[Bug?]: PNP incompatible with Vite 8 (rolldown)

[rgischk]

Self-service

• I'd be willing to implement a fix

Describe the bug

I just upgraded a project to using Vite 8 (with rolldown instead of esbuild and rollup). After the upgrade I was no longer able to build my project, because rolldown is unable to resolve imports.

Changing the nodeLinker from pnp to node-modules fixes the problem.

To reproduce

1. Create a new project using Vite 7 and pnp linker
2. Build the project successfully
3. Upgrade to Vite 8
4. Building the project fails

Environment

Vite 8

Additional context

I assume this happens because the pnp linker changes how modules are resolved. Since rolldown is using native code (Rust) it is probably impossible to patch it like it is done for typescript.

I have not tested this, but I additionally assume that this issue will also occur when using other native build tools, like tsgo, oxlint or oxfmt.

[arcanis]

Rolldown uses oxc-resolver which has support for PnP, but there's perhaps a bug somewhere to investigate 🤔

[NormalGaussian]

I just upgraded a small project to vite 8, and am not experiencing this issue. I set an agent to duplicate it (because its concerning) and it didn't duplicate it. The project builds, dev's, and runs fine.

I also had an agent create one from scratch as you described, and couldn't duplicate.

Ubuntu 24.04:

ll -h .yarn/cache/ | grep -P "(oxc|roll)"
-rw-r--r-- 1 eoin eoin 280K Mar 14 14:47 @oxc-project-runtime-npm-0.115.0-6e2d8836fb-8890518172.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 eoin eoin  45K Mar 14 14:47 @oxc-project-types-npm-0.115.0-a8db858ee0-47fc31eb3f.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 eoin eoin  20M Mar 14 14:47 @rolldown-binding-linux-x64-gnu-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-e814c52462-10c0.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 eoin eoin 744K Mar 14 14:47 rolldown-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-144204c709-d19af14dcc.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 eoin eoin  28K Mar 14 14:43 @rolldown-pluginutils-npm-1.0.0-beta.27-108701b3b0-9658f235b3.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 eoin eoin  27K Mar 14 14:47 @rolldown-pluginutils-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-392b2a3c87-fca488fb96.zip

Is there anything about your spec / config to note?

[psychobolt]

Ran into one issue, issues could be OS environment specific: rolldown/rolldown#8699

Update: It seems Rolldown-Vite build will only fail if I set the globalFolder to my non-system drive.

globalFolder: D:/.yarn/berry

Changing D: to C: or removing D:/ resolves my issue. Not sure if this a bug or which project is the cultprit, Rolldown. Yarn , OXC, or Vite. But workaround seems to work for me. Surprising cross drive works when my project is on a non-system drive.

[rgischk]

Sorry, my initial bug report was very brief, I expected this to be easily reproducible and didn't bother providing any details. But I guess I was wrong. So here are some more details:

To reproduce

1. From the official Vite "Getting Started" guide, open the "JavaScript react" example: https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-f7a9rdcz?file=index.html&terminal=dev
2. Download the project and unzip it locally.
3. Run the command yarn set version stable to switch the package manager
4. Run the command yarn install to install dependencies
5. Run the command yarn build to build the project

Environment

  System:
    OS: Windows 11 10.0.26100
    CPU: (16) x64 AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics
  Binaries:
    Node: 24.14.0 - C:\Users\GISCHK~1\AppData\Local\Temp\xfs-767abb69\node.CMD
    Yarn: 4.13.0 - C:\Users\GISCHK~1\AppData\Local\Temp\xfs-767abb69\yarn.CMD
    npm: 11.9.0 - C:\nvm4w\nodejs\npm.CMD

Note: My global yarnrc.yml contains some settings related to using an NPM registry mirror, those should not be relevant though. Everything else, like node-linker or settings related to the global/cache folder are not defined.

