---
source: crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/spec_tests.rs
expression: invalidPackagePrivateImports.js
---
# Input
```jsx
// Attempt to import from `foo.js` from outside its `sub` module.
import { fooPackageVariable } from "./sub/foo.js";

// Attempt to import from `bar.ts` from outside its `aunt` module.
import { barPackageVariable } from "../aunt/bar.ts";

// Assumed to resolve to a JS/TS file.
import { fooPackageVariable } from "./sub/foo";

// If the `sub/foo` module is inaccessible, so is its index file.
import { fooPackageVariable } from "./sub/foo/index.js";

```

# Diagnostics
```
invalidPackagePrivateImports.js:2:36 lint/nursery/useImportRestrictions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Importing package private symbols is prohibited from outside the module directory.
  
    1 │ // Attempt to import from `foo.js` from outside its `sub` module.
  > 2 │ import { fooPackageVariable } from "./sub/foo.js";
      │                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    3 │ 
    4 │ // Attempt to import from `bar.ts` from outside its `aunt` module.
  
  i Please import from ./sub instead (you may need to re-export the symbol(s) from ./sub/foo.js).
  

```

```
invalidPackagePrivateImports.js:5:36 lint/nursery/useImportRestrictions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Importing package private symbols is prohibited from outside the module directory.
  
    4 │ // Attempt to import from `bar.ts` from outside its `aunt` module.
  > 5 │ import { barPackageVariable } from "../aunt/bar.ts";
      │                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    6 │ 
    7 │ // Assumed to resolve to a JS/TS file.
  
  i Please import from ../aunt instead (you may need to re-export the symbol(s) from ../aunt/bar.ts).
  

```

```
invalidPackagePrivateImports.js:8:36 lint/nursery/useImportRestrictions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Importing package private symbols is prohibited from outside the module directory.
  
     7 │ // Assumed to resolve to a JS/TS file.
   > 8 │ import { fooPackageVariable } from "./sub/foo";
       │                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^
     9 │ 
    10 │ // If the `sub/foo` module is inaccessible, so is its index file.
  
  i Please import from ./sub instead (you may need to re-export the symbol(s) from ./sub/foo).
  

```

```
invalidPackagePrivateImports.js:11:36 lint/nursery/useImportRestrictions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Importing package private symbols is prohibited from outside the module directory.
  
    10 │ // If the `sub/foo` module is inaccessible, so is its index file.
  > 11 │ import { fooPackageVariable } from "./sub/foo/index.js";
       │                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    12 │ 
  
  i Please import from ./sub/index.js instead (you may need to re-export the symbol(s) from ./sub/foo/index.js).
  

```