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require() is generated in JS although there's no runtime code
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Description
### 🔎 Search Terms
require generated const enum
namespace require generated
namespace require const enum
namespace require
"export import" require
### ⏯ Playground Link
Multiple files, so can't use playground
### 💻 Code
```ts
// file1.ts
export namespace MyOtherNamespace {
export const enum Yay {
OK,
KO
}
}
```
```ts
// file2.ts
import { MyOtherNamespace } from "./file1";
export namespace MyNamespace {
export import NS2 = MyOtherNamespace;
}
```
```ts
import { MyNamespace } from "./file2.ts";
const val = MyNamespace.NS2.Yay.KO
```
```js
// Compiled code
const file2_1 = require("./file2"); // notice the variable name which is just "filename_1", as it is not used anywhere
const val = 1;
```
### 🙁 Actual behavior
Compiling an unused `const file2_1 = require("./file2");` line
### 🙂 Expected behavior
Do not compile unused line.
### Additional information about the issue
The problem is that this file is a types file, so it is installed only in develpment environment (`npm install -D xxx`) so in runtime it is failing because it can't find the required module.
If I modify the `MyNamespace` namespace to directly export a namespace instead of doing an `export import` it works, but we have a lot of namespaces so we have them separated into files, and couldn't find another way to export an imported namespace inside another namespace.
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