[Feature] Support baseUrl without paths

[haoadoreorange]

As title said, should it work without any paths but only baseUrl ?

[raouldeheer]

Do you mean this?

[haoadoreorange]

hmm no I mean, currently tsc-alias work with paths field in tsconfig. But setting only baseUrl has similar effect, could it work with that only ?

[raouldeheer]

Right now it wouldn't work, because tsc-alias makes a list of all aliases and matches that with the imports. So when paths is empty there won't be any aliases to match so it won't find any results.

[haoadoreorange]

is that something viable ?

[justkey007]

@haoadoresorange
How setting only baseUrl has a similar effect? Are you saying that without defining the paths option in tsconfig you can use aliases using only baseUrl?

[raouldeheer]

The requested behavior is that "index" will be replaced by "${baseurl}/index". Where index can be any path in the baseurl directory.

[raouldeheer]

I've got a prototype of this feature working; I'll improve it tomorrow. Haven't fully tested it yet so I'm not sure if it's a viable solution.

[justkey007]

@raouldeheer @haoadoresorange
Thank you, the request was well understood

[ChrisChiasson]

@raouldeheer it seems like if we want baseUrl=".", so that absolute imports start with src/ we would need paths: {"src/*": "src/*"} in tsconfig.json. I was able to figure this out by taking project 16 from PR #67 and changing baseUrl and all the imports. I used project 10 for comparison. Thank you for your work on this project!