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Fixes #23898. Builds on #37924 by @eduardoaugustolb: his commit is kept as the first commit of this branch, and the second commit reworks the lookup on top of it.

Problem

  • import { findPackageJSON } from "node:module" fails with SyntaxError: Export named 'findPackageJSON' not found in module 'node:module'. Node has shipped module.findPackageJSON(specifier, base) since 22.14 / 23.2.
  • node:module: implement findPackageJSON #37924 implements it by running full module resolution (ResolveMode::PackageJson threaded through VirtualMachine::resolve) and reading Result.package_json off the resolved file. Measured against Node 26 on the same fixture tree, that gets the documented cases wrong:
    • findPackageJSON("..", import.meta.url) (the example in Node's docs, and what test/js/node/test/fixtures/packages/nested/* exercises) throws, because .. has no index file to resolve to. Same for ., ./, ../.
    • Bare specifiers resolve the package's entry point, so a package that only ships types, only has subpath exports, or a specifier with a subpath that does not exist throws instead of returning the package's package.json.
    • findPackageJSON(import.meta.resolve("pkg")) returns pkg/package.json even when the resolved file sits in a nested scope (pkg/lib/package.json), because the resolver's Result.package_json is the closest manifest that has a name, so a nameless nested scope is skipped. Node returns the closest one.
    • findPackageJSON.length is 2 (Node: 1), and builtins return undefined where Node throws.
  • A maintainer review on an earlier attempt (feat: Implements the Module.findPackageJSON function Node.js #24098) asked for this to go through the resolver's directory cache rather than stat-walking directories.

Fix

  • Resolver::find_package_json(source_dir, specifier) (src/resolver/resolver.rs) does the lookup purely on the DirInfo cache:
    • bare specifier: the name must pass Node's parsePackageName rule (no leading ., % or \), then self-reference (nearest scope whose name matches and that has a usable exports), then <dir>/node_modules/<name> for each ancestor that has a node_modules directory. Returns that directory's package.json without resolving an entry point (the file only has to exist; DirInfo now records that with a HasPackageJsonFile flag, so a manifest Bun cannot parse is still reported); a package directory without one yields undefined; no package directory at all is ModuleNotFound.
    • anything else: joined onto source_dir, then the directory itself if it is one, otherwise its parent (the file must exist), walking up to the first package.json and stopping at a node_modules directory, which is Node's package scope rule.
    • a NUL byte in either argument is ModuleNotFound, like the regular resolver; a query string (./a.js?v=1) is cut off, like import().
    • the "closest existing ancestor" walk that check_package_path already did for non-existent source directories is extracted into closest_existing_dir_info and shared.
  • NodeModuleModule__findPackageJSON (src/jsc/NodeModuleModule.rs) is now a Rust host function registered directly in the C++ property table (Function 1): validates arguments (ERR_MISSING_ARGS; ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE for a base that is neither a string nor a URL, or a specifier that is a symbol or whose toString() throws, while any other specifier value is stringified as Node does; ERR_INVALID_URL for a base string that is neither a URL nor an absolute path, as Node's new URL(base) throws; ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE for a base longer than any path the OS accepts, which is joined with the checked path joiner so it cannot overflow the path buffer; and, for anything with a URL scheme in either position, whatever Bun.fileURLToPath() would throw: ERR_INVALID_URL, ERR_INVALID_URL_SCHEME, ERR_INVALID_FILE_URL_HOST on POSIX, ERR_INVALID_FILE_URL_PATH for encoded separators), accepts absolute paths or file: URLs for base and paths or file: URLs for the specifier, starts from dirname(base) (or from base itself when it ends with a separator, like a file:///dir/ URL) or the cwd when base is omitted, scopes the resolver log for the duration of the call, and throws ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND with Node's wording (Cannot find package 'x' imported from <base> / Cannot find module '<absolute path>' imported from <base>). Any other resolver failure (these are rare: the directory cache treats unreadable directories as empty, so in practice allocation failures or an unreadable root) is thrown as a plain error naming the cause, <error> while resolving '<specifier>' from '<base>', instead of being reported as not found.
  • The body of Bun.fileURLToPath() (src/jsc/bindings/BunObject.cpp) becomes a helper shared with this function through a small export (URL::file_url_to_path_from_js), so there is one set of file-URL rules. One behaviour change for Bun.fileURLToPath() itself: a string that does not parse as a URL now throws ERR_INVALID_URL with the input on the error, like Node, instead of a scheme error.
  • DirInfo gets a HasPackageJsonFile flag, set from the directory listing whether or not the manifest is loaded or parses. It is deliberately outside the load_package_json gate: compiled executables do not load manifests for resolution, but findPackageJSON() is about the files on disk, so it still works there (tested by compiling a small program). The exception is self-reference by package name, which needs the manifest's name and exports: a compiled executable does not load manifests, so import() does not self-reference there, and neither does this.
  • ResolveMode::PackageJson and Result::package_json_path from the first commit are removed since nothing uses them anymore; VirtualMachine::resolve is back to main.
  • Verified:
    • test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js: new findPackageJSON block (bare specifiers incl. types-only / exports-only / subpath / self-reference / hoisting, paths and file URLs, directories, the node_modules boundary, base variants incl. a directory base with a trailing separator, relative bases rejected, no base, self-reference rules, invalid package names, NUL bytes, query strings, error codes and messages, argument validation, oversized base and specifiers, an unparseable manifest, file URLs with a host / localhost / an encoded separator, a compiled executable, and the in-repo Node fixtures packages/nested/sub-pkg-{cjs,esm}, imported at module scope). Fails on the released bun with the error from the issue, passes with bun bd test.
    • A 50-case probe script run against Node 26.3 and this build agrees on every case except the ones listed under intentional differences below. A second review round ran about 150 more cases (base forms, symlinks, cache effects, scoped and malformed names, URL forms) the same way; its findings are fixed in f83ac99 or listed below.
    • test/js/bun/util/fileUrl.test.js (one case added for the ERR_INVALID_URL change), test/js/bun/resolve and test/js/node/module pass (two load-same-js-file-a-lot timeouts are the debug build being slow here, 8ms per import of an empty file; unrelated to this change).

