Export markExplicitImport

[ggoodman]

Clear and concise description of the problem

When authoring a Plugin, it is sometimes desirable to trick ViteDevServer into thinking that a file is JavaScript even when its extension would normally indicate to Vite otherwise.

For example, it may be desirable to import non-js, non-css files without creating intermediate virtual files with a .js or .css extension. In this situation, we would find ourselves fighting against Vite's built-in logic and wanting to do something like the Import Analysis Plugin (like this).

Suggested solution

Export markExplicitImport and perhaps the corresponding isAbc functions. This would allow Vite to treat these annotations as internal implementation details instead of the sort of accidental public (to plugins) contract.

Alternative

I didn't come up with any.

Additional context

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[bluwy]

Maybe related to #3828 and sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte#60. The idea is to tell Vite what assets are JS and non-JS.

Side topic: This also seems somewhat related to optimizeDeps.extensions, and maybe we could unify it somehow.

[bluwy]

Closing this in favor of #9963 (comment) as it has a linked PR and discussion there (even though it's created later).