Is it possible for absolute paths to autocomplete in Visual Studio Code (VSCode)?

Question

When writing a javascript app, it's possible to create an .env file in the root directory containing just e.g:

NODE_PATH=src/

Which sets up allowing for absolute paths e.g: in import statements in code.

e.g: I can be working on the file /src/actions/index.js and enter:

import { SAVE_COMMENT } from "actions/types";

..and the import works, but there is no auto-complete and I wonder: Is it possible to auto-complete after I type just:

import { SAVE_COMMENT } from "actions/

?

Relative-path lookup continues to work great. In fact, the relative path lookup is one of my favorite features of vs-code and one of the reasons I use it, so it would be very nice for it to work when absolute paths are configured, too.

Answer 1

VS Code does not support using NODE_PATH for intellisense. To achieve what you want, create a jsconfig.json file at the root of your project with the contents:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "target": "ES6",
        "baseUrl": "./src"
    },
    "exclude": [
        "node_modules",
        "**/node_modules/*"
    ]
}

The important setting is baseUrl. It tells VS Code to resolve non-relative paths relative to the ./src folder

After configuring jsconfig and baseUrl, you can also set "javascript.preferences.importModuleSpecifier": "non-relative" in VS Code to specify that VS Code should always try to use paths to use the baseUrl