preact-cli errors out with node 20.10.0 (but not with 20.9.0)

[nocive]

What is the current behaviour?
It seems that with the latest node LTS version preact-cli does not work at all.
I understand this is an abandoned project and that users are encouraged to move to something else, but any advice or pointers would still be greatly appreciated.

Steps to Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run any preact-cli command on a node 20.10.0 environment
2. Get a fatal error from the node engine:

$ node_modules/.bin/preact --help

  #  node[740]: void node::fs::InternalModuleStat(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>&) at ../src/node_file.cc:1037
  #  Assertion failed: (args.Length()) >= (2)

----- Native stack trace -----


----- JavaScript stack trace -----

1: .../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:34535
2: .../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:34176
3: .../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:34506
4: .../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:173374
5: ...node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:173420
6: .../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:173521
7: .../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:258942
8: .../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:261569
9: e (.../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:262673)
10: get (.../node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:262740)


Aborted (core dumped)

[rschristian]

Looks like it's the esm module, which we use for parsing config files here:

preact-cli/packages/cli/src/lib/webpack/transform-config.js

Line 113 in e826f7c

m = esmImport(cliConfig);

You can try to open an issue upstream, but IIRC, it's not been maintained either.

[nocive]

For those coming across this, you can overcome the issue by replacing the esm package with this actively maintained fork which contains a patch to the above reported error.

To replace the standard-things/esm package with the suggested fork you can add the following to yarn's resolutions:

"esm": "npm:esm-wallaby@*"