Vite: Could not resolve "ts-node"

[timofei-iatsenko]

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This will show when run

 [ERROR] Could not resolve "ts-node"

    node_modules/cosmiconfig-typescript-loader/dist/cjs/index.js:28:29:
      28 │ var import_ts_node = require("ts-node");
         ╵                              ~~~~~~~~~

  You can mark the path "ts-node" as external to exclude it from the bundle, which will remove this
  error. You can also surround this "require" call with a try/catch block to handle this failure at
  run-time instead of bundle-time.

That's unexpected behaviour.

[timofei-iatsenko]

Well, i've found a root cause. It's not related to config loading, it's related to macro import in the code itself. Vite before serve trying to bundle all used pacakges in node_modules. Vite starts analyzing imports and see "@lingui/macro" and starts bundling it. It doesn't know anything about that macro import would be removed from code while transpiling.