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.NET 5 CORE MVC: Trying to import a module from a JavaScript file, always results in a console error. The file is never found under the wwwroot folder

I'm trying to implement the Bootstrap 5 version of the Table Editor plugin of MDBootstrap, but the error that I get, has nothing to do with them, at least, not directly. This is my first time working with modules so bear with me. What I'm trying to achieve, is simple. This is the header of my importer js file:
import FocusTrap from './mdb/util/focusTrap';
import PerfectScrollbar from './mdb/perfect-scrollbar';
import { getjQuery, typeCheckConfig, onDOMContentLoaded } from './mdb/util/index';
import Data from './mdb/dom/data';
import EventHandler from './mdb/dom/event-handler';
import Manipulator from './mdb/dom/manipulator';
import SelectorEngine from './mdb/dom/selector-engine';
import tableTemplate from './table/html/table'; //eslint-disable-line
import { getModalContent, getModal } from './table/html/modal';
import {
search,
sort,
paginate,
getCSSValue,
formatRows,
formatColumns,
getRowIndex,
} from './table/util';
Great. Well, this code produces the browser error:
So of course, my JS plugin doesn't work because the browser doesn't find the imports. I suspects is because I'm not using the ~ at the start of the path to indicate that they resides under the wwwroot folder. However writing the ~ in front of the path, causes yet another error by the browser, saying, that's incorrect syntax.
So I'm stuck!!!
In case you are wondering, this is how my wwwroot looks right now:
And the Table Editor js file, which is the one that does the import, is right there alongside those folders:
What should I do in this situation?
Help :(

How to get rid of React Select Import Error?

I'm trying to use the select input tool for ReactJS (https://react-select.com/home#getting-started) so I can have a filter/search bar on my website. I copied and pasted the code from the link above into a new file in my src folder. At this point I had no errors, but when I import this filter file into my App.js file and run it, I get the following error:
Module not found: You attempted to import ../data which falls outside of the project src/ directory. Relative imports outside of src/ are not supported.
Here are the imports for the filter file:
import React, { Component, Fragment } from 'react';
import Select from 'react-select';
import { colourOptions } from '../data';
import { Note } from '../styled-components';
The rest of the code is in the link above (I used the Single search, the first one that comes up). I've looked up several things and can't seem to figure out how to get rid of this error!
[EDIT] I don't even know where this data file is in my project or my computer. I've searched for it and I have a million data files, so I'm unsure of what to bring into my src folder. I'm also having the same problem with the styled-components import. When I search for that on my computer, nothing comes up.

import { colourOptions } from '../data';
The above import seems to be incorrect. You might have want to import the from the data.js which is in the same directory as of your App.js.
import { colourOptions } from './data';
This can help you solve the error. Also make sure the data.js file is in the same directory as of App.js.

Better way to import files for webpack bundle size

hooks/index.js
export { default as useDialog } from './useDialog'
export { default as useCurrencies } from './useCurrencies'
export { default as useUser } from './useUser'
Let's imagine that I have 3 files in hooks folder (useDialog, useCurrencies, useUser) . I want to make the correct imports from this folder. Now I do imports like this :
import {useDialog} from 'hooks'
Is it correct way to import this file , or it is better to import it like import useDialog from 'hooks/useDialog' ? What is better for my bundle size ?

You can try yourself and compare the bundle sizes on production from before and after. I'm gonna explain how to do it if anyone needs it.
First do these steps with the code importing from the index: import {useDialog} from 'hooks'
yarn build
serve -s build
Open the local address (http://localhost:5000/) on incognito mode. Then open Inspect -> Coverage.
At the bottom you can see the size. e.g: 1.2MB of 2.1MB (55%) used so far 964kB unused
Then change your code and import directly from the file: import useDialog from 'hooks/useDialog', and repeat the build and check the size.
Maybe if the files are too small you are not going to notice a difference, but you will if there are any big files or files that imports a big external library.
I tried this comparison on my project and there was one file importing and using moment. I was not even using this component, but the bundle size was increased because I was importing another component from the same index.
Before I was always importing from a folder like 'hooks', but from now on I will always import directly from the file 'hooks/useDialog'.
I'm just sharing my experience! Please, compare the bundles on your own projects!

Vuejs, import component file issues

I have a files structure issue that I am trying to fix when referencing components into other components as imports.
The current files setup I have looks like this...
I am working on the file called security_passphrase.vue and within that file I reference 2 files to import as I need to use them there.
import dropdown from '../components/vue_form/dropdown.vue'
import formbutton from '../components/vue_form/form_button.vue'
The compiler cannot find the modules I am trying to load.
Error: Cannot find module '../../components/vue_form/dropdown.vue' from 'C:\wamp64\www\merchant-backend-new\merchant-backend\resources\assets\js\components\vue_form\concertina_form'
Error: Cannot find module '../../components/vue_form/form_button.vue'
from
'C:\wamp64\www\merchant-backend-new\merchant-backend\resources\assets\js\components\vue_form\concertina_form'
I have tried different ways to make this work but no success. The files I am trying to import are outside of the folder where the file is I am working with.
/concertina_form/security_passphrase.vue /vue_form/form_button.vue
/vue_form/dropdown.vue
Help will be great :)

import dropdown from '../dropdown.vue'
import formbutton from '../form_button.vue'
Should be the correct way to import these files, using ../ goes down one directory which will take you from the concertina_form directory to the vue_form directory.

react, webpack: avoid ".." in import statements

I'm currently learning react and thus es6/es7 and webpack.
Coming from a largely python background I'm annoyed by the folder sensitive path declarations for import statements, i.e. the use of ../../ in import statements. This means if I move a file to a different directory, i need to change the import statements declared in the file.
Python's import statement doesn't have this issue. I'd like to mimic that behavior
(search first a particular directory for this path, if not search this other base directory)
e.g. if i have the directory structure
myApp
components
component1.jsx
stores
store1.jsx
views
view1.jsx
node_modules
react
etc
in my view1.jsx I don't want to write
import Component1 from '../components/component1'
I want to write
import Component1 from 'components/component1'
or maybe even
import Component1 from 'myApp/components/component1'
just to make sure I don't have name collisions with some npm package I may be using.
What is the correct way of accomplishing this in webpack? Is it using alias?

I ended up following #zerkms recommendation. resolve.modulesDirectories is the way to go.

I wrote a loader to accomplish this, https://www.npmjs.com/package/future-require-loader. It will autoload a path anywhere three underscores surround a partial file path ___filename.js___. it also allows folder paths: ___folder/filename.js___. it will attempt to match the first file path that includes the string so you will want to include folders if there could be a conflict.