[Technical] Add baseUrl in tsconfig.json in order to avoid relative paths

Now that the library has been migrated to typescript 🎉 I think we could use the baseUrl option

"baseUrl": "./

By doing so, we could set all the imports as absolute from that URL. So, for example, this import

import rule, { RULE_NAME } from '../../../lib/rules/no-debug';

can be now converted to

import rule, { RULE_NAME } from 'lib/rules/no-debug';

and the same applies to all import. I usually find this more readable

In addition to that, when moving files, they get updated automatically 😄

[Belco90]

Ok so it seems we are introducing more problems than we solve. Should we close the issue then?

[nickmccurdy]

I’ve maintained a TypeScript library using custom paths, and I don’t think it’s worth the effort. I spent way more time trying to fix tooling bugs than I saved by making imports absolute, and you can still simplify relative imports by just moving files around.