Intentional differences from Node:

  • The contents of a package.json never matter, only its existence. For a path, Node reads the closest manifest and throws ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_CONFIG when its strict parser rejects it (UTF-16 BOM, comments, trailing commas, a non-string name, an empty file); this returns the path in those cases, the same as both runtimes do for a bare specifier, and the same manifests Bun's own resolver accepts. A package directory with no package.json at all yields undefined, where Node returns the path the file would have had.
  • A bare specifier that is not a valid package name (@scope with no name, .hidden, %41, pkg\sub) throws ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND, whether or not a directory of that name exists; Node throws ERR_INVALID_MODULE_SPECIFIER for those. Both throw, only the code differs.
  • With no base, Node resolves against data: and therefore throws for everything except a file URL (ERR_UNSUPPORTED_RESOLVE_REQUEST for relative and absolute paths, ERR_INVALID_URL for a bare name); this resolves paths and bare names from the cwd instead. File URLs behave the same in both.
  • Paths are used as given, never realpath'd, the same as import.meta.resolve() of that path in Bun. Node realpaths a file target, so for a file reached through a symlink (node_modules/linked/index.js with linked -> ../packages/linked) Node returns packages/linked/package.json and this returns node_modules/linked/package.json. Bare specifiers agree in both (the symlink path), and so does findPackageJSON(import.meta.resolve("linked")), since Bun's resolution realpaths.
  • A relative path to a directory that does not exist (../missing/) throws ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND, the "target must exist" rule; Node returns the closest package.json above the missing directory.
  • A path directly inside a node_modules directory returns undefined; Node 26 currently returns the input path back for that case, which looks like a bug on its side.
  • URL-shaped inputs get Bun.fileURLToPath()'s codes in both positions. Node's differ for a few malformed inputs: file://[ as a specifier is ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND there (it reads it as the bare package file:), a non-file URL object as base is ERR_INVALID_URL, an encoded separator in a specifier is ERR_INVALID_MODULE_SPECIFIER, and Node accepts an encoded separator in a base.
  • Results are plain paths on every platform; Node's own test wraps its Windows expectations in path.toNamespacedPath().

