Add {root} helper for tsconfig.json (for avoiding multiple ../../) · Issue #37227 · microsoft/TypeScript (original) (raw)

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helper {root} {workspace} in tsconfig.json

Suggestion

I have the following project structure

tsconfig.json
>folder
   >folder
     >folder
       tsconfig.json => 
         {
             "extends": "../../../tsconfig.json"
              ... 
         }

I didn't find any path-helper that can replace "../../../" to {root} where the root is the current workspace folder

Use Cases

Avoiding using "../../../" because of this is a headache for refactoring

Examples

// folder/folder/folder/tsconfig.json { "extends": "{rootOrWorkspaceFolder}/tsconfig.json" "paths": { "root/": ["{rootOrWorkspaceFolder}/"] } }

Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.