# Intellisense not working for dev'd package

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/intellisense-not-working-for-devd-package/85522>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Tags:** languageserver, intellisense\
**Created:** [August 9, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/intellisense-not-working-for-devd-package/85522 "2022-08-09T08:23:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jmair/32/35117_2.png) [@jmair](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jmair)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/intellisense-not-working-for-devd-package/85522/1 "2022-08-09T08:23:47Z")

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I have some issues with my custom package exported functions and types not being available with intellisense when writing a script which uses that package.

I have separated my code into two separate environments, one is the package which contains most of the code, and one is a sort of scripts environment, which I use to write the code to dev the package. The approximate tree is:

```txt
Package
├── Project.toml
├── scripts
│ ├── main.jl
│ └── Project.toml
└── src
    └── Package.jl

```

Inside the `scripts/Project.toml` environment, I have added the main package as a dependency and then “dev”'d that package. If in `scripts/main.jl` I use the package:

```julia
using Package

my_obj = CustomStruct()
...

```

(Assuming `CustomStruct` is exported in `src/Package.jl`)  
The code can be run in the REPL, and I can access all exported tokens there with the tab complete and there are no errors.

The issue is that when writing in `scripts/main.jl`, despite having set my visual studio code environment to `scripts/Project.toml`, I have no intellisense at all for the `Package` package, and it does not show the custom exported types or functions.

Is there any thing I can do to fix this, or do I have to adopt a different workflow?

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**Author:** ![jmair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jmair/32/35117_2.png) [@jmair](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jmair)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/intellisense-not-working-for-devd-package/85522/2 "2022-08-09T10:35:51Z")

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I have been experimenting with this workflow, and I have switched to using a VS code workspace, instead of just opening a single folder. I have opened the `scripts` subfolder as a separate folder inside the same workspace and it seems to work now, but does not reindex the package when updates are made (like new functions etc).

Is there a way to have the language server update when the dev’d package changes?