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Support setting baseUrl to root directory #7755

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@robertvansteen robertvansteen commented Sep 30, 2019

This PR adds support for setting the baseUrl in tsconfig.json/jsconfig.json to the root directory (.).

Initially I planned to add support for aliases but that turned out to be quite difficult due to difference in implementation between webpack and TypeScript. Instead this PR aims to facility the most requested option to import files with their absolute path (as seen from root) like src/components/Button.js. (#6850)

We don't want users to import from any directory other than src so the implementation maps a baseUrl of . to an alias that transforms src to the absolute appSrc directory. This should prevent users from doing something like import { something } from 'library/utils.js'.

  • Update error message to communicate that . is allowed as baseUrl

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Are there any known issues with the CI right now? Some of the failures (FetchError: request to http://localhost:4873/prefix failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4873) seem unrelated to the changes in this PR.

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mrmckeb commented Oct 1, 2019

Trying to fix CI.

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mrmckeb commented Oct 1, 2019

@rovansteen So at this stage we're not allowing people to configure aliases - maybe we can talk about that this week some more.

I personally don't like aliases, but a lot of people love them... so it would be cool to get them in.

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@mrmckeb I agree, but I haven't had the time yet to properly research how aliases work in TypeScript as I have never used them personally.

However this PR shouldn't get in the way of any future work on proper alias support, we just use aliases behind the scenes to prevent users from importing from any other directory than src.

@mrmckeb mrmckeb modified the milestones: 3.3, 3.2 Oct 1, 2019
@mrmckeb mrmckeb merged commit 7e2b6b1 into facebook:master Oct 2, 2019
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