Selecting typescript version does not work in a npm workspace

[birgersp]

Type: Bug

In a simple VSCode workspace, where the npm packages are also in a (npm) workspace...

Layout:

someproject/
    server/
        package.json
        src/
            main.ts
    package.json
    myworkspace.code-workspace

// someproject/package.json
{"workspaces":["client","server"], "private":true}

// someproject/server/package.json
{"name":"server","version":"0.0.1","devDependencies":{"typescript":"5.4.2"}}

// someproject/someproject.code-workspace
{
    "folders": [
        {
            "path": "server"
        }
    ],
}

I can't properly select the typescript version.

Initially, there is no choice for the "5.4.2" version that the "server" package uses:

That's fine, I'll add it to the settings:

Now it's there:

But still, VSCode doesn't actually use 5.4.2:

I suspect VSCode doesn't actually find the proper Typescript version, residing at "server/../node_modules/ ...", because it doesn't follow the path properly.

Please investigate.

VS Code version: Code 1.87.2 (863d2581ecda6849923a2118d93a088b0745d9d6, 2024-03-08T15:14:59.643Z) OS version: Linux x64 6.6.10-76060610-generic Modes:

System Info

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[mjbvz]

Did you select the workspace version in the version selector? The setting is needed to discover a server outside of the current workspace but we don't switch to it automatically

[birgersp]

Thanks for the follow-up. Sorry, it was an error on my end, my bad.