Absolute imports don't work.

[popham]

Cap'n Proto schemas admit absolute imports that search command-line-parametrized include directories, e.g. capnp compile -ots -I /path/to/reusable/stuff/ some-schema.capnp. I've got an example repo: https://github.com/popham/ts-absolute-import-example (npm run compile generates). Currently my import using Lib = "/lib-file.capnp" gets mapped to import { A } from ".//lib-file.capnp".

I ask because I've been implementing a plugin targeting Flow, but it turns out that emitting TypeScript and plain JavaScript demands only a tiny bit of extra code. Unfortunately, I don't know much of anything about TypeScript, so I have no idea how absolute imports could be supported in this ecosystem. Under Flow I think that I can hack them together with name_mapper under .flowconfig and babel-plugin-module-resolver. My favorite option currently is some sort of "emit includable" option that generates an index file (I've been working to avoid an index blob by default because I expect it to spoil dead code elimination tools). I'm not at all fond of my favorite, however.