Kind of working setup

src/common/CircularList.test.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 import { assert } from 'chai';
-import { CircularList } from './CircularList';
+import { CircularList } from 'common/CircularList';
 
 describe('CircularList', () => {
   describe('push', () => {

src/common/CircularList.ts

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { ICircularList } from './Types';
-import { EventEmitter2, IEvent } from './EventEmitter2';
+import { ICircularList } from 'common/Types';
+import { EventEmitter2, IEvent } from 'common/EventEmitter2';
 
 export interface IInsertEvent {
   index: number;

src/common/Clone.test.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 import { assert, expect } from 'chai';
-import { clone } from './Clone';
+import { clone } from 'common/Clone';
 
 describe('clone', () => {
   it('should clone simple objects', () => {

src/common/EventEmitter.test.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 import { assert } from 'chai';
-import { EventEmitter } from './EventEmitter';
+import { EventEmitter } from 'common/EventEmitter';
 
 describe('EventEmitter', () => {
   let eventEmitter: EventEmitter;

src/common/EventEmitter.ts

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { IDisposable, IEventEmitter, XtermListener } from './Types';
-import { Disposable } from './Lifecycle';
+import { IDisposable, IEventEmitter, XtermListener } from 'common/Types';
+import { Disposable } from 'common/Lifecycle';
 
 export class EventEmitter extends Disposable implements IEventEmitter, IDisposable {
   private _events: {[type: string]: XtermListener[]};

src/common/EventEmitter2.test.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 import { assert } from 'chai';
-import { EventEmitter2 } from './EventEmitter2';
+import { EventEmitter2 } from 'common/EventEmitter2';
 
 describe('EventEmitter2', () => {
   it('should fire listeners multiple times', () => {

src/common/EventEmitter2.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { IDisposable } from './Types';
+import { IDisposable } from 'common/Types';
 
 interface IListener<T> {
   (e: T): void;

src/common/Lifecycle.test.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 import { assert } from 'chai';
-import { Disposable } from './Lifecycle';
+import { Disposable } from 'common/Lifecycle';
 
 class TestDisposable extends Disposable {
   public get isDisposed(): boolean {

src/common/Lifecycle.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { IDisposable } from './Types';
+import { IDisposable } from 'common/Types';
 
 /**
  * A base class that can be extended to provide convenience methods for managing the lifecycle of an

src/common/TypedArrayUtils.test.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 import { assert } from 'chai';
-import { fillFallback, concat } from './TypedArrayUtils';
+import { fillFallback, concat } from 'common/TypedArrayUtils';
 
 type TypedArray = Uint8Array | Uint16Array | Uint32Array | Uint8ClampedArray
   | Int8Array | Int16Array | Int32Array

src/common/Types.ts

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { IEvent, EventEmitter2 } from './EventEmitter2';
-import { IDeleteEvent, IInsertEvent } from './CircularList';
+import { IEvent, EventEmitter2 } from 'common/EventEmitter2';
+import { IDeleteEvent, IInsertEvent } from 'common/CircularList';
 
 export const DEFAULT_COLOR = 256;
 

src/common/tsconfig.json

@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
     "outDir": "../../lib",
     "types": [
       "../../node_modules/@types/mocha"
-    ]
+    ],
+    "baseUrl": "..",
+    "paths": {
+      "common/*": [ "./common/*" ]
+    }
   },
   "include": [ "./**/*" ]
 }

src/core/Types.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { IDisposable } from '../common/Types';
+import { IDisposable } from 'common/Types';
 
 export const enum KeyboardResultType {
   SEND_KEY,

src/core/buffer/BufferLine.ts

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2018 The xterm.js authors. All rights reserved.
  * @license MIT
  */
-import { CharData, IBufferLine, ICellData, IColorRGB, IAttributeData } from '../Types';
-import { stringFromCodePoint } from '../input/TextDecoder';
-import { DEFAULT_COLOR } from '../../common/Types';
+import { CharData, IBufferLine, ICellData, IColorRGB, IAttributeData } from 'core/Types';
+import { stringFromCodePoint } from 'core/input/TextDecoder';
+import { DEFAULT_COLOR } from 'common/Types';
 