Full log

C:\dev\yarn-react-vite8>yarn set version stable
➤ YN0000: You don't seem to have Corepack enabled; we'll have to rely on yarnPath instead
➤ YN0000: Downloading https://repo.yarnpkg.com/4.13.0/packages/yarnpkg-cli/bin/yarn.js
➤ YN0000: Saving the new release in .yarn/releases/yarn-4.13.0.cjs
➤ YN0000: Done with warnings in 0s 235ms

C:\dev\yarn-react-vite8>yarn
➤ YN0000: · Yarn 4.13.0
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0085: │ + @eslint/js@npm:9.39.4, @types/react-dom@npm:19.2.3, and 234 more.
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 1s 175ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0000: │ ESM support for PnP uses the experimental loader API and is therefore experimental
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 0s 426ms
➤ YN0000: · Done with warnings in 1s 755ms

C:\dev\yarn-react-vite8>yarn build
vite v8.0.0 building client environment for production...
✓ 14 modules transformed.
computing gzip size...
dist/index.html                  0.46 kB │ gzip: 0.29 kB
dist/assets/react-CHdo91hT.svg   4.12 kB │ gzip: 2.06 kB
dist/assets/vite-BF8QNONU.svg    8.70 kB │ gzip: 1.60 kB
dist/assets/hero-5sT3BiRD.png   44.91 kB
dist/assets/index-DykytF2W.css   4.10 kB │ gzip: 1.47 kB
dist/assets/index-4QlHXfj_.js    5.21 kB │ gzip: 1.75 kB

✗ Build failed in 110ms
error during build:
Build failed with 1 error:

Error: [vite]: Rolldown failed to resolve import "react-dom/client" from "C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/src/main.jsx".
This is most likely unintended because it can break your application at runtime.
If you do want to externalize this module explicitly add it to
`build.rollupOptions.external`
    at viteLog (file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/node.js:32887:57)
    at file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/node.js:32923:71
    at onwarn (file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/@vitejs-plugin-react-virtual-3980240134/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/@vitejs-plugin-react-npm-6.0.1-eedf26ac1e-10c0.zip/node_modules/@vitejs/plugin-react/dist/index.js:40:7)
    at file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/node.js:32923:28
    at onRollupLog (file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/node.js:32918:63)
    at onLog (file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/node.js:32688:4)
    at file:///C:/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/rolldown-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-144204c709-10c0.zip/node_modules/rolldown/dist/shared/rolldown-build-4YnQkA76.mjs:49:26
    at logger (file:///C:/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/rolldown-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-144204c709-10c0.zip/node_modules/rolldown/dist/shared/rolldown-build-4YnQkA76.mjs:40:3)
    at onLog (file:///C:/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/rolldown-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-144204c709-10c0.zip/node_modules/rolldown/dist/shared/bindingify-input-options-Cu7pt6SZ.mjs:1945:32)
    at aggregateBindingErrorsIntoJsError (file:///C:/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/rolldown-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-144204c709-10c0.zip/node_modules/rolldown/dist/shared/error-CP8smW_P.mjs:48:18)
    at unwrapBindingResult (file:///C:/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/rolldown-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-144204c709-10c0.zip/node_modules/rolldown/dist/shared/error-CP8smW_P.mjs:18:128)
    at #build (file:///C:/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/rolldown-npm-1.0.0-rc.9-144204c709-10c0.zip/node_modules/rolldown/dist/shared/rolldown-build-4YnQkA76.mjs:3311:34)
    at async buildEnvironment (file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/node.js:32794:64)
    at async Object.build (file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/node.js:33216:19)
    at async Object.buildApp (file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/node.js:33213:153)
    at async CAC.<anonymous> (file:///C:/dev/yarn-react-vite8/.yarn/__virtual__/vite-virtual-19dc1af5bc/3/Users/gischkowski/AppData/Local/Yarn/Berry/cache/vite-npm-8.0.0-259ca3eb1b-10c0.zip/node_modules/vite/dist/node/cli.js:778:3) {
  errors: [Getter/Setter]
}

[Tobbe]

The Vite team is probably not going to support Yarn PnP going forward vitejs/vite#21906

[psychobolt]

The Vite team is probably not going to support Yarn PnP going forward vitejs/vite#21906

https://yarn6.netlify.app/concepts/pnp/#ecosystem-compatibility

In that last case we worked with the relevant teams to implement native support Yarn Plug’n’Play in their pipeline. This work was made easier thanks to the Plug’n’Play specification and the pnp-rs crate, which explain how to implement Plug’n’Play support outside of Node.js environments.

