diff --git a/desktop/babel-transformer/src/electron-requires-server.tsx b/desktop/babel-transformer/src/electron-requires-server.tsx
index 25e312408..77758680f 100644
--- a/desktop/babel-transformer/src/electron-requires-server.tsx
+++ b/desktop/babel-transformer/src/electron-requires-server.tsx
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {CallExpression} from '@babel/types';
 import {NodePath} from '@babel/traverse';
 
 import {resolve} from 'path';
-import {BUILTINS} from './electron-requires';
+import {BUILTINS, IGNORED_MODULES} from './electron-requires';
 
 const pluginsRootDir = resolve(__dirname, '../../plugins');
 
@@ -44,7 +44,13 @@ module.exports = () => ({
             // yet we should exclude built-ins
             !(
               BUILTINS.includes(source) ||
-              BUILTINS.some((moduleName) => source.startsWith(`${moduleName}/`))
+              BUILTINS.some((moduleName) =>
+                source.startsWith(`${moduleName}/`),
+              ) ||
+              IGNORED_MODULES.includes(source) ||
+              IGNORED_MODULES.some((moduleName) =>
+                source.startsWith(`${moduleName}/`),
+              )
             ))
         ) {
           return;
diff --git a/desktop/babel-transformer/src/electron-requires.tsx b/desktop/babel-transformer/src/electron-requires.tsx
index 3bec31215..04a21078b 100644
--- a/desktop/babel-transformer/src/electron-requires.tsx
+++ b/desktop/babel-transformer/src/electron-requires.tsx
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ export const BUILTINS = [
   '@testing-library/dom',
 ];
 
-const IGNORED_MODULES = [
+export const IGNORED_MODULES = [
   'bufferutil',
   'utf-8-validate',
   'spawn-sync',
@@ -92,3 +92,4 @@ module.exports = () => ({
 
 // used by startWebServerDev to know which modules to stub
 module.exports.BUILTINS = BUILTINS;
+module.exports.IGNORED_MODULES = IGNORED_MODULES;