Background

  • findPackageJSON has two documented modes. For a bare specifier ("pkg", "@scope/pkg/sub") it returns the root package.json of the package that importing it from base would pick; for a relative or absolute location it returns the closest package.json governing that location. Node implements the first with package lookup only (no entry point resolution) and the second with the same walk it uses to find a module's package scope.
  • DirInfo is the resolver's per-directory cache entry: whether the directory has a parsed package.json, whether it contains or is a node_modules directory, its entries, and a link to its parent entry. Every import already goes through it, so both lookups above are hash lookups on directories that are usually already cached; nothing here touches the filesystem that normal resolution would not.
  • Result.package_json (what the first commit returned) is computed for bundling decisions (side effects, browser field) and is deliberately the package root for files under node_modules, which is why it cannot express "closest package.json".
  • The resolver writes parse errors for bad package.json/tsconfig.json files it encounters into resolver.log. VirtualMachine::resolve swaps in a fresh log for the same reason; this host function does the same with Resolver::scoped_log, so a user calling findPackageJSON cannot leave messages in the VM's log.
Node 26.3 vs this branch on the probe fixture (abridged)
case                                              node                                         this branch
'..', import.meta.url                             project/package.json                         same
'./qux.js', import.meta.url                       qux/package.json                             same
'some-package', import.meta.url                   node_modules/some-package/package.json       same
import.meta.resolve('some-package')               some-package/some-subfolder/package.json     same
'some-package/whatever/doesnt/exist'              node_modules/some-package/package.json       same
'@scope/types-only'                               .../types-only/package.json                  same
'exports-only' / 'exports-only/sub'               .../exports-only/package.json                same
'@foo/qux' (self-ref, no exports)                 ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND                         same
'does-not-exist' / 'fs'                           ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND                         same
'./missing.js'                                    ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND                         same
base = 123 / null                                 ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE                         same
no arguments                                      ERR_MISSING_ARGS                             same
findPackageJSON.length                            1                                            same
symlinked workspace pkg, bare / resolved          symlink path / real path                     same
'./qux.js' / '/abs/qux.js' with no base           ERR_UNSUPPORTED_RESOLVE_REQUEST              resolved from cwd
file URL with no base                             qux/package.json                             same
'node:fs' / 'https://…' (either position)         ERR_INVALID_URL_SCHEME                       same
bare specifier, manifest does not parse           node_modules/x/package.json                  same
path, closest manifest does not parse             ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_CONFIG                   the path
file directly inside node_modules                 returns the input path                       undefined
base = 'dir/' (trailing separator), './a.js'      resolved from dir                            same
base = 'src/index.js' / '' / '.'                  ERR_INVALID_URL                              same
'./a.js?v=1'                                      closest package.json                         same
'pkg\sub' / '.hidden' / '%41'                     ERR_INVALID_MODULE_SPECIFIER                 ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND
'pkg\0x' / './a\0.js'                             (resolves / ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND)            ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND
self-reference, "exports": true                   ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND                         same
file through a symlinked directory                real package.json                            symlink-side package.json
'../missing/'                                     closest package.json above                   ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND
specifier with toString() that throws             ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE                         same

The same probe against #37924 as submitted: .., ., ./, ../ throw; @scope/types-only, exports-only and some-package/whatever/doesnt/exist throw; import.meta.resolve('some-package') returns the package root instead of the nested scope; fs / node:fs / https: return undefined; length is 2.


no test proof · iteration 9 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js, test/js/bun/util/fileUrl.test.js

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findPackageJSON resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Package metadata resolution
src/resolver/resolver.rs, src/resolver/dir_info.rs
The resolver locates package metadata for paths, bare packages, self-references, and ancestor directories. Directory metadata records package.json file presence independently of parsing success.
Host API and module export wiring
src/jsc/NodeModuleModule.rs, src/jsc/ResolveMessage.rs, src/jsc/URL.rs, src/jsc/bindings/BunObject.cpp, src/jsc/modules/NodeModuleModule.cpp
The host function validates arguments, handles paths and file: URLs, calls the resolver, reports resolution errors, and exposes findPackageJSON. URL conversion is shared through a new C ABI helper.
API behavior validation
test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js, test/js/bun/util/fileUrl.test.js
Tests cover package, path, URL, base, boundary, error, compatibility, executable, and argument-validation behavior.

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  • oven-sh/bun#37924: Extends the same findPackageJSON implementation across host bindings, resolver behavior, and tests.

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This PR may be a duplicate of:

  1. node:module: implement findPackageJSON #37924 - Implements the same module.findPackageJSON API in node:module for the same issue (Error when importing findPackageJSON method from node:module #23898), touching the same NodeModuleModule.rs/.cpp bindings and the same test file.

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Review follow-ups pushed:

  • e6e6aef: the host function now maps only ModuleNotFound to ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND; any other resolver failure is thrown as an error naming the cause (<error> while resolving '<specifier>' from '<base>'). The Node fixture modules are imported at module scope in the test instead of via require / dynamic import.
  • 427f9e8: shortened the doc comment that moved along with the closest-existing-directory walk.

On the duplicate check: overlapping with #37924 is intentional. This PR carries that PR's commit as its first commit and reworks the lookup on top of it (details in the description), so #37924 can be closed in favour of this one once a maintainer agrees.

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c7dff11: a base longer than the path buffer (about 4 KiB on Linux, 1 KiB on macOS) crashed the process in the previous revision because it was normalized with the unchecked path joiner. It is now joined with the checked variant and throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE; oversized specifiers were already handled on the resolver side and throw ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND. Both are covered by new test cases.

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Two more follow-ups from review:

  • 726c3b5: a URL of any scheme other than file:, as a URL object or a string and in either argument, throws ERR_INVALID_URL_SCHEME with Node's message. Before, a non-file base was joined onto the cwd as if it were a relative path (so a package could be resolved from the wrong directory) and a non-file specifier was reported as a missing package. The description's list of differences from Node shrinks by one.
  • 18498a7: the scheme comparison is ASCII-case-insensitive, so FILE:///... is accepted like Node accepts it.

The doc comments flagged by the comment linter describe the helpers' contracts (what location_to_path accepts, and why a scheme must be at least two characters), so they stay.

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4271-4277: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Return the package manifest path after the package directory resolves.

Node returns <package directory>/package.json when the package directory exists, even if the manifest is missing or malformed. Return this path independently from parsed PackageJSON metadata and update regression coverage.

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In `@src/resolver/resolver.rs` around lines 4271 - 4277, Update the
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I reviewed this revision and didn't find any new issues — the case-insensitive scheme fix in 18498a7 addresses my last note, and the earlier findings (oversized-base panic, malformed file: URL, non-file: scheme) are all covered with tests. Given this adds a new node:module API, refactors the hot-path check_package_path directory walk, and documents three intentional divergences from Node (cwd fallback for no-base, node_modules-child returning undefined, plain paths on Windows), a maintainer look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • closest_existing_dir_info extraction is behavior-preserving for check_package_path — the moved debug_assert!(is_package_path(...)) holds at both call sites (guarded by check_package at resolver.rs:1911).
  • url_scheme() correctly leaves single-letter schemes (Windows drive letters) as paths; eq_ignore_ascii_case handles FILE: and is tested.
  • All user-controlled path joins go through _checked variants (join_abs_string_buf_checked, abs_buf_checked); no remaining fixed-buffer overflow paths.
  • Resolver::scoped_log guard drop-order is sound (log declared before guard); resolver's parse messages don't leak into the VM log.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR implements module.findPackageJSON(specifier, base) for Node.js compatibility (fixes #23898). It adds a Rust host function in src/jsc/NodeModuleModule.rs (~130 lines: argument validation, URL-to-path conversion, error mapping), a new Resolver::find_package_json entry point in src/resolver/resolver.rs (~120 lines) that does bare-specifier and path lookups purely on the DirInfo cache, extracts the existing "walk to closest existing ancestor" logic from check_package_path into a shared closest_existing_dir_info helper, registers the function in the C++ property table, makes esm_package_name pub(crate), and adds ~250 lines of tests covering bare/relative/absolute/URL specifiers, base variants, error codes, and adversarial inputs.

