Update 2018

VS Code now handles this natively via a jsconfig.json and the JavaScript Language Service.

Create the file jsconfig.json at your project root and make sure to set checkJs to true:

Creating a JS Config file, allows Visual Studio to treat the folder as an Explicit Project. Without it, JS files opened in VS Code are treated as independent units, and there is no common project context between any two files.

Example:

{  "compilerOptions": {    "baseUrl": "./src",    "checkJs": true,    "jsx": "react"  }}

Code Action / Quick Fix

Missing modules will show up with a Code Action (AKA "Quick Fix") with an option to import. You can click on the lightbulb 💡 or use Ctrl + .

Auto Imports / IntelliSense

Auto Imports will show you available components as you type and import them when selected

Further Reading

• Visual Studio Code Automatic Imports
• How to add jsconfig.json to existing vscode project w/o breaking it

Double check that the extension is enabled by navigating to Extensions > searching for "Auto Import". You should see the following:

I solved this issue by opening single project folder /project/my-project in vscode....
Seems all the .js configs are auto-configured this way.

Before this, I had opened /projects folder with multiple projects inside, and the imports suggestion and other stuff was not working at all.