How to avoid using relative path imports (/../../../redux/action/action1) in create-react-app

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Prem picture Prem · Jul 20, 2017 · Viewed 30.3k times · Source

I've been using create-react-app package for creating a react website. I was using relative paths throughout my app for importing components, resources, redux etc. eg, import action from '../../../redux/action

I have tried using module-alis npm package but with no success. Is there any plugin that I can use to import based on the folder name or alias i.e. an absolute path?

Eg., import action from '@redux/action' or import action from '@resource/css/style.css'

Answer

Dan Abramov picture Dan Abramov · Jul 20, 2017

Create a file called .env in the project root and write there:

NODE_PATH=src

Then restart the development server. You should be able to import anything inside src without relative paths.

Note I would not recommend calling your folder src/redux because now it is confusing whether redux import refers to your app or the library. Instead you can call your folder src/app and import things from app/....

We intentionally don't support custom syntax like @redux because it's not compatible with Node resolution algorithm.

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