From vue 3.5.0 on, types for $t, $d, etc. are no longer recognised correctly

[pindab0ter]

Reporting a bug?

From Vue 3.5.0 onwards, the type definitions from vue-i18n no longer display correctly in both PHPStorm 2015.1.3 and VSCode 1.102.0. In my testing I have used the reproduction minimal started with all dependencies updated to their most recent versions as of writing, except for vue.

Situation with "vue": "3.4.38":

Situation with "vue": "3.5.0" (same with 3.5.0-alpha.1):

Expected behavior

See previous

Reproduction

https://github.com/pindab0ter/vitejs-vite-gfrx6w

The latest commit is with the earliest stable version causing the issue ("vue": "3.5.0"). The commit before that is in a state with the expected behavior ("vue": "3.4.38").

System Info

System:
    OS: macOS 15.5
    CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Pro
    Memory: 155.53 MB / 16.00 GB
    Shell: 4.0.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/fish
  Binaries:
    Node: 24.4.1 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
    npm: 11.4.2 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
    pnpm: 10.13.1 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pnpm
    bun: 1.2.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/bun
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 138.0.7204.158
    Safari: 18.5
  npmPackages:
    @vitejs/plugin-vue: ^6.0.0 => 6.0.0
    vite: ^7.0.5 => 7.0.5
    vue: 3.5.0 => 3.5.0
    vue-i18n: ^11.1.11 => 11.1.11
    vue-tsc: ^3.0.3 => 3.0.3

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[juntaosun]

+1，Starting from vue-i18n version 12, it is completely unusable.
vue-i18n $t('')

[starNGC2237]

same，Webstorm，Vue 3.5.18，Vue-i18n 11.1.11

[BobbieGoede]

WebStorm is using an older version of @vue/language-server, configuring it to use the latest version may resolve type issues, see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-73932/vue-language-server-3.0.0-Support

I'm not sure whether the same applies to PHPStorm, but if it too uses an older version of Vue Language Server, then types may not work as expected.