google / google/closure-compiler
require with a substitution-free template string is not recognized by process_common_js_modules
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Description
I'm using the compiler with the `process_common_js` option set to `true`.
The following code works fine:
```javascript
/** @const */
const update = require( "./update.js" );
```
However, switching to a substitution-free template string breaks:
```javascript
/** @const */
const update = require( `./update.js` );
```
resulting in:
```
src/main.js:8: ERROR - variable require is undeclared
const update = require( `./update.js` );
^^^^^^^
```
The code style of the project I'm working on imposes template strings wherever syntactically possible (only object keys get a pass and can use double quotes). Of course, this does include paths in `require` statements. Sadly, it seems the CommonJS machinery does not recognize such statements as processable.
As a workaround, I can break from the code style but it is clearly not ideal and it would be really nice if the compiler was able to handle this.
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