Today I Learned

In order to define a folder alias using webpack, all you have to do is write the following in webpack.config.js:

const path = require('path');

module.exports = {
  ...
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      '@': path.resolve('src'),
      images: path.resolve('assets/images'),
    },
  },
};

Now , if you want to import something from assets/images, all you need do to is

import image from 'images/[path]'

regardless of the current directory.

If the location of any of the folders defined with aliases ever changes, you no longer need to update all the imports - changing the path in webpack.config.js will take care of everything.