Add baseUrl documentation #6847
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| "compilerOptions": { | ||
| "baseUrl": "src" | ||
| }, | ||
| "include": ["src/**/*"] |
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I don't think this is needed. I could definitely be wrong about that though. When I was testing this I wasn't using it.
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You definitely don't need it, you're right. It's recommended by VS Code team to avoid performance issues when you add this file. This link explains it well: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/jsconfig. The key thing to note:
If you do not have a jsconfig.json in your workspace, VS Code will by default exclude the node_modules folder.
When your JavaScript project is growing too large and performance slows, it is often because of library folders like node_modules. If VS Code detects that your project is growing too large, it will prompt you to edit the exclude list.
So once we add this file, it by default will include everything in the directory of jsconfig.json and all subdirectories, including node_modules. By using include it explicitly says "only check these files, thanks!", which is equivalent to how we have our configuration for tsconfig.json.
Thoughts?
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That seems like a pretty good reason to me.
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Thank you for doing this. ❤️ |
Co-Authored-By: ianschmitz <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: ianschmitz <[email protected]>
| "compilerOptions": { | ||
| "baseUrl": "src" | ||
| }, | ||
| "include": ["src"] |
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Do you need to specify src here? I haven't tested, just wondering... if not, we could simplify this.
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Not for absolute imports. It’s used to specify which files should be included for TypeScript compilation and/or which files should be analyzed by the IDE.
Closes #6765.
/cc @rovansteen, @iansu, @mrmckeb