React intellisense in Visual Studio Code

Now that typings (and for that matter tsd) are both no longer recommended. I found the one line answer for my situation was just to include type definitions from npm with the command

npm i @types/react --save-dev

intellisense picked up the new definitions for me immediately in Visual Studio Code, but perhaps for someone else you may need to restart your VSCode window.

I'm not sure if it's relevant but my app was created with create-react-app with the latest version.

You need to add jsconfig.json to the root of your workspace

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/javascript#_javascript-projects-jsconfigjson

[Note: you can even leave the jsconfig.json file empty]