[NETBEANS-5221] Excessive notifications: node.js not found, TypeScript support disabled

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Next
• Fix Version/s: 12.4
• Component/s: lsp, platform - Notifications
• Labels: pull-request-available

Environment

Windows 10 64-bit, OpenJDK 11.0.6

• Assignee: Jan Lahoda
• Reporter: Michal Koscielny
• Created: 07/Jan/21 13:47
• Updated: 01/Apr/21 10:28
• Resolved: 01/Apr/21 10:28

Description

In some of my PHP projects I have package.json and package-lock.json files in the root directory but I don't have node.js installed. In this scenario I get bombarded with baloon notifications saying "node.js not found, TypeScript support disabled" every time I open the project or save any file. After a while my notification log is filled with lots of such notifications and they distract me needlessly:

This didn't happen in Netbeans 12.2 but started happening in the dev builds so this change must be recent. I'm now using 
Build dev-1198c6642612764150ad3d0911bf8f437eef6601 dated at 2021-01-04.

There should be a way to silence or get rid of such notifications entirely since they are useless in such scenarios. Because there are node.js config files present in the project doesn't mean I have to install node.js on my computer just to not be nagged by Netbeans notifications - for example, other developers might be responsible for node.js stuff while I'm working with other technologies in the same project.

I know I can hide info notifications with the filter but it is not ideal because I don't want to miss other notifications which may be important to me.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2850