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Conflict between data-presets and data-targets #17769

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How are you using Babel?

babel-loader (webpack)

Input code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Demo</title>

  <script type="importmap">
    {
      "imports": {
        "react": "https://esm.sh/react@18",
        "react-dom/client": "https://esm.sh/react-dom@18/client"
      }
    }
  </script>
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="root"></div>
  <script type="text/babel" data-type="module">
    import React from "react";
    import ReactDOMClient from "react-dom/client";
    const root = ReactDOMClient.createRoot(document.getElementById('root'));
    root.render(React.createElement('h1', null, 'Hello, world!'));
  </script>
</body>
</html>

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In previous Babel (< 7.29.0), the above code snippet works well. However, after 7.29.0, where data-targets is introduced, there will be an error Uncaught Error: .targets["esmodules"] must be a boolean, or undefined thrown.

Taking a quick look, it seems like because here

targets.esmodules = "intersect";
will add targets.esmodules = "intersect";, if we specify type="text/babel" (for browser ESM to work), it will always add this default value. However, this default value is invalid according to
assertBoolean(esmodulesLoc, value.esmodules);

Environment

  • @babel/standalone@7.29.0
  • Chrome 144.0.7559.98

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