How to use absolute imports in React
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Deep folder structures in React applications lead to messy import statements with multiple ../../../ sequences that are hard to read and maintain.
As the creator of CoreUI with over 12 years of React experience since 2014, I’ve configured absolute imports for numerous large-scale applications.
React supports absolute imports through a simple jsconfig.json or tsconfig.json configuration that maps import paths to specific directories.
This approach transforms imports from ../../../components/Button to components/Button, making code much cleaner and easier to refactor.