Suggestion

@Andarist thank you so much for fixing #14148, however, it doesn't work if we modify the code so the array is part of the desired type:

type B = {}[]
declare const goToTypeDefinitionOnMe: B

{} can also be literal, like string union. It displays the type definition B only if it is not an empty object.

STR

Go to type definition on goToTypeDefinitionOnMe in vscode.

Actual behavior

It reveals only lib.d.ts Array definitions.

Expected behavior

It should primarily reveal type B. Like as it does with the following code:

type B = { foo }[]
declare const goToTypeDefinitionOnMe: B

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Of course, I faced this problem in more complicated examples. However I decided to simply the case here.

I understand that in some cases, unfortunately, information of the target type (e.g. string union) is lost. However I tried to debug here https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/2623fe7049cfd837552c1dfab0b3c4687f0ec8a2/src/services/goToDefinition.ts#L444 and I saw that resolvedType actually has resolvedType.aliasSymbol.declarations[0] which is what I'm looking for (it points to type B)! So as I understand we can improve behavior in the following case, right?

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go to type definition on array types still point to array from lib.d.ts

✅ Viability Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.