Why are absolute ids skipped?

[eddiemonge]

On this line https://github.com/aleclarson/vite-tsconfig-paths/blob/master/src/index.ts#L114, it skips it if it is an "absolute path" but why?

I have this in my tsconfig: "paths": { "/*": ["./*"] }," so I can do imports like import CardNavItem from '/UI/CardNavItem';. This fails through the plugin but if I remove the isAbsolute check it works and in my limited testing, doesn't seem to break anything else.

[aleclarson]

It's a perf optimization. PR welcome

[rtmann]

Perf optimization? So is this saying that vite-tsconfig-paths does not support absolute alias's like "@common/models" ????

If so, I've wasted days debugging my build and this was the problem the whole time.

[aleclarson]

@rtmann This issue is about using tsconfig to redirect paths like /x/y/z (note the leading slash)

[pappnase99]

Just ran into this issue. Even though absolute paths are generally disencouraged, there are legitimate use cases. For example, if you want to deploy code into AWS Lambda functions, but you want to keep your deployment size as minimal as possible, you can use dependency layers where you can put common code like service classes etc. These layers are then mounted into the Lambda with a prefix '/opt', creating import paths like '/opt/services/MyService', so you know in the target runtime this absolute path will be available to your code.

So making absolute paths possible via config param/whatever would be a big improvement.