Import Paths -- Always relative?

[Gazzini]

Do all imports have to be relative?

I prefer this: import { bar } from '~/services/foo'

to this: import { bar } from '../../services/foo'

In Serverless Framework, I accomplish it like this: tsconfig.json

"compilerOptions": {
  "baseUrl": "./src",                 <or lib, or whatever, doesn't matter>
  "rootDir": ".",
  "paths": {
      "~/*": [
          "*"
      ]
  }
}

webpack.config.js

const path = require("path");

module.exports = {
    resolve: {
        extensions: [".mjs", ".js", ".jsx", ".json", ".ts", ".tsx"],
        alias: {
            '~': path.resolve(__dirname, 'src')
        }
    },

Thanks for making this framework, love the direction, and I'm excited to try it out.

[dougmoscrop]

Hi! Serverless Cloud only performs transpiling of your sources, it doesn't actually use tsc - that said, I think we could probably accomodate ~ as a custom prefix for saying 'relative to the base of the cloud project', or maybe 'relative to the nearest package.json' ? relatively easily. There's a discussion underway here https://github.com/serverless/cloud/discussions/72 regarding monorepo support, in case you're interested.

[Gazzini]

Thanks @dougmoscrop, I think that adding ~ as a custom prefix would solve my problem perfectly.

I don't have an opinion on if it's relative to the nearest package.json or the root of the cloud project, as they're the same in my case.