React import from parent directory

Question

I am unable to import file from parent of project directory. To make things as simple as possible, I created new react-native project and file 'test.js' in a parent directory. I tried to import it with this code:

var Test = require('../test.js');

and

import Test from ('../test.js');

None of these worked - when run in xcode I have following error:

uncaught error Error: UnableToResolveError: Unable to resolve module ../test.js from /Users/UserName/Downloads/TestReact/index.ios.js: Invalid directory /Users/UserName/Downloads/test.js

Is it possible to import file from parent directory with react-native? I̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶s̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶c̶t̶J̶S̶.

Regards

edit - adding code

test.js

'use strict';

import React, {Component,View,Text} from 'react-native';

  class Test extends Component{
  render(){
    return (
    <View>
      <Text>
        SAMPLE TEXT
      </Text>
    </View>
    );
  }
}
module.exports = Test;

index.ios.js

'use strict';
import React, {AppRegistry, View} from 'react-native';
import Test from '../test.js';

var TestReact = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    return (
      <View><Test/></View>
    );
  }
});

AppRegistry.registerComponent('TestReact', () => TestReact);

edit - added files hierarchy: screenshot

edit - actually I was wrong, it's impossible with web react too. When I try to build I got following error:

Module parse failed: /path_to_file/aaa1.js Line 1: Unexpected token You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.

So adding react tag to the question.

Answer 1

Try this ./../Component.js. It works for me. More over if you need access a component from adjacent directory ./../AdjDir/Component.js

Answer 2

This problem may be because react only allows you to import from the src folder. So all resources have to placed in this directory.

Also when you go more than two parent directories back you need to use this syntax: ../../../myfolder/myFile.js

Answer 3

finally a stack overflow question I can answer:

Simply add below jsconfig.json to the base route of your react folder. (Assuming you put all of your react code in "src" folder)

example_react_app
  ---> public
  ---> src
  ---> jsconfig.json

jsconfig.json file content

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": "src",
    "paths": {
      "*": ["src/*"]
    }
  }
}