By default bundlers resolve a packages import from the
modulefield over themaininpackage.json(webpack and rollup, for example) which points to a projects ES6 module entry.By default bundlers ignore transformations on anything from
node_modules.
Aren't these two behaviors contradictory?
There are solutions to this:
- Change the mainFields option to import
mainbeforemodule. - Change your exclude option to transpile specific package(s).
- Use an es-check and only transpile packages that need it.
But yeah, this has always confused me. Am I missing something? Why do they do this?
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Well, sometimes you want to bundle but don't want to transpile. The best thing about webpack is that you can configure it however you like.
Yeah, totally. I love webpack too and have found ways to configure a bundle and resolve the issue in both webpack and rollup. I guess my general question is why does it act this way by default? It feels very counter-intuitive and while I was searching for solutions I noticed A LOT of similar posts of people trying to resolve that same issue.