[eslint-import-resolver-node] allow ~/...

[TriMoon]

Could you add the posibility to use ~ as a replacement for $HOME like in shells?
That way it would be possible to use:

settings:
  import/resolver:
    node:
      paths:
        - ~/node_modules

instead of hardcoding the real path to the user's home dir, which will be different for every user...

[ljharb]

I have a few responses to this:

1. you should never be requiring from anything but locally installed dependencies, ever. NODE_PATH is community-deprecated, and for good reason.
2. An upcoming change to node's module resolution algorithm is going to provide a meaning for ~, which is "the package root" - so your request would conflict with it.
3. ~ currently is not allowed in node's module resolution algorithm, so we wouldn't be able to support it by default anyways.

[scottlaplante]

@ljharb Can you provide a link to information regarding this?

An upcoming change to node's module resolution algorithm is going to provide a meaning for ~, which is "the package root"

Thanks!

[ljharb]

nodejs/modules#403 is one of the issue tracking it; it's currently not available in node, and may be ~ or @ or something entirely different.