Prerequisites

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines.
• I agree to follow the Code of Conduct.
• I have searched for existing issues that already report this problem, without success.

Stencil Version

4.19.0

Current Behavior

I consume our component library as a dist-custom-elements in my React project using Vite bundler. Until I used 4.18.3 of @stencil/core, I didn't face this error. Started seeing this from 4.19.0.

Expected Behavior

This error shouldn't be thrown

System Info

System: node 20.12.0
    Platform: darwin (23.5.0)
   CPU Model: Apple M2 (8 cpus)
    Compiler: /Users/xxx/Documents/Projects/yyy/node_modules/@stencil/core/compiler/stencil.js
       Build: 1719433468
     Stencil: 4.19.0 🏄
  TypeScript: 5.4.5
      Rollup: 2.56.3
      Parse5: 7.1.2
      jQuery: 4.0.0-pre
      Terser: 5.31.1

Steps to Reproduce

Ours is a private component library, but install any Stencil-based component library that uses @stencil/core@4.19.0, consume a component from dist-custom-elements and try to build the consuming application.

Code Reproduction URL

NA

Additional Information

FAIL  src/features/Listings/components/DownList/DownList.test.tsx
 ● Test suite failed to run

   Cannot find module '@stencil/core/internal/client' from 'node_modules/comp-lib/dist/components/ou-avatar2.js'

   Require stack:
     node_modules/comp-lib/dist/components/ou-avatar2.js
     node_modules/comp-lib/dist/components/ou-avatar.js
     node_modules/comp-lib-react/dist/src/components/stencil-generated/index.js
     node_modules/comp-lib-react/dist/src/components/index.js
     node_modules/comp-lib-react/dist/src/index.js
     src/features/Listings/components/DownList/DownList.test.tsx