Webpack Aliases

The module managers we have in the JavaScript community, mainly ES Modules and CommonJS, don’t support project-based paths. They only support relative paths for our own modules and paths for the node_modules folder. When a project grows a bit, it’s common to see paths such as:

Luckily, we have different ways to cope with this in a way that we can define aliases for folders relative to the project root, so we could write the above line like:

The @ here is an arbitrary character to ...