How to set up imports path aliases for (Angular)
Abdullah Al-Mamun
Posted on May 19, 2024
Angular components name becomes unreadable also non maintainable for larger project. Usually we use relative paths to import components like this ("../../../something"
), which is not suitable for project that has many nested routes.
import { JobInformationService } from '../../../services/job-information.service';
import { ControlBarComponent } from '../../components/control-bar/control-bar.component';
We can solve this problem by defining path aliases, we can configure this in tsconfig.json
file in the root directory.
In the compilerOptions section we can add two things
add this line:
"baseUrl": "./src",
then also add these, here choose the path and name based on your projects requirement. You can add as many as you want.
"paths": {
"@components/*" : ["app/components/*"],
"@pages/*" : ["app/pages/*"],
}
Add this to your tsconfig.json
file
"compilerOptions": {
"baseUrl": "./src",
"paths": {
"@components/*" : ["app/components/*"],
"@pages/*" : ["app/pages/*"],
}
},
Now you can import your components, services, etc. directly using @definedname
, for example you can now use like this
import { JobInformationService } from '@services/job-information.service';
import { ControlBarComponent } from '@components/control-bar/control-bar.component';
Posted on May 19, 2024
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