Encountering an issue with Angular when attempting to configure the Micro frontend Framework (module federation) for both the remote and host applications. They are not located in the same workspace. When running the remote app with "ng serve -o", an error is displayed in the console stating "Uncaught TypeError: The specifier “module” was a bare specifier, but was not remapped to anything. Relative module specifiers must start with “./”, “../” or “/”.". However, running the app without the "-o" flag works fine and the host can access the remote as expected. Upon examining the generated js files at http://localhost:4201/src_app_esg_esg_module_ts-_d58a1.js and http://localhost:4201/src_app_esg_esg_module_ts-_d58a0.js, it was observed that the non-working version has an additional line "import { createRequire as __WEBPACK_EXTERNAL_createRequire } from "module";" at the top of the file, which is not present in the working version. This inconsistency is puzzling and I am keen on identifying the root cause of this problem.
Various attempts were made to address the issue such as updating dependencies, Node version, and Angular version, however, nothing seemed to resolve it. In fact, one approach that involved removing the node_modules and package-lock.json, followed by npm update and npm install rendered both "ng serve" and "ng serve -o" unusable. This aggravation prompted a deeper dive into finding a solution.