sanitize-html shows "Module 'path' has been externalized" warnings — how to hide them?

I’m using sanitize-html in my Angular app (with Vite), and I don’t want to replace it because it works great.

Packages:

"@types/sanitize-html": "^2.16.0",
"sanitize-html": "^2.17.0",
"@angular/core": "~19.2.0"


Code:

import sanitizeHtml, { IOptions } from 'sanitize-html';

export class Clipboard {
onPaste(range: Range, { text, html }: { text?: string; html?: string }): void {
html = html?.replace(`<meta charset='utf-8'>`, '');
html = (html && sanitizeHtml(html, this.options as IOptions)) || html;
this.fn(range, { html, text });
}
}


When I run Angular with Vite, I get a lot of warnings like this:

Module "path" has been externalized for browser compatibility.
Cannot access "path.isAbsolute" in client code.
See https://vite.dev/guide/troubleshooting.html#module-externalized-for-browser-compatibility for more details.


All of them come from sanitize-html. The library still works fine at runtime, but the warnings are noisy.

Question: How can I tell Angular/Vite to stop showing these warnings for sanitize-html? I’m not looking for a replacement library — just a way to suppress these messages.



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