jsconfig-to-webpack-alias

to get webpack alias object from jsconfig path to have one source of truth

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import jsconfigToWebpackAlias from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/jsconfig-to-webpack-alias';
</script>

README

JS config top webpack alias

To support aliases in import modules declarations we need to have two almost the same configs at jsconfig.json and webpack aliases.

This module let us to have the one source of truth for aliases - jsconfig.json.

Example of jsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "commonJS",
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "paths": {
      "@/*": ["./src/*"],
      "Shared/*": ["./src/shared/*"],
    }
  },
  "exclude": ["node_modules"]
}

Install module:


npm i --save-dev jsconfig-to-webpack-alias

At webpack config:

const jsconfigToWebpackAlias = require('jsconfig-to-webpack-alias');
const jsConfig = require('./jsconfig.json');

const alias = getWebpackAliasFromJsconfig( jsConfig.compilerOptions.paths );

module.exports = {
  ...
  resolve: {
    alias,
    extensions: [
        ...
    ]
  }
}