Failed attempts to provide IntelliSense for Node.js in Visual Studio.

Problems.md

This is a failed attempt to make require('./folder/file.js') return the exports object created by that file.

The problem is that the IntelliSense engine runs all imported files before running any user code, so I cannot create a personalized module object for each file separately. Creating a single global module object won't let me figure out what exports come from each module. (If it's possible to pass a parameter to another file, I could solve that)

vs-node-intellisense.js

function require(path) {
	if (!/.js(on?)/.test(path))
		path += '.js';
	// TODO: Get full normalized path to return the same object across files
	// TODO: Resolve paths within node_modules folders, and read JSON

	// If we've already loaded this module, return the cached exports
	if (require.cache.hasOwnProperty(path))
		return require.cache[path];

	intellisense.logMessage("Preparing to load " + path);
	// Create a module global for the remote code to use
	var module = window.module = { filename: path };

	// Create and cache the module's exports object, even
	// if the remote code overwrites module.exports.
	require.cache[path] = module.exports = {};
	Object.defineProperty(module, 'exports', {
		enumerable: true,
		get: function () { return require.cache[path]; },
		set: function (val) { require.cache[path] = val; }
	});

	// Load the script so that it will run with its personalized module object
	var s = document.createElement('script');
	s.src = path;
	s.onload = function () {
		// This callback never runs
		intellisense.logMessage("Loaded " + path);
		// TODO: Delete any new globals the script created
	};
	document.head.appendChild(s);

	return require.cache[path];
}
require.cache = {};