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Though I tend to do something rather along the lines of vif (using evil's defun text-object, or evil-treesitter if that's what you prefer) I tried what you indicate and it does work here…
So, could you be a bit more precise in what you're trying to do and how it fails? (a file example, trying without other packages than evil, etc.)
If I understand what you're describing, your point is on the first line of a function (not necessarily at the end). You press V to go into (line) visual mode, and then $%. And that's not working?
When I do that, I do wind up with the entire function selected as I'd expect. FWIW, I'm using evil mode as configured by Spacemacs, and I tested it out in a random Go file I had open. It looks like Spacemacs does add a bunch of extra packages in their evil layer*, but I checked and % is bound to evil-jump-item from the evil package.
* Not to be confused with their evil lair.
You can select in one go in GNU Emacs. You can bind this to some shortcut.
(defun select-func-at-point ()
(interactive)
(let (bounds pos1 pos2 mything)
(setf bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'defun))
(setf pos1 (car bounds))
(setf pos2 (cdr bounds))
(set-mark pos1)
(goto-char pos2)))
Fixed by changing major mode. It seems typescript-ts-mode didn't work well with tsx files, so switched to tsx-ts-mode (after upgrading https://github.com/llemaitre19/jtsx)