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by FinalBriefing 1432 days ago
It's a JavaScript bundler. If a framework is doing weird stuff with imports, or using legacy module builds, that's on the framework to fix...or not.

Angular is the same way, it has its own compiler and relies on custom build-time code to work. That's also why it isn't picked up by a lot of newer build tools that generally just work with normal JS.