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Setup path aliases w/ React + Vite + TS

Alexander Kim on April 30, 2022

Out of the box vite doesn't provide "@" path alias to src, so we have to manually setup it. I suppose you're using Vite preset for react-ts. Steps...
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Anna •

Does this work for nested paths? I'm trying to do something like this, and the nested folder isn't working for me:

{ "compilerOptions": { "baseUrl": ".", ... "paths": { "*": ["src/*", "node_modules/*"], "components/*": ["src/components/*"], "containers/*": ["src/containers/*"], "pages/*": ["src/constants/*"], "store/*": ["src/store/*"], "types/*": ["src/types/*"], "NestedFolder/*": [ "src/components/NestedFolder/*" ], } }, "include": ["src/**/*", "*"] }
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Hari Shekhar •

Hi @anna
For multiple aliases, you can follow this answer on stackoverflow.
stackoverflow.com/a/75201776/3144344

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Jonas Tolentino • • Edited

Thank you very much...

but what if I want to use it in the pattern

import Container from '@components/Container'

how would the configuration look?

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Guilherme Soldateli •

So helpful, thanks!

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Rahmat Sulistio •

how we can add auto suggestions for VS Code?

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celedonio2151 •

Does anyone know how to add auto suggestions? Auto suggestions work with javascript for importing, but not with typescript?

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Thales Bruno •

Thanks for that ❤️

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Miguel Angel Muñoz •

Nice! Thank you so. much I was blocked with this error.

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Petar Kolev •

Wow, thanks a lot Alex! It sure did the work done <3

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Amit Mondal • • Edited

This really helped, Thanks

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pjosxyz •

Awesome, worked a charm :)

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IamSoPradaYou •

Thank you so much! That really helped me, spent half of my day trying to resolve problems with using aliases.