Import path aliasing is a crutch for poor architecture

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Path aliasing, sometimes referred to as import or module resolution, in the earliest and most naïve sense, is a method of overloading the Node Require Resolution Algorithm so that it first looks in some particular defined folders for modules of a given name before looking for installed modules of the same name in node_modules folders. While this seems handy at first glance, in practice, it’s is an…

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