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How to sort imports in the nodejs project?

By Dmytro Laptiev • October 2, 2025

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Hello, today I am going to share my best practice with setuping eslint for sorting pacakge in the project. I prefer when my import stanaments are organized. Let's start

1. We need to do is to install eslint (if needed)

npm init @eslint/config@latest

2. We need to install eslint import plugin 

npm install eslint-plugin-import --dev

3. We need to update our eslint config file

module.exports = {
    // ... here is our previous configuration ...

    plugins: [
        ['@typescript-eslint', 'prettier', 'import'],
        'eslint:recommended',
        'plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended',
        'plugin:prettier/recommended',
        'plugin:import/recommended',
        'plugin:import/typescript',
    ],
    rules: {
        // ... here is our previous rules ...

        // turn on errors for missing imports
        'import/no-unresolved': 'error',
        'import/order': [
            'error',
            {
                groups: [
                    'builtin', // Built-in imports (come from NodeJS native) go first
                    'external', // <- External imports
                    'internal', // <- Absolute imports
                    ['sibling', 'parent'], // <- Relative imports, the sibling and parent types they can be mingled together
                    'index', // <- index imports
                    'unknown', // <- unknown
                ],
                'newlines-between': 'always',
                alphabetize: {
                    /* sort in ascending order. Options: ["ignore", "asc", "desc"] */
                    order: 'asc',
                    /* ignore case. Options: [true, false] */
                    caseInsensitive: true,
                },
            },
        ],
    }
};

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