ts-node-esm / --esm to spawn a child process; decouple config loa…

…ding from `create()`; fix pluggable dep resolution (#1655)

* WIP

* lint-fix

* WIP

* it works!

* Update index.ts

* Move `preferTsExts` from `RegisterOptions` to `CreateOptions`

* fix

* fix

* fix tests

* fix?

* fix

* fix?

* fix?

* fix!

* fix

* fix!!

* fix

* fix...

* tweak test lib's suite delimiter to match ava's

* fix

* fix

* docs, fixes

* fix #1662 and add tests

* lint-fix

* test cleanup, remove or cleanup version checks, skip failing tsconfig "extends" tests on TS 2.7

* ensure tests are forced to install and use most recent ts-node tarball and cannot accidentally use project-root nor outdated tarball

* fix absence of fs method on old node

ava.config.cjs

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+const expect = require('expect');
+const { createRequire } = require('module');
+
+module.exports = {
+  files: ['dist/test/**/*.spec.js'],
+  failWithoutAssertions: false,
+  environmentVariables: {
+    ts_node_install_lock: `id-${Math.floor(Math.random() * 10e9)}`,
+    // Force jest expect() errors to generate colorized strings, makes output more readable.
+    // Delete the env var within ava processes via `require` option below.
+    // This avoids passing it to spawned processes under test, which would negatively affect
+    // their behavior.
+    FORCE_COLOR: '3',
+  },
+  require: ['./src/test/remove-env-var-force-color.js'],
+  timeout: '300s',
+  concurrency: 1,
+};
+
+{
+  /*
+   * Tests *must* install and use our most recent ts-node tarball.
+   * We must prevent them from accidentally require-ing a different version of
+   * ts-node, from either node_modules or tests/node_modules
+   */
+
+  const { existsSync } = require('fs');
+  const rimraf = require('rimraf');
+  const { resolve } = require('path');
+
+  remove(resolve(__dirname, 'node_modules/ts-node'));
+  remove(resolve(__dirname, 'tests/node_modules/ts-node'));
+
+  // Prove that we did it correctly
+  expect(() => {createRequire(resolve(__dirname, 'tests/foo.js')).resolve('ts-node')}).toThrow();
+
+  function remove(p) {
+    if(existsSync(p)) rimraf.sync(p, {recursive: true})
+  }
+}

child-loader.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
+import { createRequire } from 'module';
+const require = createRequire(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+
+/** @type {import('./dist/child-loader')} */
+const childLoader = require('./dist/child/child-loader');
+export const { resolve, load, getFormat, transformSource } = childLoader;

dist-raw/node-primordials.js

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 module.exports = {
   ArrayFrom: Array.from,
   ArrayIsArray: Array.isArray,
-  ArrayPrototypeJoin: (obj, separator) => Array.prototype.join.call(obj, separator),
   ArrayPrototypeShift: (obj) => Array.prototype.shift.call(obj),
   ArrayPrototypeForEach: (arr, ...rest) => Array.prototype.forEach.apply(arr, rest),
   ArrayPrototypeIncludes: (arr, ...rest) => Array.prototype.includes.apply(arr, rest),

package.json

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
     "./dist/bin-script.js": "./dist/bin-script.js",
     "./dist/bin-cwd": "./dist/bin-cwd.js",
     "./dist/bin-cwd.js": "./dist/bin-cwd.js",
+    "./dist/bin-esm": "./dist/bin-esm.js",
+    "./dist/bin-esm.js": "./dist/bin-esm.js",
     "./register": "./register/index.js",
     "./register/files": "./register/files.js",
     "./register/transpile-only": "./register/transpile-only.js",
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@
     "./esm.mjs": "./esm.mjs",
     "./esm/transpile-only": "./esm/transpile-only.mjs",
     "./esm/transpile-only.mjs": "./esm/transpile-only.mjs",
+    "./child-loader.mjs": "./child-loader.mjs",
     "./transpilers/swc": "./transpilers/swc.js",
     "./transpilers/swc-experimental": "./transpilers/swc-experimental.js",
     "./node10/tsconfig.json": "./node10/tsconfig.json",
@@ -33,10 +36,11 @@
   "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
   "bin": {
     "ts-node": "dist/bin.js",
-    "ts-script": "dist/bin-script-deprecated.js",
-    "ts-node-script": "dist/bin-script.js",
     "ts-node-cwd": "dist/bin-cwd.js",
-    "ts-node-transpile-only": "dist/bin-transpile.js"
+    "ts-node-esm": "dist/bin-esm.js",
+    "ts-node-script": "dist/bin-script.js",
+    "ts-node-transpile-only": "dist/bin-transpile.js",
+    "ts-script": "dist/bin-script-deprecated.js"
   },
   "files": [
     "/transpilers/",
@@ -46,6 +50,7 @@
     "/register/",
     "/esm/",
     "/esm.mjs",
+    "/child-loader.mjs",
     "/LICENSE",
     "/tsconfig.schema.json",
     "/tsconfig.schemastore-schema.json",

src/bin-esm.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+import { main } from './bin';
+
+main(undefined, { '--esm': true });