Cannot import external JSON in vite.config.ts on Node v22 about vite HOT 3 OPEN

BTW, there seems to be no doubt that esbuild is erasing import attributes.

That looks like a bug in esbuild. They were initially introduced in node 21 but recently backported into 18 and 20. I opened evanw/esbuild#3778.

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Maybe duplicate of #14674, at least I noticed the same bug that vite incorrectly strips import assertions during compilation against a node18 target. esbuild alone preserves it fine with a node18 target.

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In my case, I feel the problem in processing vite.config.ts, not in the bundling of app itself.
Config files are bundled in a different manner than the app itself, and their settings are hard-coded.

BTW, there seems to be no doubt that esbuild is erasing import attributes.

• target: ["node18"]: https://esbuild.github.io/try/#dAAwLjIxLjMALS10YXJnZXQ9Im5vZGUxOCIAaW1wb3J0IGRhdGEgZnJvbSAiZXh0ZXJuYWwuanNvbiIgd2l0aCB7IHR5cGU6ICJqc29uIiB9
• target: ["node22"]: https://esbuild.github.io/try/#dAAwLjIxLjMALS10YXJnZXQ9Im5vZGUyMiIAaW1wb3J0IGRhdGEgZnJvbSAiZXh0ZXJuYWwuanNvbiIgd2l0aCB7IHR5cGU6ICJqc29uIiB9

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