 export const DEFAULT_ATTR = (0 << 18) | (DEFAULT_COLOR << 9) | (256 << 0);
 

src/core/buffer/BufferReflow.test.ts

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 import { assert } from 'chai';
-import { BufferLine, NULL_CELL_CHAR, NULL_CELL_WIDTH, NULL_CELL_CODE } from './BufferLine';
-import { reflowSmallerGetNewLineLengths } from './BufferReflow';
+import { BufferLine, NULL_CELL_CHAR, NULL_CELL_WIDTH, NULL_CELL_CODE } from 'core/buffer/BufferLine';
+import { reflowSmallerGetNewLineLengths } from 'core/buffer/BufferReflow';
 
 describe('BufferReflow', () => {
   describe('reflowSmallerGetNewLineLengths', () => {

src/core/buffer/BufferReflow.ts

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { BufferLine } from './BufferLine';
-import { CircularList } from '../../common/CircularList';
-import { IBufferLine, ICellData } from '../Types';
+import { BufferLine } from 'core/buffer/BufferLine';
+import { CircularList } from 'common/CircularList';
+import { IBufferLine, ICellData } from 'core/Types';
 
 export interface INewLayoutResult {
   layout: number[];

src/core/buffer/Marker.ts

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { EventEmitter2, IEvent } from '../../common/EventEmitter2';
-import { Disposable } from '../../common/Lifecycle';
-import { IMarker } from '../Types';
+import { EventEmitter2, IEvent } from 'common/EventEmitter2';
+import { Disposable } from 'common/Lifecycle';
+import { IMarker } from 'core/Types';
 
 export class Marker extends Disposable implements IMarker {
   private static _nextId = 1;

src/core/data/Charsets.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { ICharset } from '../Types';
+import { ICharset } from 'core/Types';
 
 /**
  * The character sets supported by the terminal. These enable several languages

src/core/input/Keyboard.test.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 
 import { assert } from 'chai';
-import { evaluateKeyboardEvent } from './Keyboard';
-import { IKeyboardResult } from '../Types';
-import { IKeyboardEvent } from '../../common/Types';
+import { evaluateKeyboardEvent } from 'core/input/Keyboard';
+import { IKeyboardResult } from 'core/Types';
+import { IKeyboardEvent } from 'common/Types';
 
 /**
  * A helper function for testing which allows passing in a partial event and defaults will be filled

src/core/input/Keyboard.ts

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
  * @license MIT
  */
 
-import { IKeyboardEvent } from '../../common/Types';
-import { IKeyboardResult, KeyboardResultType } from '../Types';
-import { C0 } from '../../common/data/EscapeSequences';
+import { IKeyboardEvent } from 'common/Types';
+import { IKeyboardResult, KeyboardResultType } from 'core/Types';
+import { C0 } from 'common/data/EscapeSequences';
 
 // reg + shift key mappings for digits and special chars
 const KEYCODE_KEY_MAPPINGS: { [key: number]: [string, string]} = {

src/core/input/TextDecoder.test.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 import { assert } from 'chai';
-import { StringToUtf32, stringFromCodePoint, Utf8ToUtf32, utf32ToString } from './TextDecoder';
+import { StringToUtf32, stringFromCodePoint, Utf8ToUtf32, utf32ToString } from 'core/input/TextDecoder';
 import { encode } from 'utf8';
 
 // convert UTF32 codepoints to string

src/core/tsconfig.json

@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@
     "outDir": "../../lib",
     "types": [
       "../../node_modules/@types/mocha"
-    ]
+    ],
+    "baseUrl": "..",
+    "paths": {
+      "common/*": [ "./common/*" ],
+      "core/*": [ "./core/*" ]
+    },
   },
   "include": [ "./**/*" ],
   "references": [