regression in 21.4.0 when using `esm` package

[jeremymeng]

Version

v21.4.0

Platform

Linux codespaces-8a914d 6.2.0-1016-azure #16~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 17:11:51 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. npm init -y
2. npm add esm
3. create a file test.js with the following content

import { writeFileSync } from "fs";
console.log("hello");

4. node -r esm test.js

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

always

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

same as in v21.3.0

/workspaces/working/mocha/esm-test $ nvm use v21.3.0
Now using node v21.3.0 (npm v10.2.4)
/workspaces/working/mocha/esm-test $ node -r esm test.js
hello

What do you see instead?

content of esm.js is dumped to console for a TypeError

TypeError: Function.prototype.apply was called on undefined, which is a undefined and not a function
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:28:49

Node.js v21.4.0

Additional information

No response

[targos]

This is from #50907

/cc @ronag @anonrig

[yoroshikun]

This is also reproducible in node 22.x.x, 🙇 so revert needs to be applied there I think.

[GeoffreyBooth]

This isn't really a bug. We changed some undocumented internals that esm relied on, knowing it would break. Anyone can fork esm to update it accordingly; reverting the change would break other things now.