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@uiw/codemirror-theme-* crashes vitest workers when --coverage is enabled #765

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Description

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Problem

Tests pass without --coverage but fail when coverage is enabled, with errors like:

  Error: Cannot find package '@lezer/highlight' imported from                                                                                                           
    .../node_modules/.pnpm/@uiw+codemirror-theme-github@.../node_modules/@uiw/codemirror-theme-github/...

Unrelated test files also fail because vitest runs multiple test files per worker — one package load failure crashes the whole worker.

Root Cause

@uiw/codemirror-theme-* packages import @lezer/highlight internally but don't declare it as a dependency in their package.json. This is a bug in those upstream
packages.

Why it only fails with --coverage:

  • Without --coverage: Vite bundles the theme packages through its own resolver, which searches broadly across the workspace and finds @lezer/highlight in
    packages/app/node_modules. No error.
  • With --coverage: vitest's v8 coverage provider loads node_modules packages via Node's native ESM loader for instrumentation, bypassing Vite's resolver
    entirely. Node follows pnpm's strict isolation rules — a package can only resolve its declared dependencies — so @lezer/highlight is not found.

Why npm/yarn users don't hit this: Both use a flat node_modules layout where any package can access anything installed. pnpm's virtual store enforces
declared-dependency isolation.

Workaround

Add packageExtensions entries in pnpm-workspace.yaml for each affected theme package, declaring @lezer/highlight as a dependency:

packageExtensions:
  "@uiw/codemirror-theme-github@*":
    dependencies:                                                                                                                                                     
      "@lezer/highlight": "*"
  "@uiw/codemirror-theme-vscode@*":                                                                                                                                   
    dependencies:
      "@lezer/highlight": "*"
  # ... other @uiw/codemirror-theme-* packages
                                                                                                                                                                      
pnpm then symlinks @lezer/highlight into each theme package's virtual store node_modules, making it available regardless of loader — Vite, Node, or the v8 coverage
provider.                                                                                                                                                             

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