Cannot import .tsx file from .ts file (and vice versa)

Question

I have a project with .ts and .tsx files and I am trying to import a .tsx file from a .ts file, like so:

src/index.ts

import WriteEditor from './write_editor';

src/write_editor.tsx

import Events from './events';
import Actions from './actions';

export default class WriteEditor extends React.Component { /*...*/ }

Now TypeScript tells me

ERROR in ./src/index.ts Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './write_editor' in '/Users/luke/Projekte/writejs/code/writejs/src' @ ./src/index.ts 3:23-48 @ multi ./src/index.ts

So I tried this:

src/index.ts

import WriteEditor from './write_editor.tsx';

Now my IDE tells me not to write the extensions tsx and I get an errors in src/write_editor.tsx because TypeScript cannot find my .ts files from a .tsx file.

Then I went to rename the imports and added the .ts extensions

import Events from './events.ts';
import Actions from './actions.ts';

Now I am getting tons or errors telling me not to write extensions at all.

So how can we import tsx from ts and vice versa?

Your question mentions `write_editor.jsx` and `write_editor.tsx`. Why do you have a `.jsx` file? — cartant, Jan 15 '18 at 22:14
Have you configured Webpack to auto-append the `.ts` and `.tsx` extensions? — loganfsmyth, Jan 15 '18 at 22:49
I did, this is my webpack config https://gist.github.com/LukasBombach/38b5b1f19da819e6f4effee743162c6d — Lukas, Jan 15 '18 at 22:56

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '18 at 23:51

When you write

import WriteEditor from './write_editor';

Webpack will automatically look for

./write_editor
./write_editor.js
./write_editor.json
(And a few others)

Since you're using .ts and .tsx, you need to tell it to look for those too in your Webpack config using resolve.extensions:

{
  resolve: {
    extensions: [".js", ".json", ".ts", ".tsx"],
  },
}

Hongbo Miao · Answer 2 · 2019-08-27T17:49:46.957

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In my case, I got same error when using typescript-eslint. It is an app created by create-react-app.

The way is by adding this code in .eslintrc.js.

module.exports = {
  // ...
  settings: {
    'import/resolver': {
      'node': {
        'extensions': ['.js','.jsx','.ts','.tsx']
      }
    }
  }
};

edited Aug 27 '19 at 17:49

answered Aug 26 '19 at 02:32

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '21 at 20:00

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In my case I had renamed a .jsx file to .tsx and had to delete Parcel's cache to get it to resolve.

answered Mar 22 '21 at 20:00

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