Vim permanent syntax highlighting

Question

I'm using :set syntax=javascript whenever I work on TypeScript files for example. I want to set the syntax automatically based on my file type. Now here's the thing, I've done it before by adding: au BufNewFile,BufRead,BufReadPost *.ts set syntax=javascript to my ~/.vimrc file, however, it doesn't seem to be working anymore.

Here is the contents of my .vimrc file. Is there a reason why this wouldn't work?

colorscheme atom-dark-256
set number
set autoindent
set guifont=monaco:h12
set expandtab
set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab

au BufNewFile,BufRead,BufReadPost *.ts set syntax=javascript
au BufNewFile,BufRead,BufReadPost *.handlebars set syntax=HTML
au BufNewFile,BufRead,BufReadPost *.twig set syntax=HTML
au BufNewFile,BufRead,BufReadPost *.theme set syntax=PHP

I'm sure it used to work just fine, but it just stopped for some reason. Any ideas? I'm using MacVim if that helps?

Vim permanent syntax highlighting

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