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
234 changed files with 867 additions and 1005 deletions
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@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ const path = require('path');
/**
* This webpack config does a production build for xterm.js. It works by taking the output from tsc
* (via `npm run watch` or `npm run prebuild`) which are put into `out/` and webpacks them into a
* production mode umd library module in `lib/`. The aliases are used fix up the absolute paths
* output by tsc (because of `baseUrl` and `paths` in `tsconfig.json`.
* production mode umd library module in `lib/`.
*
* @type {import('webpack').Configuration}
*/
@@ -31,11 +30,6 @@ const config = {
resolve: {
modules: ['./node_modules'],
extensions: [ '.js' ],
alias: {
common: path.resolve('./out/common'),
browser: path.resolve('./out/browser'),
vs: path.resolve('./out/vs'),
}
},
output: {
filename: 'xterm.js',