no-relative-imports.md

Pattern: Use of relative import

Issue: -

Description

Do not use relative paths when importing external modules or ES6 import declarations. The advantages of removing all relative paths from imports is that:

• The import name will be consistent across all files and subdirectories so searching for usages is much easier.
• Moving source files to different folders will not require you to edit your import statements.
• 3. It will be possible to copy and paste import lines between files regardless of the file location.
• 4. version control diffs will be simplified by having overall fewer edits to the import lines.

Option allow-siblings can be passed to allow relative imports for files in the same or nested folders.

Further Reading

• TSLint - no-relative-imports