Typescript / Node Auto Import Paths issue

On an Java / angular-cli project, using typescript

Project structure: 

<Project's Root>

    |---- Backend

    |---- Frontend

        |---- node_modules

        |---- src

When IDEA tries to auto-import a package from <node_modules>,  the path is relative to the file that imports it; ie: `import { something } from '../../node_modules/package_containing/something'`, instead of the expected 'package_containing/something' ...

I tried marking the 'frontend' folder as "source root" or "resource root", played with the configs and all, but couldn't fix this. This is quite annoying as I cannot rely on auto-import at all this way....

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks