How to configure react-script so that it doesn’t override tsconfig.json on ‘start’

I was able to do this by using advice from this issue.

Put the configuration options react scripts likes to remove in a separate file (e.g. paths.json) and reference it from tsconfig.json via the extends directive.

paths.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
  "baseUrl": "./src",
  "paths": {
    "interfaces/*": [ "common/interfaces/*"],
    "components/*": [ "common/components/*"],
    }
  }
}

tsconfig.json

{
  "extends": "./paths.json"
   ...rest of tsconfig.json
}