diff --git a/packages/meta/src/node-es-module-loader/loader.mts b/packages/meta/src/node-es-module-loader/loader.mts
index 253634a881..cb407879e0 100644
--- a/packages/meta/src/node-es-module-loader/loader.mts
+++ b/packages/meta/src/node-es-module-loader/loader.mts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ interface TsConfig {
 }
 
 // Read and parse tsconfig.base.json
-const workspaceRoot = join(import.meta.dirname, '..', '..', '..', '..')
+const workspaceRoot = join(import.meta.dirname, '..', '..', '..', '..');
 const tsconfigPath = join(workspaceRoot, 'tsconfig.base.json');
 const tsconfig: TsConfig = JSON.parse(readFileSync(tsconfigPath, 'utf-8'));
 const pathAliases = tsconfig.compilerOptions.paths;
diff --git a/packages/php-wasm/universal/src/lib/php-worker.ts b/packages/php-wasm/universal/src/lib/php-worker.ts
index 65dac7d7b3..d6ff16d607 100644
--- a/packages/php-wasm/universal/src/lib/php-worker.ts
+++ b/packages/php-wasm/universal/src/lib/php-worker.ts
@@ -194,11 +194,23 @@ export class PHPWorker implements LimitedPHPApi, AsyncDisposable {
 		options?: { env?: Record<string, string> }
 	): Promise<StreamedPHPResponse> {
 		const { php, reap } = await this.acquirePHPInstance();
+		let response: StreamedPHPResponse;
 		try {
-			return await php.cli(argv, options);
-		} finally {
+			response = await php.cli(argv, options);
+		} catch (error) {
 			reap();
+			throw error;
 		}
+		/**
+		 * Register the reap() callback to run asynchronously once
+		 * the response is finished.
+		 *
+		 * We don't await for response.finished here. It is a
+		 * `StreamedPHPResponse` instance and the caller may want
+		 * to start processing the streamed data immediately.
+		 */
+		response.finished.finally(reap);
+		return response;
 	}
 
 	/** @inheritDoc @php-wasm/universal!/PHP.chdir */
diff --git a/packages/playground/cli/tests/run-cli.spec.ts b/packages/playground/cli/tests/run-cli.spec.ts
index 4262b8f833..06593c490d 100644
--- a/packages/playground/cli/tests/run-cli.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/playground/cli/tests/run-cli.spec.ts
@@ -631,5 +631,5 @@ describe.each(blueprintVersions)(
 			});
 		});
 	},
-	60000
+	60_000 * 5
 );