Feature Request: transpile only

[ghost]

Webpack 4 will have native support for JSON, with tree shaking.

Could we add an option to transpile JSON5 to JSON without the module.exports, so webpack 4 can use its native JSON loader?

[PatrickJS]

oh interesting. can you make a PR?

[G-Rath]

Any update on this? Also, based on this issue, could I get some clarification on what this loader actually does currently, if it's not transpiling it?

I'd have expected the loader to transpile JSON5 into JSON, and just export that as an object, but that'd mean this issue is already implemented?

Does the loader write it to a file or something instead?

[alexander-akait]

Done for webpack@5