In a Typescript project I am working on, I use tsconfig’s paths property to create local modules that I can refer to in the project’s import without having to type a long relative directory. E.g. Instead of typing: import { module } from '../../../modules/module'; I want to type: import { module } from '@modules/module'; To accomplish this, I have added the paths property to my root-level tsconfig.json file: // Root-level tsconfig // File: .