Class A cannot instantiate an object B that inherit from A

[imabot2]

Bug report

What is the current behavior?

I try to write a class A that instantiate an object B that inherit from A?

I get the following error on runtime

a.js:3 Uncaught ReferenceError: Cannot access 'A' before initialization
    at Module.default (a.js:3:56)
    at eval (b.js:3:32)
    at ./src/js/b.js (bundle.425598c….js:723:1)
    at __webpack_require__ (bundle.425598c….js:1278:41)
    at eval (a.js:5:63)
    at ./src/js/a.js (bundle.425598c….js:712:1)
    at __webpack_require__ (bundle.425598c….js:1278:41)
    at eval (index.js:2:63)
    at ./src/js/index.js (bundle.425598c….js:821:1)
    at __webpack_require__ (bundle.425598c….js:1278:41)

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

I use 3 files:

index.js

import A from "./a.js";
let a = new A();
a.fct();

a.js

import B from "./b.js"
    
export default class A {
  constructor() {
    console.log ("a constructor")
  }
  fct() {
    this.b = new B();
  }
}

b.js

import A from "./a.js"
    
export default class B extends A {
  constructor() {
    console.log ("b constructor")
  }
}

What is the expected behavior?

It shouldn't trigger an error at runtime. Since this is technically possible in JS as prooven on this JSFiddle

Other relevant information:
webpack version: 5.82.0
Node.js version: 18.16.0
Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04
Additional tools: -

[alexander-akait]

Fixed #17233, release will be in wednesday

[alexander-akait]

Anyway, you will have problems ReferenceError: Cannot access 'A' before initialization, if you will use this code, you can try it without webpack in browser and will see the same

Or you don't provide full reproducible code...