fix: use async config loading if available

[the-spyke]

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Fixes #824

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If @babel/core is >=7.8.0, then ESM config will be found and loaded asynchronously.

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[the-spyke]

I have no idea why sourcemaps test fails on Windows in my branch. Probably, some dependency in the newer Babel returns broken Windows paths.

[JLHwung]

the AppVeyor CI error is not directly related to this change, but babel changed some path related behaviour from 7.2.0 to 7.8.0

[the-spyke]

@JLHwung C:/projects/babel-loader/test/fixtures/basic.js definitely looks wrong.

[nicolo-ribaudo]

Thanks!
We can investigate that failure separately if needed.

Approved too early 😅

[nicolo-ribaudo]

Can we differentiate this test based on process.version?

[the-spyke]

I was thinking about it, but I don't know if Node team will backport ESM to 12 or even 10 in the future and this test begin to fail. But okay, I'll redo it with semver check of Node version. As I remember 13.3 was the first one without --experimental flag.

[nicolo-ribaudo]

Let's only test in on 13.3 for now. If they'll backport it we can update the test.

[the-spyke]

Done

[the-spyke]

So, I've tried to overcome ESM loading on Window. But even in case of using file urls according to Node it fails. This time because of request@1.12.0 even on Linux:

Module build failed (from ./lib/index.js):
   Error: Cannot find module 'file:///home/user/babel-loader/test/fixtures/babelrc.mjs' from '/home/user/babel-loader'
       at /home/user/babel-loader/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:97:35
       at processDirs (/home/user/babel-loader/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:244:39)
       at isdir (/home/user/babel-loader/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:251:32)
       at /home/user/babel-loader/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:23:69
       at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (fs.js:166:21)

[nicolo-ribaudo]

The windows bug should be fixed by babel/babel#11193.
I'm taking a look at the resolve failure.

[the-spyke]

@nicolo-ribaudo So, what do we do? Leave local path as it is now, rollback to pathToUrl and wait till it's fixed, or rollback and merge now?

[nicolo-ribaudo]

Let's wait for now, I'll release a patch version when there Babel PR is fixed.

[nishantjr]

Can this be merged now?

[nicolo-ribaudo]

Thanks!