# Plugin root dir issues

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-root-dir-issues/300990>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** kibana-plugin-development\
**Created:** [March 29, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-root-dir-issues/300990 "2022-03-29T16:18:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![WhatImIDoing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@WhatImIDoing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WhatImIDoing)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-root-dir-issues/300990/1 "2022-03-29T16:18:05Z")

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I am developing a plugin for 8.1 and am having trouble setting up the tsconfig.json

I am refencing an interface at /src/plugins/discover/public/application/doc\_views\_types and getting this error

'/home/user/Desktop/kibana/src/plugins/dashboard/public/application/index.ts' is not under 'rootDir' '/home/user/Desktop/kibana/plugins/spitting\_alpaca'. 'rootDir' is expected to contain all source files.",

My tsconfig looks like this

```auto
{
  "extends": "../../tsconfig.json",
  "compilerOptions": {
    "outDir": "./target",
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "sourceMap": true
  },
  "include": [
    "index.ts",
    "common/**/*.ts",
    "public/**/*.ts",
    "public/**/*.tsx",
    "public/**/*.png",
    "server/**/*.ts",
    "../../typings/**/*",
  ],
  "exclude": [],
  "references": [
    { "path": "../../src/core/tsconfig.json" },
    { "path": "../../src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json" },
    { "path": "../../x-pack/plugins/reporting/tsconfig.json" },
  ]
}

```

How to i link these external resource to my plugin?

Do i need to make make a path refence for every utility i use?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-root-dir-issues/300990/2 "2022-04-26T16:18:23Z")

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