TypeScript Import Path Alias

Question

I am currently working on a TypeScript application which is comprised of multiple Node modules written in TypeScript, that are installed into the node_modules d

Answer 1

So after reading your comment, I realized I misunderstood your question! If you want to control the paths from an imported package's perspective, just use set the main property of your package.json to a file that properly represents the object graph of your module.

{
  "main": "common-utils/dist/es2015/index.js"
}

If you're attempting to control the import paths from a project's perspective, what you're looking for is TypeScript 2's new path mapping feature for module resolution. You can enable path mapping by configuring your tsconfig.json as follows:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "paths": {
      "angular2/*": ["../path/to/angular2/*"],
      "local/*": ["../path/to/local/modules/*"]
    }
  }
}

Then, in your TypeScript files, you can import the modules like this:

import { bootstrap } from 'angular2/bootstrap';
import { module } from 'local/module';

For more details about the Path Mapping feature in TypeScript 2 see this Github issue.

In your case, I think the following configuration should work:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "paths": {
      "common-utils/utils/*": ["./node_modules/common-utils/dist/es2015/utils/*"]
    }
  }
}