stevencl

When I worked on the .Net framework at Microsoft we would run usability studies on many of the APIs well before we shipped them. It was always enlightening seeing how professional programmers use your API. We would assume that people would approach the API with a specific mental model for example, only to find that they thought about the API quite differently. I wrote an article in 2004 about how we approached API usability at the time: http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/measuring-api-usability/18440...

The great thing about doing usability studies on APIs is that it is easy to mock up a prototype of the API that people can start to code against. The API doesn't have to work but you get to see how people react to the names of classes, methods, parameters etc. I used to blog about API usability and what we were learning here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/stevencl/tag/api-usability/

There is a group of researchers and practitioners currently working on API usability. Some good links here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/apiusability.html

Did you add the typescript definition file for node and reference it?

Download the node.d.ts file from the DefinitelyTyped repo https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped then add that file to the folder containing your node app.

Then in the file you are using the http object reference the .d.ts file by adding the following to the top of the file:

/// <reference path="node.d.ts" />

After that you should get intellisense in the file.