Copilot Tips: tsconfig

Bobby Galli
Working Dev’s Hero
1 min readJul 3, 2023

Use Copilot Chat to Remove Comments

GitHub Copilot Tips & Tricks: tsconfig

Video 🎥

Check out the following YouTube video to learn how to remove comments from auto-generated tsconfig.json files.

Remove Comments Using Copilot Chat

Summary 📝

1. TypeScript developers often receive a TS config file with comments in the JSON.

2. To remove the comments, developers need the Visual Studio Code Insider’s build.

3. They also need to install GitHub Copilot Chat and Copilot Nightly.

4. By using Copilot, developers can ask it to remove the comments from the config file.

5. This tip allows developers to have a cleaner TS config file.

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7. Conclusion: This tip provides a quick and efficient way for TypeScript developers to remove comments from their TS config files, resulting in a cleaner and more organized codebase.

Memorable quote: “You can take this text, open chat, and just ask Copilot to remove the comments, cool!

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Bobby Galli
Working Dev’s Hero

Software developer at BugSplat. Big friendly giant, golf ball whacker guy, goofball, lover of tacos.