If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below or tweet them to us. We hope this post has given you a good understanding of how JavaScript and TypeScript imports are configured in WebStorm and other JetBrains IDEs. The “Only in files outside specified paths” option lets us do that.Īnd of course, you can also opt to ignore aliases completely by choosing “Never”. Let’s say we have the following resolve rule configured in a project’s webpack configuration file – webpack will search in src when searching for modules: module.exports = from "utils/formatDate".īut in src/utils/formatEvent.ts we want to use the short relative path ‘./formatDate’. Import Header from "src/Components/Header/Header"
With this option on, the import for Header will look like this because it will be relative to the project root: To control that for auto imports, open the Imports tab and check the option “Use paths relative to the project, resource or sources root”. In some projects you might want to have imports that are relative to a project root or some other folder. WebStorm will automatically set Git root mapping to the project root directory. Relative pathsīy default, the IDE will use paths relative to the current file.įor example, if you have App/App.js and Header/Header.js in the src/Components folder, an import of Header in App will look like: import Header from "./Header/Header". If you want to create a project based on these sources, click Yes in the confirmation dialog. The libraries associated with the current file are marked with a tick. WebStorm displays a list with the available configured libraries. To use spaces inside the curly braces in import statements, open the Spaces tab and check “ES5 import/export braces” under the Within group. Open the file in the editor, press Ctrl Shift 0A, and select Use JavaScript Library from the list. With “Always”, the quotes will also be changed in your existing code when you run Reformat code. Select “In new code” if you want this option to apply only when new imports or other pieces of code are generated. On the Punctuation tab, you can choose between single and double quotes. Go to Editor | Code Style | JavaScript or TypeScript in the IDE Preferences/Settings. Here’s how you can set the quote style yourself. In most cases, if you’re using ESLint or EditorConfig and have rules about quotes and spaces enabled in your configuration file, the IDE will follow them automatically. Let’s start with some small but important things – quotes and spaces around curly braces.
Let’s see how we can configure the style of imports that are added in the project to make sure everything looks just right. License itself is stored in theHowever, sometimes the added import might not look exactly like you want it to – maybe the quotes are single instead of double, or the path is not the one that is recommended in your project. Auto import is one of the most-used features in WebStorm because, as its name suggests, it just works automatically and adds required imports as you write your code.