Organize imports: add an option to put all absolute paths after node_modules ones

[zbeyens]

Feature Request

Add a configuration option that to sort all the absolute paths (i.e. with baseUrl = /src in jsconfig.json) after all the node_modules paths.

Reason

More and more people use alias to avoid long relative paths. It's a common practice to have first the third-party imports, then the absolute paths, and finally the relative ones.

[m1heng]

same demand here.
We have "@/*": ["*"], in tsconfig.json, which allows us to import project wide common modules. But with current sorting, @/common/components would be on first of all imports which is against original sort logic.

[Mikoz93]

@zbeyens @m1heng Is there any info on whether this is going to be supported?

[matheusmb]

Any updates? It would be great to have this feature

[medihack]

Oh yes, the current way makes this feature useless. Absolute paths are so common these days.

[danielpza]

Expected sorting

• global node_modules imports
• global project imports (defined by path aliases)
• relative imports

But with path aliases (depending on the configuration), global project imports will appear first before the node_modules imports. Right now there's no distinction between global node_modules and global project imports.

tsconfig.json:

{
  "baseUrl": "./",
  "paths": { "@/*": ["./src/*"], },
}

file system:

.
├── src
│   ├── app.js
│   ├── components
│   │   ├── Button.js
│   │   └── Home.js
│   └── shared
│       ├── log.js
│       └── utils.js
└── tsconfig.json

Home.js expected order:

import React from 'react';
import { log } from '@/shared/log';
import Button from './Button';

Instead the result is:

import { log } from '@/shared/log';
import React from 'react';
import Button from './Button';

@/shared/log will be aliased after compilation to ../shared/log, so I expect it to be after react which is a node_module import

[danielpza]

@RyanCavanaugh is there any feedback I can help provide?

[tycobbb]

same problem here, but i usually use $ the absolute-like module resolution. can't really use this feature unless it sorts based on the expanded paths, or is configurable.

[JakeBelanger]

Same request here! Has anyone found an equivalent plugin?

[danielpza]

I'm using prettier with this plugin https://github.com/IanVS/prettier-plugin-sort-imports it's pretty good