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Transpiling local package dependencies that use TS file as entry point
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Hi, consider a monorepo that has some TypeScript packages kept in `packages/*`. Now one of these packages, let's call it `b`, depends on package `a`. Package `a` has entry point set as TS file e.g. `src/index.ts.`. When trying to bundle such package `microbundle` fails since it cannot transpile package `a` as it's declared as a dependency of `b` and thus it's expected that the package is already bundled up.
I could think of the following solutions:
1. Only use published npm packages as dependency.
2. Always point main entry to bundle e.g. dist/index.js.
3. Keep using TS files as main entry but when bundling, use bundled version i.e. dist/index.js.
I have prepared a small sample monorepo illustrating the issue https://github.com/karolisvram/packages-publishing-sample/ but so far haven't decided on the best solution as all have drawbacks. Ideally, mirobundle would transpile its local dependencies too but as far as I can tell, it's not supported? Any there any other alternatives that I'm missing?
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