Today, Yarn Plug’n’Play is supported natively by Vite, Webpack, Esbuild, Rspack, Eslint, and many more.

@arcanis So pnp-rs will be used by Vite or not?

My thoughts: I guess not directly? Vite is using Rolldown/OXC but hasn't totally ported everything to Rust. The parts failing are on file emit/loading (Rolldown's end) and module resolve (Vite's end)?

[NormalGaussian]

No issues building here; I'm on Ubuntu - this may be a windows issue.

Full Log

0|eoin@Vin|HEAD:|~/Coding/tmp/yarn-vite-8 (0.o)
cp ~/Downloads/vitejs-vite-f7a9rdcz.zip 
cp: missing destination file operand after '/home/eoin/Downloads/vitejs-vite-f7a9rdcz.zip'
Try 'cp --help' for more information.
1|eoin@Vin|HEAD:|~/Coding/tmp/yarn-vite-8 (0.o)
cp ~/Downloads/vitejs-vite-f7a9rdcz.zip .
0|eoin@Vin|HEAD:|~/Coding/tmp/yarn-vite-8 (0.o)
unzip vitejs-vite-f7a9rdcz.zip 
Archive:  vitejs-vite-f7a9rdcz.zip
   creating: src/
   creating: public/
 extracting: README.md               
 extracting: .gitignore              
 extracting: index.html              
   creating: src/assets/
 extracting: src/App.css             
 extracting: src/App.jsx             
 extracting: package.json            
 extracting: src/main.jsx            
 extracting: src/index.css           
 extracting: vite.config.js          
 extracting: eslint.config.js        
 extracting: public/icons.svg        
 extracting: package-lock.json       
 extracting: public/favicon.svg      
 extracting: src/assets/hero.png     
 extracting: src/assets/vite.svg     
 extracting: src/assets/react.svg    
0|eoin@Vin|HEAD:|~/Coding/tmp/yarn-vite-8 (0.o)
yarn set version stable
➤ YN0000: Done in 0s 2ms
0|eoin@Vin|HEAD:|~/Coding/tmp/yarn-vite-8 (0.o)
yarn install
➤ YN0000: · Yarn 4.13.0
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0085: │ + @eslint/js@npm:9.39.4, and 231 more.
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 0s 433ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0013: │ 207 packages were added to the project (+ 95.04 MiB).
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0000: │ ESM support for PnP uses the experimental loader API and is therefore experimental
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 0s 209ms
➤ YN0000: · Done with warnings in 0s 789ms
0|eoin@Vin|HEAD:|~/Coding/tmp/yarn-vite-8 (0.o)
yarn build
vite v8.0.2 building client environment for production...
✓ 20 modules transformed.
computing gzip size...
dist/index.html                   0.46 kB │ gzip:  0.29 kB
dist/assets/react-CHdo91hT.svg    4.12 kB │ gzip:  2.06 kB
dist/assets/vite-BF8QNONU.svg     8.70 kB │ gzip:  1.60 kB
dist/assets/hero-5sT3BiRD.png    44.91 kB
dist/assets/index-DykytF2W.css    4.10 kB │ gzip:  1.47 kB
dist/assets/index-Da5J7UfI.js   193.32 kB │ gzip: 60.65 kB

✓ built in 136ms

Environment

yarn dlx -q envinfo --preset jest

  System:
    OS: Linux 6.8 Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat)
    CPU: (12) x64 AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
  Binaries:
    Node: 25.6.1 - /tmp/xfs-3764c2c8/node
    Yarn: 4.13.0 - /tmp/xfs-3764c2c8/yarn
    npm: 11.9.0 - /home/eoin/.nvm/versions/node/v25.6.1/bin/npm
    bun: 1.3.9 - /home/eoin/.bun/bin/bun
    Deno: 2.5.6 - /home/eoin/.deno/bin/deno