[Request] Extend tsconfig via a package

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TypeScript Version: 2.3.2

Code

{
  "extends": "tsconfig-react-app"
}

Expected behavior:

Using the node module resolution, finds the specified package and inspects the package.json's main field for a .json file, which is used to extend the configuration.

Actual behavior:
Something along the lines "must be a relative path".

[vtabary]

I think it could use the same behavior than the module resolution to be consistent.

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Would love to know if this would be considered or if I could contribute support.

We'd really like it for create-react-app. We're currently exploring TypeScript support and something that's important to us is zero-configuration, so this feature is pretty important.
Thanks!

[loucyx]

This is very simmilar to this issue: #18865 I really want to see this solved. Is currently making my dev experience really annoying.

[mhegazy]

Closing in favor of #18865.

Though #18865 is a duplicate of this one, #18865 seems to have more discussion.

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I think you forgot to close :)