Webpack - ignore loaders in require()?
You can add two exclamation to ignore loaders in the webpack config file
!!raw!file.ts
one exclamation will only disable preloaders!
https://webpack.js.org/concepts/loaders/#inline
As far as I know that is the only way you are going to be able to load a file in two different ways. I expect the issue is that your paths are different in your production build.
I would suggest running webpack with the --display-error-details
flag to get more info on why it fails.