fix(build,dev): respect NODE_PATH when loading kit/nuxt

#1090

Author: danielroe

packages/nuxi/src/dev/utils.ts

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ import { joinURL } from 'ufo'
 import { showVersionsFromConfig } from '../utils/banner'
 import { clearBuildDir } from '../utils/fs'
 import { loadKit } from '../utils/kit'
-
 import { loadNuxtManifest, resolveNuxtManifest, writeNuxtManifest } from '../utils/nuxt'
+import { withNodePath } from '../utils/paths'
 import { renderError } from './error'
 
 export type NuxtParentIPCMessage
@@ -561,8 +561,8 @@ function createConfigDirWatcher(cwd: string, onReload: (file: string) => void) {
 
 // Nuxt <3.6 did not have the loading template defined in the schema
 async function resolveLoadingTemplate(cwd: string): Promise<({ loading }: { loading?: string }) => string> {
-  const nuxtPath = resolveModulePath('nuxt', { from: cwd, try: true })
-  const uiTemplatesPath = resolveModulePath('@nuxt/ui-templates', { from: nuxtPath || cwd })
+  const nuxtPath = resolveModulePath('nuxt', { from: withNodePath(cwd), try: true })
+  const uiTemplatesPath = resolveModulePath('@nuxt/ui-templates', { from: withNodePath(nuxtPath || cwd) })
   const r: { loading: (opts?: { loading?: string }) => string } = await import(pathToFileURL(uiTemplatesPath).href)
 
   return r.loading || ((params: { loading: string }) => `<h2>${params.loading}</h2>`)

packages/nuxi/src/utils/kit.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
 import { resolveModulePath } from 'exsolve'
+import { withNodePath } from './paths'
 
 export async function loadKit(rootDir: string): Promise<typeof import('@nuxt/kit')> {
   try {
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ export async function loadKit(rootDir: string): Promise<typeof import('@nuxt/kit
 
 export function tryResolveNuxt(rootDir: string) {
   for (const pkg of ['nuxt-nightly', 'nuxt', 'nuxt3', 'nuxt-edge']) {
-    const path = resolveModulePath(pkg, { from: rootDir, try: true })
+    const path = resolveModulePath(pkg, { from: withNodePath(rootDir), try: true })
     if (path) {
       return path
     }

packages/nuxi/src/utils/paths.ts

@@ -6,3 +6,7 @@ const cwd = process.cwd()
 export function relativeToProcess(path: string) {
   return relative(cwd, path) || path
 }
+
+export function withNodePath(path: string) {
+  return [path, process.env.NODE_PATH].filter((i): i is NonNullable<typeof i> => !!i)
+}