TypeScript: Adding regions in Visual Studio 2017

In this article I’ll share small detail how to include regions when we work in TypeScript in Visual Studio code.

Background: I was working with one of my SharePoint Framework Extension (SPFX) client side web part. I am using Visual Studio 2017.  While working in development environment there is lots of commented code since we are still developing and testing.

By default, I couldn’t add region as we do in Visual studio 2017 for C# programming. I want all my commented Code in one region in my .ts file. so that it won’t be visible all the time.

Since I am new to TypeScript I was not sure how to add regions, so googling… and then found that in Visual Studio marketplace there is tool available called “JavaScript Regions”.  This tool is freely available and for Visual Studio 2017.

Installing the “JavaScript Regions” :

Log in to Visual Studio Marketplace https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/, in the search box search for “JavaScript” as shown in below figure 1

Figure 1: Visual Studio Marketplace – JavaScript Regions search

Or we can directly also go with the URL – https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.JavaScriptRegions#overview

Once we are on the above URL, we can download the “JavaScript Regions” and it will download “JavaScript Regions v1.1.3” Microsoft Visual Studio Extension (.vsix) file.

Double click on the downloaded file it will ask for products for which we want to install this extension as shown in below figure 2:

Figure 2:Visual Studio Marketplace – Downloading JavaScript Regions tool

Since I am using Visual studio Community 2017 edition it shown me to install extension for it as shown in above figure 3.

Figure 3: Visual Studio Marketplace – Installing JavaScript Regions

Once clicked on “Install” button it will start installing as shown below figure 4.

Figure 4: VSIX Installer – Installing JavaScript Regions

On successful installation, “Install Complete” dialog will appear as shown in below figure 5.

Figure 5: VSIX installer – Successfully installation of ‘JavaScript Regions’ tool

Restarted the visual studio and it worked like charm. I Visual studio in my typescript file a “region” snippet is coming in IntelliSense as shown in below figure 6

Figure 6: Visual Studio – TypeScript file – region snippet in IntelliSense

Once I hit the tab on the “region” IntelliSense it adds the region snippet as

// #region <name of my region>

// #endregion

Finally, happily I added my commented code in region 🙂 This is very good tool to simply adding regions in my TypeScript file in Visual Studio so shared.

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