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1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

   Looks like Vite writes a temporary file to the file system to work around this issue 👀 https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/77d5165e2f252bfecbb0eebccc6f04dc8be0c5ba/packages/vite/src/node/config.ts#L1172-L1184

   1. patak 4 hr later

      @zachleat We tried to remove the temporary file by using `data:` and had to revert it, but we may try again at one point. That temporary file is a terrible hack.
      https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/13267#issuecomment-1624779173

      1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

         @patak yeah—I don’t blame y’all for going down that road. It would be nice to have a stable vm.Module. It would solve a lot of ESM migration pain!

         1. Zach Leatherman 5 hr later

            @patak in some code paths I use the weird Module#_compile trick to allow dynamic import() in CJS (I think I picked it up from Svelte at one point) https://github.com/zachleat/node-retrieve-globals/blob/4fbf1e474e7fedfa79f847e4ebc5d0d2075f9b27/retrieveGlobals.js#L270-L272 (oh and https://github.com/zachleat/esm-import-transformer/ to transform `import` to dynamic `import` 😓)

            so many tricks!