Import intellisense for custom package is not working in vs code

Hi i am creating 2 simple test projects where project A is a custom NPM package and project B consume it. The issue is that there is no import intellisense.

My folder structure looks like this:

project-a/src/index.ts

export function MRTAdd(v1: number, v2: number): number {
    return v1 + v2;
}

project-a/package.json

{
  "name": "npm-project-a",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "dist/index.js",
  "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
  "module": "commonjs",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "tsc"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "lodash": "^4.17.21"
  }
}

project-a/tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es2016",
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "module": "commonjs",
    "declaration": true,
    "declarationMap": true,
    "outDir": "./dist",
    "skipLibCheck": true
  }
}

Next i ran npm build which gives me the tsc build inside dist folder

Next step i did is to npm link inside root of project-a, and then in project-b i npm link npm-project-a

Now that i see it is install inside node_modules, then when i tried typing MRTAdd i see this

Although typing the import manually works

Please advise!