Repository: create-react-app
Issue: Issue with absolute imports in react application with bootsraped project
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### Describe the bug

There is an issue with the way absolute imports are handled in project bootstraped with `create-react-app` version `5.0.1`
I configured correctly the absolute imports according to the CRA [docs](https://create-react-app.dev/docs/importing-a-component/#absolute-imports). Some of the absolute imports works, some of them don't

For example I am able to do an absolute import on a type, but the application crashes when I make an absolute import on a function.

I have created a reproducible demo of the issue available on this [link](https://github.com/Vikmanatus/reactjs-absolute-imports-issue)

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Yes I have tried all of the solutions proposed absove

The output of `yarn --version` is `1.22.19`

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The issue is not documented in the troubleshoot section

I have found a list of similar issues:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68416916/create-react-app-absolute-imports-dont-work-with-yarn-v2-workspaces-typescrip
- https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11976
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72132090/absolute-imports-issue-in-react-with-typescript
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72017719/absolute-imports-arent-working-in-reactjs
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73370209/absolute-path-not-working-for-create-react-app-with-typescript

I have tried every solution suggested in another repo, but it didn't fix the issue

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  current version of create-react-app: 5.0.1
  running from /Users/vikmanatus/.npm/_npx/c67e74de0542c87c/node_modules/create-react-app

  System:
    OS: macOS 12.3
    CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Pro
  Binaries:
    Node: 18.7.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
    npm: 8.19.2 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 105.0.5195.125
    Edge: Not Found
    Firefox: Not Found
    Safari: 15.4
  npmPackages:
    react: ^18.2.0 => 18.2.0 
    react-dom: ^18.2.0 => 18.2.0 
    react-scripts: 5.0.1 => 5.0.1 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

### Steps to reproduce

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Clone the repository of this [link](https://github.com/Vikmanatus/reactjs-absolute-imports-issue) and please follow the next steps :

1. Run `yarn install`
2. Run `yarn start`

You will see the following error in your browser

`Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '@/utils' in '/Users/someUser/Desktop/SomeFolder/reactjs-absolute-imports-issue/src'`

I have written a small documentation on the `README.md` of the reproducible issue repo to add some important details


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The import of the `makeId` function of this [repo](https://github.com/Vikmanatus/reactjs-absolute-imports-issue) should work with the following absolute import:

```javascript
import { makeid } from "@/utils";       // Throws an error
```

The strange thing is that the compiler throws an error when it imports the function but accepts the absolute import of a type 🤔

```javascript
import { FakeObjectType } from "@/types";   // No error
```

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An error is thrown saying that `@/utils` cannot be resolved

`Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '@/utils' in '/Users/someUser/Desktop/SomeFolder/reactjs-absolute-imports-issue/src'`

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Reproducible demo: https://github.com/Vikmanatus/reactjs-absolute-imports-issue

Clone the repository of the reproducible demo and please follow the next steps :

1. Run `yarn install`
2. Run `yarn start`

You will see the following error in your browser:

`Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '@/utils' in '/Users/someUser/Desktop/SomeFolder/reactjs-absolute-imports-issue/src'`

I have written a small documentation on the `README.md` of the reproducible issue repo to add some important details

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