Suggestion: from ... import

[louy]

So one of the tiny silliest things when writing in typescript is that completion for import statements.
The ES6 spec suggests that import statements should look like this:

import someFunc from './someFunc';

That spec was apparently designed to be an alternative to var someFunc = require('./someFunc');. They clearly didn't have autocompletion in mind, which is one of the best features in TS.

My suggestion is introducing a new syntax to import files in Typescript that better suites the purposes of the language.

from './someFunc' import someFunc;

And the same thing should apply to "export from" statements.

from './someFile' export *;

In fact this issue is so annoying it got mentioned in this year's //build/ conf.

[DanielRosenwasser]

We understand it can be a pain, and we've gotten this request a few times now:

• from 'x' import { y } #5029
• Request for alternative import syntax to improve auto-complete experience #2371
• Small change in 'import' #4880

As I replied elsewhere:

While the import syntax doesn't lend well to intellisense/completion, I don't think it would be appropriate to deviate from ES6.

As @danquirk suggests in #2371 (comment), our IDE experience should compensate for this problem using something like snippets.

[louy]

I'm sorry I haven't seen those earlier. Reading your comments there I think I get why it's the case. We should probably request this in ES7 or something.
Cheers!