src: swap dotenv and config file parsing order

Signed-off-by: Marco Ippolito <marcoippolito54@gmail.com>
PR-URL: #63035
Reviewed-By: Ethan Arrowood <ethan@arrowood.dev>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>

Author: marco-ippolito

doc/api/cli.md

@@ -1020,12 +1020,12 @@ node --import amaro/strip --watch-path=src --watch-preserve-output --test-isolat
 The priority in configuration is as follows:
 
 1. NODE\_OPTIONS and command-line options
-2. Configuration file
-3. Dotenv NODE\_OPTIONS
+2. Dotenv NODE\_OPTIONS
+3. Configuration file
 
 Values in the configuration file will not override the values in the environment
-variables and command-line options, but will override the values in the `NODE_OPTIONS`
-env file parsed by the `--env-file` flag.
+variables, command-line options, or the `NODE_OPTIONS` env file parsed by the
+`--env-file` flag.
 
 Keys cannot be duplicated within the same or different namespaces.
 

src/node.cc

@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@ static ExitCode InitializeNodeWithArgsInternal(
   HandleEnvOptions(per_process::cli_options->per_isolate->per_env);
 
   std::string node_options;
+  std::string node_options_from_dotenv;
   auto env_files = node::Dotenv::GetDataFromArgs(*argv);
 
   if (!env_files.empty()) {
@@ -905,7 +906,8 @@ static ExitCode InitializeNodeWithArgsInternal(
       }
     }
 
-    per_process::dotenv_file.AssignNodeOptionsIfAvailable(&node_options);
+    per_process::dotenv_file.AssignNodeOptionsIfAvailable(
+        &node_options_from_dotenv);
   }
 
   std::string node_options_from_config;
@@ -935,9 +937,10 @@ static ExitCode InitializeNodeWithArgsInternal(
       errors->emplace_back("The number of NODE_OPTIONS doesn't match "
                            "the number of flags in the config file");
     }
-    node_options += node_options_from_config;
   }
 
+  node_options = node_options_from_config + node_options_from_dotenv;
+
 #if !defined(NODE_WITHOUT_NODE_OPTIONS)
   bool should_parse_node_options =
       !(flags & ProcessInitializationFlags::kDisableNodeOptionsEnv);

src/node_dotenv.cc

@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ void Dotenv::AssignNodeOptionsIfAvailable(std::string* node_options) const {
   auto match = store_.find("NODE_OPTIONS");
 
   if (match != store_.end()) {
-    *node_options = match->second;
+    *node_options = " " + match->second;
   }
 }
 

test/parallel/test-config-file.js

@@ -92,17 +92,17 @@ test('should throw an error when a flag is declared twice', async () => {
   assert.strictEqual(result.code, 9);
 });
 
-test('should override env-file', onlyWithAmaroAndNodeOptions, async () => {
+test('should not override env-file', onlyWithAmaroAndNodeOptions, async () => {
   const result = await spawnPromisified(process.execPath, [
     '--no-warnings',
     '--experimental-config-file',
     fixtures.path('rc/transform-types.json'),
     '--env-file', fixtures.path('dotenv/node-options-no-tranform.env'),
     fixtures.path('typescript/ts/transformation/test-enum.ts'),
   ]);
-  assert.strictEqual(result.stderr, '');
-  assert.match(result.stdout, /Hello, TypeScript!/);
-  assert.strictEqual(result.code, 0);
+  assert.match(result.stderr, /SyntaxError/);
+  assert.strictEqual(result.stdout, '');
+  assert.strictEqual(result.code, 1);
 });
 
 test('should not override NODE_OPTIONS', onlyWithAmaro, async () => {