How to set Pug basedir in Quasar 2 vite app

Question

I am migrating a Quasar 1 (webpack) project to Quasar 2 (vite). The project heavily relies on pug templates using the extends functionality. In order to use relative paths in the extends I need to set a basedir for the pug-loader.

I installed the vite-plugin-pug plugin and tried this in quasar.config.js but it doesn't seem to work:

vitePlugins: [
                ['vite-plugin-pug', {
                    basedir: path.resolve(__dirname),
                }],
],

I keep getting the "[plugin:vite:vue] the "basedir" option is required to use includes and extends with "absolute" paths" error.