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How to Highlight TypeScript TS Errors With Pretty Popup Overlay Messages in VSCode IDE
Jul 2, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video I will show you a
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TypeScript VS code extension which
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allows you to uh significantly remove uh
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sorry improve the highlighting of error
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messages which occurs inside your
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TypeScript files. So as I hover onto
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this it will show you the entire error
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in detail that type number is not
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assignable to type string and in detail
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you can actually see what sort of error
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is there. So there is this extension
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that you can install here. So go to the
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extension and simply type for this
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extension which is pretty ts errors
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pretty typescript errors. So this is
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actually the extension here. It's almost
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used by 1 million developers. So simply
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click the install button and enable this
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extension. So what does it do? It
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actually makes your TypeScript errors
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more prettier and more human readable
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form. Now if you make any sort of error
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inside your TypeScript file, it will
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highlight with this red swig error
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message. Apart from that, if you hover
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onto that, it will also show you this
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nice little pop-up message which will
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explain you what this error message is
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all about and it will tell you more
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information why this error message is
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taking place. So the expected types
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comes from property name which is
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declared here on type user. So type
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number is not assignable to type string.
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So it simply tells you that name is of
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type string here. So that's why you
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provided a number value. So here we need
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to change it to string. So in this way
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you can fix your error messages again on
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age as well. It will tell you that
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entire thing.
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So because if you don't have this
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extension the default behavior of error
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highlighting is very bad. So if you do
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the highlighting for error, if you don't
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have this extension then it's
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comes with a default which doesn't
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provide you with much information.
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So I found this extension to be very
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useful. So you can install this if you
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want to critify or make your human
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TypeScript errors more in human readable
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form. So
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also check out my website
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uh which contains thousands of tools.
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