baseUrl definition in tsconfig.json leads to compilation error

[Wassap124]

I've been experiencing weird import bugs,
despite defining baseUrl in my tsconfig.json (as shown below), imports don't work.
I am not using webpack, babel, etc. (That's why I am opening this issue, the others I've seen were problems regarding webpack and such).

// tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es6",                         
    "module": "commonjs",                    
    "lib": ["es6","dom"],                    
    "sourceMap": true,                     
    "outDir": "./dist",                      
    "rootDir": "./src",                      
    "strict": true,                          
    "noImplicitAny": true,                 
    "baseUrl": "src",                        
    "esModuleInterop": true,                 
    "resolveJsonModule": true,               
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true 
  },
  "exclude": ["node_modules"]
}

//routers/games.ts
import GameController from "controllers/games";
import Router from "koa-router";

export const gamesRouter = new Router()
    .get("/", (ctx) => {
        ctx.body = GameController.getGames();
    });

// controllers/games.ts
export default class GameController {

    public static getGames = () => {
        return [];
    }
}

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├── package.json
├── src
│   ├── config.ts
│   ├── controllers
│   │   └── games.ts
│   ├── index.ts
│   └── routers
│       └── games.ts
├── tsconfig.json
├── tslint.json
└── yarn.lock 

Expected behavior:
absolute imports with src defined as root should work.
project should compile
Actual behavior:

Error: Cannot find module 'controllers/games'

[andrewbranch]

I can’t reproduce this—what you’ve shared looks right. Can you share a repo that exhibits the issue?