fix(app-vite): correctly get path for ESM only packages without a "main" field #17880

Author: rstoenescu

app-vite/lib/utils/get-package-path.js

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 import { createRequire } from 'node:module'
+import { resolvePathSync } from 'mlly'
 
+/**
+ * Eventually replace by the native import.meta.resolve() method
+ * when it is out of "experimental" status with no node flags required.
+ */
 const require = createRequire(import.meta.url)
 
 /**
@@ -11,6 +16,13 @@ export function getPackagePath (pkgName, dir) {
     process.exit(1)
   }
 
+  try {
+    return resolvePathSync(pkgName, { url: dir })
+  }
+  catch (_) {
+    /* do nothing, let the next method try as well */
+  }
+
   try {
     return require.resolve(pkgName, {
       paths: [ dir ]

app-vite/package.json

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
     "kolorist": "^1.8.0",
     "lodash": "^4.17.21",
     "minimist": "^1.2.8",
+    "mlly": "^1.7.4",
     "open": "^10.1.0",
     "rollup-plugin-visualizer": "^5.13.1",
     "sass-embedded": "^1.83.0",