[Bug] Paths seems to be required but not sure why

[dborstelmann]

I don't use paths in my project, just baseUrl like so:

{
  "extends": "../../tsconfig.packages.json",
  "compilerOptions": {
    "rootDir": "src",
    "outDir": "dist",
    "baseUrl": "./src"
  }
}

I have to add a blank paths to make this work. Is this avoidable?

Doesn't work:

"plugins": [
  { "transform": "typescript-transform-paths", "useRootDirs": true },
  { "transform": "typescript-transform-paths", "useRootDirs": true, "afterDeclarations": true }
]

Works great:

"paths": {
  "*": ["*"]
},
"plugins": [
  { "transform": "typescript-transform-paths", "useRootDirs": true },
  { "transform": "typescript-transform-paths", "useRootDirs": true, "afterDeclarations": true }
]

[nonara]

Thanks for the report. That shouldn't happen, no. I recently discovered the same. It applies specifically to useRootDirs if paths isn't set.

I have it covered in the upcoming major release, but I will try to get a patch out in the next few days for you!

[dborstelmann]

Thanks for the quick response! This lib solved me running js in production tonight so it's much appreciated.

[nonara]

Quick update (It's been a busy couple of weeks!)

As memory serves, I ran into some challenges surrounding this same area of code while working on what was supposed to be another small change. All of it is sorted out in the new upcoming major version, which has some significant internal changes.

That in mind, in the mean time, I'd suggest continuing to use the workaround. I'll leave this issue open and update you as soon as the next major comes out! At that point you won't need any workarounds

[fsmaia]

https://github.com/LeDDGroup/typescript-transform-paths/blob/master/src/utils/resolve-path-update-node.ts#L39

It seems that this if statement is suppressing baseUrl resolution, which happens at resolveModuleName, right below.

I'll open a pull request trying to handle this, and then I would like to have some help identifying some other possible corner cases.

[holynewbie]

any progress ? 😂 @nonara