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Mikita Himpel
## Request
Add first-class support for loading
capacitor.config.ts
in packages that have
"type": "module"
in their
package.json
.
## Why
More and more teams are migrating their codebases to ESM. Today, a package that contains a Capacitor app cannot opt into
"type": "module"
because Capacitor's config loader is CommonJS-only — it transpiles the TS config to CJS and loads it via
require()
. The moment the package is typed as a module, Node classifies every
.ts
file as ESM and the loader path breaks before user code runs.
The only workarounds are to keep the Capacitor app (and everything next to it) on CommonJS, or to use escape hatches like
.cts
/
.mts
extensions and scoped
type: "commonjs"
overrides. None of these are acceptable for teams going all-in on ESM.
## Impact
Unblocks the ESM migration for every team using Capacitor, and brings the CLI in line with the broader Node and TypeScript ecosystem.