@ilearnio, I'm taking this issue. Can I?

There is an alternative way too, instead of using the package.json file. We can use ".module-alias-rc" or something similar like ".babelrc" and ".prettierrc".

Thoughts?

@mfaheemakhtar Sure. That would be great! .module-alias-rc is also a good idea, it could contain JSON object with aliases, modulesDirectories.

It makes sense to move them into "module-alias": { alias, modules } (names alias, modules can be different, just took them from WebPack)

I said this earlier but now I think it would be more clear if the properties would be called aliases and moduleDirectories, in both package.json or rc file

Would also be nice to be able to define for different environments in this config

{
    "development": {
        "aliases": [...]
    },
   //  ...
}

_moduleAliases, _moduleDirectories and any other option starting with underscore is ignored in auto-generated package.json (in app.asar) by electron-builder. I think it is better to use module-alias option, or any options that is not starting with underscore, instead of _moduleAliases.

Related issue: Auto generated package.json does not contain settings starting with undersore