Webpack 4 import fails

[RafalDardzinski]

I'm using webpack@4.46.0 along with typescript@4.9.5 . I'm trying to use @cortex-js/compute-engine@0.12.2. When I try to import ComputeEngine according to the documentation...
import { ComputeEngine } from "@cortex-js/compute-engine/dist/compute-engine.min"

...I get an error on build:
ERROR in ./node_modules/@cortex-js/compute-engine/dist/compute-engine.min.js 2:42147 Module parse failed: Unexpected token (2:42147) You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type, currently no loaders are configured to process this file. See https://webpack.js.org/concepts#loaders | /** CortexJS Compute Engine 0.12.2 */

I thought it's something with my webpack config, but the problem also occurs on newly setup project with basic webpack configuration that supports typescript. On the side-note, importing mathlive works fine.

[kobelinh24]

I'm trying to do import '@cortex-js/compute-engine'; while building a web component, also got the same error while compiling:
../node_modules/@cortex-js/compute-engine/dist/compute-engine.min.esm.js 2:42173 Module parse failed: Unexpected token (2:42173) You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.

Mathlive indeed works as indicated.

Any update on this as this long-opened issue?

[arnog]

I haven't investigated this issue. It would help if someone could provide code that reproduces the problem.

That said, I suspect it's related to the fact that Webpack 4 does not support optional chaining (the ?. operator). Webpack 5 should support it, though.

See webpack/webpack#10227 (comment) for a discussion on a possible workaround.