VS Code includes some very basic support for IntelliSense in tsconfig/jsconfig files. This includes providing document links for extends, files, and references in these files:
This currently requires a fair amount of code in the VS Code extension and there are bugs (for example microsoft/vscode#276592) that would require a lot more code to address
I'd love to have this logic be handled by typescript directly so that it matches exactly how tsc / ts-go works. Other editors could then also benefit from it