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If one wanted to use Babel instead of the Pulumi runtime to transpile TypeScript, is importing from the build folder the recommended way to do so?

Yeah - you can prepare your `.js` source however you want - and just ensure your `package.json` lists `main: ...` pointing at the entrypoint Pulumi should load.