`$configDir` may not be working correctly

[ICJR]

I believe esbuild-loader is not working correctly with $configDir.

• I'm using the implementation configuration option to bring the latest esbuild package to webpack.
• Typescript base config https://github.com/esportsplus/typescript/blob/main/tsconfig.base.json
• When I extend from another project I do not receive TS errors but when I attempt to bundle I receive cannot find ./src/* file.
• If I update the child tsconfig baseUrl and set to . everything works correctly.
• If I remove ${configDir} from include config, esbuild/webpack build doesn`t throw errors but TS does.

Based on https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/3782 I believe you applied $configDir for paths configuration only, I believe it applies to any path defined within tsconfig ( including exclude and include ).

[evanw]

I believe esbuild-loader is not working correctly with $configDir.

This may be a bug with esbuild-loader instead of with esbuild. Please provide a way to reproduce the issue here that uses esbuild (not esbuild-loader). Note that this is the esbuild repo and esbuild-loader is a separate project (which you can find here). This repo has nothing to do with Webpack.

Based on #3782 I believe you applied $configDir for paths configuration only, I believe it applies to any path defined within tsconfig ( including exclude and include ).

The exclude and include fields are not used by esbuild's bundler: https://esbuild.github.io/content-types/#tsconfig-json. So it would be meaningless for esbuild to apply $configDir to them as it wouldn't have any effect on anything that esbuild does.

[ICJR]

Gotcha, I assumed it had something to do with the bundling package. Thank you.