diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 51b21583ab1..c3ad4266c39 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@
     "prettier-plugin-organize-imports": "^3.2.3",
     "stylelint": "^14.14.1",
     "stylelint-config-prettier": "^9.0.4",
-    "stylelint-config-standard": "^29.0.0"
+    "stylelint-config-standard": "^29.0.0",
+    "tsconfig-paths": "^4.2.0",
+    "tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin": "^4.1.0"
   },
   "resolutions": {
     "quill": "^1.3.6",
diff --git a/packages/commonwealth/webpack/webpack.base.config.js b/packages/commonwealth/webpack/webpack.base.config.js
index 17112992ecf..92822c20bb4 100644
--- a/packages/commonwealth/webpack/webpack.base.config.js
+++ b/packages/commonwealth/webpack/webpack.base.config.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ const path = require('path');
 const webpack = require('webpack');
 const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
 const HtmlWebpackInjectAttributesPlugin = require('html-webpack-inject-attributes-plugin');
+const TsconfigPathsPlugin = require('tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin');
 
 require('dotenv').config();
 
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ module.exports = {
     },
   },
   resolve: {
+    plugins: [new TsconfigPathsPlugin({})],
     extensions: ['.ts', '.tsx', '.mjs', '.js', '.jsx', '.svg'],
     modules: [
       '../client/scripts',
@@ -158,14 +160,6 @@ module.exports = {
       'node_modules', // local node modules
       '../node_modules', // global node modules
     ],
-    alias: {
-      'common-common': path.resolve(__dirname, '../../common-common'),
-      'chain-events': path.resolve(__dirname, '../../chain-events'),
-      'token-balance-cache': path.resolve(
-        __dirname,
-        '../../token-balance-cache',
-      ),
-    },
     fallback: {
       fs: false,
       net: false,
@@ -184,13 +178,7 @@ module.exports = {
       {
         // ignore ".spec.ts" test files in build
         test: /^(?!.*\.spec\.ts$).*(?:\.ts)$/,
-        include: [
-          path.resolve(__dirname, '../client'),
-          path.resolve(__dirname, '../shared'),
-          path.resolve(__dirname, '../../common-common'),
-          path.resolve(__dirname, '../../chain-events'),
-          path.resolve(__dirname, '../../token-balance-cache'),
-        ],
+
         loader: 'esbuild-loader',
         options: {
           loader: 'ts',
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 383a67a75e3..c1d875cdb6c 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -20,5 +20,8 @@
       "discord-bot": ["./packages/discord-bot"],
       "discord-bot/*": ["./packages/discord-bot/*"]
     }
+  },
+  "ts-node": {
+    "require": ["tsconfig-paths/register"]
   }
 }
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index cdb7dc719c2..25b46c2c1b5 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -23616,6 +23616,15 @@ tsc-alias@^1.7.0:
     normalize-path "^3.0.0"
     plimit-lit "^1.2.6"
 
+tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin@^4.1.0:
+  version "4.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin/-/tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin-4.1.0.tgz#3c6892c5e7319c146eee1e7302ed9e6f2be4f763"
+  integrity sha512-xWFISjviPydmtmgeUAuXp4N1fky+VCtfhOkDUFIv5ea7p4wuTomI4QTrXvFBX2S4jZsmyTSrStQl+E+4w+RzxA==
+  dependencies:
+    chalk "^4.1.0"
+    enhanced-resolve "^5.7.0"
+    tsconfig-paths "^4.1.2"
+
 tsconfig-paths@^3.5.0:
   version "3.9.0"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/tsconfig-paths/-/tsconfig-paths-3.9.0.tgz"
@@ -23626,7 +23635,7 @@ tsconfig-paths@^3.5.0:
     minimist "^1.2.0"
     strip-bom "^3.0.0"
 
-tsconfig-paths@^4.2.0:
+tsconfig-paths@^4.1.2, tsconfig-paths@^4.2.0:
   version "4.2.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/tsconfig-paths/-/tsconfig-paths-4.2.0.tgz#ef78e19039133446d244beac0fd6a1632e2d107c"
   integrity sha512-NoZ4roiN7LnbKn9QqE1amc9DJfzvZXxF4xDavcOWt1BPkdx+m+0gJuPM+S0vCe7zTJMYUP0R8pO2XMr+Y8oLIg==