Feature Request: Live Type Logging for TypeScript

[imsahsol]

Issue description or question

It would be a great addition to Quokka, to have Live Type Logging as well. Similar to what's been already implemented in Quokka for Live Logging of the values. Below is an example from TypeScriptLang playground, which displays their implementation for this feature:

I was wondering if is there a way for this to be implemented for Quokka.

[smcenlly]

Unfortunately this is not something that would be easy to add to Quokka.

Quokka only knows about runtime values and runtime types, while the TypeScriptLang playground is getting the type information from the language service. By default, Quokka effectively discards all type information and type errors when it runs your TypeScript code; this is one of the many things that Quokka does to run your code as quickly as possible.

We would not be able to implement this feature without some major changes to how Quokka integrates with TypeScript so I don't think it will be something that we decide on for our short to mid-term roadmap as we have some other features that we think will be more valuable.

[satvikpendem]

@SahandSoltanieh This already exists in VSCode if you use it. The feature is called Inlay Hints and works for any language that's supported.

Setting: typescript.inlayHints.variableTypes.enabled

There are other types of hints too, check out the link I posted.