The latest articles on DEV Community by Kavinkumar R (@xnivaxhzne). https://dev.to/xnivaxhzne https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F993371%2F6c8ba139-2bed-4d4a-b3e2-1675fc0bed90.jpeg https://dev.to/xnivaxhzne en Kavinkumar R Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:15:31 +0000 https://dev.to/xnivaxhzne/what-is-the-purpose-of-jsconfigjson-4ob0 https://dev.to/xnivaxhzne/what-is-the-purpose-of-jsconfigjson-4ob0 <ul> <li>As the name suggests, it is used in javascript project.</li> <li>It's usually located at the root of the project.</li> <li>It tells the editor(like VS Code) how to handle intellisense, auto completion and path aliasing.</li> <li>It is a descendent of tsconfig.json file - configuration file for typescript.</li> <li>Path aliasing defined here in this file won't impact the build. For that, you need to configure your bundler(like Webpack, vite, etc...) separately.</li> </ul> javascript vscode webdev typescript