diff --git a/data/tags/paths.md b/data/tags/paths.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26cac14 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/tags/paths.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +question: How to use tsconfig paths? +keywords: + - "paths" + - "baseUrl" + - "magic" +--- + +The `paths` and `baseUrl` compiler options don't cause any remapping of imports paths, they only inform TS of existing mappings, which you'll have to setup with some other tool. + +`baseUrl` is a pretty well-supported option (e.g. using the `NODE_PATH` environment variable with node or `resolve.modules` with webpack). +`paths` can be trickier to setup, (see [this](https://nodejs.org/api/packages.html#packages_subpath_imports)), and you may find it to not be worth the effort. \ No newline at end of file