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zalo on May 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: I spent some time exploring how to improve the UX ...

Would be nice to see Intellisense-style hover tooltips on code-blocks someday (via referencing a `.d.ts` or `.ts` file).

There might be some minimalist way to get Monaco into read-only mode for it...

eyelidlessness on May 7, 2021 [–]

This exists! But with a slightly different set of libraries than the highlighter used by the post author: remark-shiki-twoslash[1]. Shiki tokenizes using the same language definitions as VSCode, Twoslash uses the same language service.

1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/remark-shiki-twoslash

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