Remove TypeScript path mappings in favor of relative imports

Fixes https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/5896

TypeScript path mappings for common/*, browser/*, and headless/*
were not rewritten in emitted JavaScript, which forced webpack resolve
aliases and NODE_PATH workarounds so runtime could resolve modules.
That added build complexity and broke tooling such as ESLint import/no-cycle.

Changes:
- Convert ~750 imports across src/, addons/, and test/ to relative paths
- Remove common/browser/headless paths and src catch-all mappings from tsconfigs
  (keep @xterm/addon-* demo and addon typings paths)
- Remove webpack resolve.alias for common, browser, headless, and vs
- Drop NODE_PATH from unit tests, benchmarks, and VS Code launch config
- Fix addon-image IIPImageStorage to import ./Types after removing catch-all *

Verified: npm run build, esbuild, package, package-headless
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Daniel Imms
2026-05-31 09:16:10 -07:00
co-authored by Cursor
parent 43e8365f0e
commit 17ad33dc3d
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* @license MIT
*/
import * as Strings from 'browser/LocalizableStrings';
import { CoreBrowserTerminal as TerminalCore } from 'browser/CoreBrowserTerminal';
import { IBufferRange, ITerminal } from 'browser/Types';
import { Disposable } from 'common/Lifecycle';
import { ITerminalOptions } from 'common/Types';
import { AddonManager } from 'common/public/AddonManager';
import { BufferNamespaceApi } from 'common/public/BufferNamespaceApi';
import { ParserApi } from 'common/public/ParserApi';
import { UnicodeApi } from 'common/public/UnicodeApi';
import * as Strings from '../LocalizableStrings';
import { CoreBrowserTerminal as TerminalCore } from '../CoreBrowserTerminal';
import { IBufferRange, ITerminal } from '../Types';
import { Disposable } from '../../common/Lifecycle';
import { ITerminalOptions } from '../../common/Types';
import { AddonManager } from '../../common/public/AddonManager';
import { BufferNamespaceApi } from '../../common/public/BufferNamespaceApi';
import { ParserApi } from '../../common/public/ParserApi';
import { UnicodeApi } from '../../common/public/UnicodeApi';
import { IBufferNamespace as IBufferNamespaceApi, IDecoration, IDecorationOptions, IDisposable, ILinkProvider, ILocalizableStrings, IMarker, IModes, IParser, IRenderDimensions, ITerminalAddon, Terminal as ITerminalApi, ITerminalInitOnlyOptions, IUnicodeHandling } from '@xterm/xterm';
import type { IEvent } from 'common/Event';
import type { IEvent } from '../../common/Event';
/**
* The set of options that only have an effect when set in the Terminal constructor.