TypeScript · Senior · Question 58 of 75

What does `rewriteRelativeImportExtensions` (TS 5.7) enable?

import { util } from './util.ts'; // emitted as './util.js'

✓Correct answer: Writing .ts extensions in relative imports that work both when running TS directly and after compiling to JS
2Importing CSS files
3Removing extensions from all imports

Explanation

It pairs with Node's type stripping: the same source runs directly and also compiles to correct JS imports.

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