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>
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Imms
2026-05-31 09:16:10 -07:00
co-authored by Cursor
parent 43e8365f0e
commit 17ad33dc3d
234 changed files with 867 additions and 1005 deletions
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
import { assert } from 'chai';
import { DecorationLineCache, DecorationService } from './DecorationService';
import { IMarker } from 'common/Types';
import { Disposable } from 'common/Lifecycle';
import { Emitter } from 'common/Event';
import { MockLogService, MockBufferService, MockOptionsService } from 'common/TestUtils.test';
import { Buffer } from 'common/buffer/Buffer';
import { DEFAULT_ATTR_DATA } from 'common/buffer/BufferLine';
import { IMarker } from '../Types';
import { Disposable } from '../Lifecycle';
import { Emitter } from '../Event';
import { MockLogService, MockBufferService, MockOptionsService } from '../TestUtils.test';
import { Buffer } from '../buffer/Buffer';
import { DEFAULT_ATTR_DATA } from '../buffer/BufferLine';
function createFakeMarker(line: number): IMarker {
return Object.freeze(new class extends Disposable {