Importing Select2 & Laravel Vite

I'm trying to use select2 in my Laravel 10 project, which is using Vite. I kept getting the error

    Uncaught TypeError: $(...).select2 is not a function

My question:

What is the correct way to import select2 in Vite (without having to use a Vite config alias)? What am I doing wrong?

I've run npm i select2 (from my package.json)

    "select2": "^4.1.0-rc.0",
    "vite": "^4.0.0"

I've tried a bunch of different ways of importing but landed on

1. updating my vite.config.js file (simplified for example)

    import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
    import laravel from 'laravel-vite-plugin';
    import path from 'path';
   
    export default defineConfig({
        plugins: [
            laravel({
                input: ['resources/sass/app.scss', 'resources/js/app.js'],
                refresh: true,
            }),
        ],
        resolve: {
            alias: {
                'select2': 'node_modules/select2/dist/js/select2.full.min.js',
   
            }
        },
    });
   

2. using the following in my app.js

    import 'select2';
    import '../../node_modules/select2/dist/css/select2.css';
   

The weird thing is

1. select2 is working
2. I get a console log error: Failed to load url /@fs/node_modules/select2/dist/js/select2.full.min.js (resolved id: /node_modules/select2/dist/js/select2.full.min.js? [...]

To get it working without alias, follow these steps:

1. Install jquery and select2:

npm i jquery select2 --save-dev

2. Edit bootstrap.js for referencing jquery and select2

// import jquery and select2
import $ from "jquery";
import select2 from 'select2';
window.$ = $; // <-- jquery must be set
select2(); // <-- select2 must be called

3. Import select2 CSS in app.js

//-- Select2
import "/node_modules/select2/dist/css/select2.css";
//--
import '../css/app.css';
// ...

Now you can use it in your components:

$('.js-example-basic-single').select2();