"import.meta" is not available in the configured target environment ("es6") and will be empty

[philjones88]

Describe the bug

We started to notice this issue recently after upgrading to Vite 3.1.x:

transforming (27) node_modules/react/cjs/react.production.min.js[plugin:vite:esbuild] "import.meta" is not available in the configured target environment ("es6") and will be empty
33 |      backend: {
34 |        loadPath: `${import.meta.env.BASE_URL}locales/{{lng}}/{{ns}}.json`,
   |                     ^
36 |      },
37 |    });

we have "target": "es6", and to fix it we had to change to "target": "es2020", but we're nervous about browser support changes that will be caused by this.

Reproduction

na

System Info

npx envinfo --system --npmPackages '{vite,@vitejs/*}' --binaries --browsers
Need to install the following packages:
  envinfo@7.8.1
Ok to proceed? (y) y

  System:
    OS: macOS 12.5
    CPU: (16) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
    Memory: 3.42 GB / 64.00 GB
    Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.17.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.18 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 8.15.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 105.0.5195.125
    Firefox: 105.0.1
    Safari: 15.6
  npmPackages:
    @vitejs/plugin-react: ^2.1.0 => 2.1.0
    vite: ^3.1.1 => 3.1.3

### Used Package Manager

yarn

### Logs

<details>
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yarn run v1.22.18
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  vite:config } +31ms
vite v3.1.3 building for production...
transforming (5) node_modules/@capacitor/core/dist/index.js[plugin:vite:esbuild] "import.meta" is not available in the configured target environment ("es6") and will be empty
4  |  import { initReactI18next } from 'react-i18next';
5  |
6  |  const debug = import.meta.env.DEV;
   |                ^
7  |  const backendLoadPath = `${import.meta.env.BASE_URL}locales/{{lng}}/{{ns}}.json`;
8  |

[plugin:vite:esbuild] "import.meta" is not available in the configured target environment ("es6") and will be empty
5  |
6  |  const debug = import.meta.env.DEV;
7  |  const backendLoadPath = `${import.meta.env.BASE_URL}locales/{{lng}}/{{ns}}.json`;
   |                             ^
8  |
9  |  i18n

✓ 265 modules transformed.
build/index.html                            1.38 KiB
build/assets/vendor_capacitor.eeb3a963.js   8.23 KiB / gzip: 3.25 KiB
build/assets/index.0f401d36.css             5.95 KiB / gzip: 1.23 KiB
build/assets/vendor_ionic.ccf54ca9.css      21.37 KiB / gzip: 4.04 KiB
build/assets/index.a11c53bb.js              45.54 KiB / gzip: 17.91 KiB
build/assets/vendor_i18next.9bf52241.js     85.74 KiB / gzip: 24.62 KiB
build/assets/vendor_ionic.fc782944.js       487.37 KiB / gzip: 128.78 KiB
✨  Done in 13.87s.

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[sapphi-red]

Duplicate of #10167