How to disable automatic import statements in VsCode October 2017

Question

The latest version of VS Code installed a few days ago (the October 2017 update) keeps adding all kinds of strange import statements to the top of the .ts code file.

Answer 1

As of August 2018 (1.25), the accepted answer doesn't always work.

Instead, add this line to your folder-specific setting.

{  "typescript.preferences.importModuleSpecifier": "relative" }

Don't figure what's going on here, but those automatic path changes never happen in my environment.