The entry point "react" cannot be marked as external

[belzile]

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Describe the bug

Although, it is probably the intended behaviour, I need React declared as external.

I am wondering what I could do to get this plugin working.

I am getting

• The entry point "react" cannot be marked as external
• The entry point "react-dom" cannot be marked as external

I need it because my application is built around "micro-frontends", I have multiple React component defined in different projects, but React is provided to them externally via an import map. There has to be only one React, otherwise it does not work.

Any way we could make that use case work?

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[ArnaudBarre]

See the commented issue. This for now a Vite limitation and not something specific to React.

Actually I found a way to workaround the unexpected behaviour in dev: https://stackblitz.com/edit/vite-importmap?file=vite.config.ts&terminal=dev