I'm currently using create-react-app to bootstrap one of my projects. Basically, I'm trying to set up paths in tsconfig.json by adding these to the default tsconfig.json generated by create-react-app:
"baseUrl": "./src",
"paths": {
"interfaces/*": [
"common/interfaces/*",
],
"components/*": [
"common/components/*",
],
},
However, every time I run yarn start which basically runs react-scripts start, it deletes my changes and generates the default configurations again.
How can I tell create-react-app to use my custom configs?
I was able to do this by using advice from this issue.
Put the configuration options react scripts likes to remove in a separate file (e.g. paths.json) and reference it from tsconfig.json via the extends directive.
paths.json:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"baseUrl": "./src",
"paths": {
"interfaces/*": [ "common/interfaces/*"],
"components/*": [ "common/components/*"],
}
}
}
tsconfig.json
{
"extends": "./paths.json"
...rest of tsconfig.json
}
Create React App does not currently support baseUrl. However there is a workaround...to setup baseUrl for both webpack and the IDE you have to do the following:
.env file with the following code:NODE_PATH=./
tsconfig.paths.json file with the following code inside:{
"compilerOptions": {
"baseUrl": "src",
"paths": {
"src/*": ["*"]
}
}
}
tsconfig.json{
"extends": "./tsconfig.paths.json",
...
}
You can't and I am unsure when you will be able to. I have been trying to use baseUrl and paths so I can avoid relative imports but as you can see they are intentionally removing certain values. The "(yet)" is encouraging but (sigh) who knows when they will officially be supporting it. I recommend subscribing to this github issue to be alerted if/when this changes.
The following changes are being made to your tsconfig.json file:
- compilerOptions.baseUrl must not be set (absolute imports are not supported (yet))
- compilerOptions.paths must not be set (aliased imports are not supported)