Allow aliases in node_modules to be processed by vite plugins

[maitlandmarshall]

Description

I'm developing a framework where a file is generated at runtime called "data-models.ts". I have aliases to data-models.ts via "#data-models". Because the files which reference "#data-models" are within the node_modules directory when packaged, vite will not process these files to replace the alias.

Suggested solution

Allow vite to process specific files within node_modules with plugins.

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[elias-pap]

Might be related: #16512

[hi-ogawa]

@maitlandmarshall Can you provide an example project to show the alias issue? From a quick guess, it might be due to deps optimization and you might need to do optimizeDeps.exclude: ["your-package-which-uses-alias"].

[maitlandmarshall]

@hi-ogawa thank you, that led me in the right direction to resolve my problem. I had to do this:

// Exclude @webui/lib from optimizeDeps so that the #data-models alias may be resolved
optimizeDeps: {
    exclude: ["@webui/lib"],
    include: ["@webui/lib > lodash", "@webui/lib > numeral", "@webui/lib > guid-typescript"]
},