Passing options to js compiler on meteor

Question

We are adding a jsconfig file to the root of a meteor project to add short hands form imports.

For instance instead of import UserMutations from '../../api/Users/mutations'; we would like to write import UserMutations from '@api/Users/mutations';

This is an example jsconfig file

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

When we add this our short hand imports recognized as npm packages that are missing.

Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

Looks like what you are referring to is https://guide.meteor.com/build-tool.html#typescript. Accordingly, your file needs to be called tsconfig.json.

Answer 2

Meteor's build system uses babel under the hood. So, you can solve your task with a plugin 'module-resolver':

Install npm package:

meteor npm i babel-plugin-module-resolver

Create .babelrc at the root of your meteor project:

{
  "plugins": [
    [
      "module-resolver",
      {
        "alias": {
          "@api": "./imports/api"
        }
      }
    ]
  ]
}

Then import

imports
api
   users
      index.js
      utils.js
...

import { Users } from '@api/users';
import { SomeUtils } from '@api/users/utils.js';