jQuery intellisense in VS Code

Most of the blog postings are now outdated, as we finally have automatic type acquisition with version 1.8+ – you no longer need to install the typings yourself.

I recommend reading the official documentation, its always up to date: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/javascript

If you use npm and have a package.json in your project and jQuery is listed there, it should already work.

If you do not use npm, you can create the file jsconfig.json in the project root with the following content and you are good to go:

{
    "typeAcquisition": {
        "include": [
            "jquery"
        ]
    }
}