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Why is create react app editing my `tsconfig.json`?

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Why is create react app editing my `tsconfig.json`

Config files like tsconfig should be project specific.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

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rovansteencommented, Jan 28, 2019

@developer239 CRA should always “just” work. If we don’t enforce or restrict certain features we will break functionality or have inconsistencies. There was no deliberate choice to disable absolute imports in Typescript because we don’t want that feature but because it hasn’t been implemented in such a way that it is consistent and will always work.

We are currently working on absolute imports for both TypeScript and JavaScript. You can track the progress here: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/6116

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Timercommented, Jan 25, 2019

Create React App only supports certain TypeScript features. Because of this, the tsconfig.json is modified to be in compliance.

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