From cebc78406b375ab464a7af4050cfcff8f4e64803 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Walker <walkerrunpdx@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 22:40:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] feat(webpack): enable esm modules as default

---
 packages/webpack5/src/configuration/base.ts | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/webpack5/src/configuration/base.ts b/packages/webpack5/src/configuration/base.ts
index 1345be347..2f762aeb7 100644
--- a/packages/webpack5/src/configuration/base.ts
+++ b/packages/webpack5/src/configuration/base.ts
@@ -124,11 +124,19 @@ export default function (config: Config, env: IWebpackEnv = _env): Config {
 			.add('@nativescript/core/inspector_modules');
 	});
 
+	config.merge({
+		experiments: {
+			// enable ES module syntax (import/exports)
+			outputModule: true,
+		},
+	});
+
 	config.output
 		.path(outputPath)
 		.pathinfo(false)
 		.publicPath('')
-		.libraryTarget('commonjs')
+		.set('module', true)
+		.libraryTarget('module')
 		.globalObject('global')
 		.set('clean', true);