Consider is aliasing paths for in-project and cross-project imports in `tsconfig` for brevity, in place of using relative "../../../modules"

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Original suggestion is by @aaanh and was made here

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Hello, I think maybe something that we should consider is aliasing paths for in-project and cross-project imports in tsconfig for brevity, in place of using relative "../../../modules"

Note that it's important to prepend a symbol so that we avoid possible circular import issues

Before

// project_foo/module_foo.ts

import { SomeComponent } from "../../project_bar/module_bar"

After

// project_foo/module_foo.ts

import { SomeComponent } from "@project_bar/module_bar"

TS docs for reference:

• https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#paths

An example of this can be found here:

• https://github.com/aaanh/homepage/blob/0bba458ca1d7b179f9fcda13684552c269082f2c/tsconfig.json#L20-L22

Originally posted by @aaanh in #339 (comment)