2 years ago

Absolute file paths can help organize the imports in your TypeScript projects by improving the way import locations are fetched by the compiler. This can become quite complex to manage when you have to import modules from their relative path in which the code is executed.

An absolute path in TypeScript is the full path starting from the root of the operating file system up until the working directory.

If you want to make use of absolute file paths in your TypeScript app then you need to update the tsconfig.json file which you can find at the root of your TypeScript project.

As you can see configuring TypeScript with a baseUrl and paths in the tsconfig.json of your TypeScript compiler options can simplify the way you import modules without using relative paths.