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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add project source dir as a module","articleBody":"It would be very useful to be able to address components via a relative path starting at the project root. A way to do this is to consider the project root as a special project, as if it was inside of `node_modules` as far as resolution is concerned.\n\nSuch a design greatly reinforces the 'app as a library' idea, and plays nice with most module loading scheme.\n\nA proposed name is `@app` but configurable via `angular-cli.json`, where `app` is the project prefix specified in `ng new --prefix app` (this exists already and defaults to `app`).\n\nExample:\n\n```\n// instead of \nimport { something } from '../../../../../../../shared/something';\n// we could do\nimport { something } from '@app/shared/something';\n```\n\nThis would also work for CSS preprocessors.\n\nSuch implementation would address https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/865 and also greatly reduce the need for https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/900.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/filipesilva","@type":"Person","name":"filipesilva"},"datePublished":"2016-07-27T16:30:13.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":50},"url":"https://github.com/1465/angular-cli/issues/1465"}