Quick Jump To File

VS Code extension that extends Go to Definition for string path references like ./foo/bar or /foo/bar.

How It Works

Place the cursor inside a string path and use the standard Go to Definition action:

• Relative links such as ./foo/bar are resolved from the current file.
• Root-relative links such as /foo/bar are resolved from the workspace root or configured search paths.
• If the resolved target is a directory, the extension looks for configured index file names inside that directory.
• File matching is based on the filename part before the first dot.

Examples for ./foo/bar:

• bar wins over bar.ts and bar.component.ts
• bar.ts wins over bar.component.ts
• bar.ts and bar.js are returned together so VS Code can show its standard choice UI
• If bar is a folder, files like bar/index.ts are resolved through the configured index names

Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• quickJumpToFile.searchPaths: directories used for links that start with /. Default is ["/"], which means the workspace root.
• quickJumpToFile.indexFileNames: base names used when the target path is a directory. Default is ["index"].
• quickJumpToFile.ignoredFilePatterns: regex patterns applied only to the final filename. Matching files are excluded from results.

Example:

{
  "quickJumpToFile.searchPaths": ["src", "public"],
  "quickJumpToFile.indexFileNames": ["index", "main"],
  "quickJumpToFile.ignoredFilePatterns": ["\\.test\\..*$"]
}

Notes

• Ignore patterns are checked only against the final file name, not parent directories.
• The extension works through the standard definition flow, so Ctrl+Click, F12, and related VS Code actions use the same resolver.