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Ink import behavior

Category: preference

Confidence: 1.00

ID: 01a02958-1037-7620-aafe-b488c584ff56

Project ID: c760f4f9-42b0-4ce0-b36d-6b8c38d770b2

Cross-project: No

Recalled in other projects: 0

Source session: 0LTA21f6eDkLyMX9q

Created: 2026-07-15 15:31:51

Updated: 2026-08-22 12:00:32

Content

The main CLI bundle must never call import("ink") at runtime. Chose a pre-bundled self-contained Ink sidecar, with Ink and React inlined by text-import-plugin, over dynamic importing because runtime imports complicate SEA execution and CJS/React interop. Keep Ink-related dependencies external from the main esbuild bundle only because the sidecar supplies them.