eslint-plugin-path

An ESLint plugin for enforcing consistent import paths across a project. It rewrites relative imports to absolute ones (or the reverse), based on the paths and baseUrl in your tsconfig.json / jsconfig.json.

Installation

# npm
npm install eslint-plugin-path --save-dev

# yarn
yarn add eslint-plugin-path --dev

ESLint 10+

This plugin requires ESLint 10 or later and Node.js ^20.19.0 || ^22.13.0 || >=24 — the same range ESLint 10 supports.

It uses the flat config format (eslint.config.js). The legacy .eslintrc format was removed in ESLint 10 and is not supported.

Basic usage

import eslintPluginPath from 'eslint-plugin-path';

export default [
  {
    files: ['**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}'],
    plugins: {
      path: eslintPluginPath,
    },
    rules: {
      'path/no-relative-imports': [
        'error',
        {
          maxDepth: 2,
          suggested: false,
        },
      ],
    },
  },
];

Using defineConfig()

import { defineConfig } from 'eslint/config';
import eslintPluginPath from 'eslint-plugin-path';

export default defineConfig([
  {
    files: ['**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}'],
    plugins: {
      path: eslintPluginPath,
    },
    rules: {
      'path/no-relative-imports': [
        'error',
        {
          maxDepth: 2,
          suggested: false,
        },
      ],
    },
  },
]);

Using presets

import eslintPluginPath from 'eslint-plugin-path';

export default [
  ...eslintPluginPath.configs.recommended,
];

Custom tsconfig/jsconfig paths

If you are using custom paths in your tsconfig.json or jsconfig.json file, you can specify the path to the configuration file in your ESLint settings:

import eslintPluginPath from 'eslint-plugin-path';

export default [
  {
    plugins: { path: eslintPluginPath },
    settings: {
      path: {
        config: 'tsconfig.json', // or 'jsconfig.json'
      },
    },
    rules: {
      'path/no-relative-imports': 'error',
    },
  },
];

Configuration

Enable the rules in your ESLint flat configuration:

import eslintPluginPath from 'eslint-plugin-path';

export default [
  {
    plugins: { path: eslintPluginPath },
    rules: {
      'path/no-relative-imports': 'error',
    },
  },
];

Or use the recommended preset:

import eslintPluginPath from 'eslint-plugin-path';

export default [
  ...eslintPluginPath.configs.recommended,
];

What is checked

All three rules inspect the specifier of these forms:

import x from '../../components/button';   // static import
import('../../components/button');         // dynamic import
require('../../components/button');        // CommonJS require

Re-export declarations are not checked:

export * from '../../components/button';        // not reported
export { Button } from '../../components/button'; // not reported

Bare specifiers that resolve inside node_modules (e.g. react) are always skipped.

Rules

✔ included in the "recommended" preset

🔧 fixable using the --fix command line option

💡 provides editor suggestions

			Name	Description
✔	🔧	💡	no-relative-imports	disallow relative imports of files where absolute is preferred
	🔧	💡	no-absolute-imports	disallow absolute imports of files where relative is preferred
	🔧	💡	only-absolute-imports	disallow relative imports of files through the whole project

Presets

• recommended — enables no-relative-imports with { maxDepth: 1, suggested: true }. Note this is stricter than the rule's own defaults ({ maxDepth: 2, suggested: false }).

recommended is the only preset. The three rules express mutually exclusive policies, so no single config can enable them together — pick the one rule that matches your project and configure it explicitly.

Removed in 3.0.0: the all preset. It never enabled all rules — it enabled only no-relative-imports, with weaker settings than recommended. See the CHANGELOG.

License

MIT