how does this plugin complements babel-node?

[zhenyulin]

I'm using this plugin mainly for writing webpack config with export default.

if I do import webpackConfig from '', it seems babel-node has helped handle the module, and I wouldn't need this plugin.

If I do require('./webpackConfig'), it is treated as an UMD, presumably babel-node doesn't transpile the export, so I need to use this plugin to enable it.

Is the understanding correct?