Web worker file '404 not found' after Vite/Vue3 build

I am trying to test using web workers in a Vite app, and when I run npm run dev it works as intended, but when I use npm run build and then use http-server in the dist folder, I get the error: "GET /workers/test.worker.ts" Error (404): "Not found"

My Vite app is the generic starter template with these sole additions:

@/stores/counter.ts

/* ... Inside Default Pinia Store ... */
function webworkerTest() {
    console.log("this is a test message, wahoo!!");
    const workerPath = "../workers/test.worker.ts";

    const worker = new Worker(new URL(workerPath, import.meta.url), {
      type: "module",
    }); 
// Note the same setup as the Vite docs, although without {type: "module"} the console
// throws "404 (Not Found)" -from build- or "Unexpected token 'export'" -from dev-

    console.log(workerPath, worker);
    worker.addEventListener("message", (message) => {
      console.log(message);
    });
    worker.postMessage("this is a test message to the worker");
  }
/* ... Insert webworkerTest into Default Pinia Store return statement ... */

@/workers/test.worker.ts

console.log("hello from a webworker");

addEventListener("message", (message) => {
  console.log("in webworker", message);
  postMessage("this is the response " + message.data);
});

// To avoid --isolatedModules error
export {};

@/components/HelloWorld.vue

<script setup lang="ts">
import { useCounterStore } from "@/stores/counter";
const counterStore = useCounterStore();
counterStore.webworkerTest(); // Activate the test worker

defineProps<{
  msg: string;
}>();
</script>

Vite Options:

• Vue 3
• TypeScript
• Pinia
• ESLint
• Prettier

Sources:

• Vite Docs
• MDN Web Worker Docs
• TypeScript Web Worker Example
• How do I compile web workers with vue3+vite? - Stack Overflow

Notes:

• I am fairly new to TypeScript and its various config options, although I have experience with C++ and JS
• I am using Composition API both in the Pinia store and the Vue SFCs
• I have even played around with the location of the test.worker.ts file, without any progress

Update:

I have experimented with the other option, Import with Query Suffixes, and it works in both dev and build, but I don't know how or why it works and I'm not sure what to search for in order to learn more, so I made a separate post here to try and get some insight.