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Comment

It says "in the output file's format based on the 'module' setting" here, but targeting an output format that isn't ESM just gives an error, because it's 100% verbatim and won't transpile it into a require() call.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/verbatimModuleSyntax.html