Security risks

None material. All user-controlled inputs are length-checked before being written into pooled path buffers (the earlier unchecked join_abs_string_buf panic was fixed in c7dff11). URL parsing goes through WTF's WHATWG parser with the dead-string result checked. The function only reads directory metadata via the resolver's existing cache; it does not open, execute, or write files. There's no new FFI surface beyond the standard host-function export.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. This is new user-facing API on node:module, and it touches the resolver — a critical, cache-heavy subsystem where subtle behavior changes can affect every import. The refactor of check_package_path into closest_existing_dir_info looks behavior-preserving (I traced both callers back to the check_package = is_package_path_not_absolute(...) guard, so the now-unconditional debug_assert! holds), but a maintainer familiar with resolver internals should confirm. The PR also documents three intentional divergences from Node's behavior that are policy calls a maintainer should sign off on.

Other factors

This PR went through five rounds of automated review that surfaced real bugs (a process-abort on oversized base, silent wrong results for malformed file: URLs, silent resolution from cwd for non-file: schemes, and case-sensitive scheme matching). All were fixed with regression tests added. The current bug-hunting run found nothing new. Test coverage is thorough — it exercises the fixture matrix (types-only, exports-only, self-reference, hoisting, nested scopes, node_modules boundary), argument validation, oversized inputs, and the in-repo Node fixtures. The one remaining unresolved thread is a comment-cop bot flag on the three-line url_scheme doc comment, which is contract documentation rather than a workaround; the author has already responded to identical flags on the other doc comments in this file.

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Thanks for consolidating this with #37924. I had been working on an independent #23898 implementation and landed on the same basic design: a resolver-cache lookup rather than full module resolution.

I compared the current source and tests with a Node v24.14 differential corpus. I have not run it against a binary built from this exact head, so these are questions rather than bug reports:

  • Node accepts a UTF-8 BOM, but rejects UTF-16/32 BOM, malformed/commented/trailing-comma JSON, and wrong-type name or type fields. Invalid-to-valid rewrites recover, while valid manifests stay cached.
  • The PR already calls out two deliberate differences: omitted base starts from cwd rather than data:, and a package directory without package.json returns undefined rather than the prospective path. Do you want to keep those differences?
  • I also have focused cases for malformed URL encoding, branded URL coercion, symlinks, and Windows drive/UNC/junction paths.

The strict package-config and mutation cases are probably the most useful subset because they exercise the cache directly. I’m happy to send those as a small test-only patch if useful, or keep the broader URL/platform cases for a follow-up.

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Rebased onto main (eddeec7, 8 commits, the original commit from #37924 still first; the empty retrigger commit is dropped). One conflict in NodeModuleModule.cpp where main removed a neighbouring declaration; the file's diff against main is still just the declaration and the property-table entry. Rebuilt and re-ran test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js (50 pass) and test/js/bun/resolve.

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Replace the ResolveMode::PackageJson path through VirtualMachine::resolve
with a dedicated Resolver::find_package_json that only consults the
directory cache, matching Node's semantics:

- A bare specifier returns the root package.json of the package that
  would be loaded (self-reference first, then each enclosing node_modules)
  without resolving its entry point, so packages that only ship types or
  subpath exports, and specifiers with a subpath, still resolve.
- A path or file: URL returns the closest package.json to that location:
  the directory's own when it names a directory (findPackageJSON("..",
  import.meta.url)), otherwise the nearest ancestor's, never crossing a
  node_modules directory. A location that does not exist throws.
- base may be a path, a file: URL string or a URL object; its directory is
  the starting point. Without a base, resolution starts in the cwd.
- Errors carry ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND / ERR_MISSING_ARGS / ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE
  with Node's messages, and the function reports length 1.

The host function now lives entirely in Rust; the C++ side only registers
it. check_package_path's walk to the closest existing directory is shared
with the new lookup.
…s href

A URL object whose scheme is a single character (new URL("x:y")) was
stringified and then read as a relative path, because a one-character
scheme is reserved for Windows drive letters in the string form. A value
that is a URL is now passed to fileURLToPath as it is, so it throws
ERR_INVALID_URL_SCHEME like any other non-file URL. Strings are still
sniffed for a scheme.
OwnedString is gone since String releases its ref on drop, and
transfer_to_js is now into_js. file_url_to_path_from_js comes from the
URLJsc trait after the URL.rs restructuring.
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Rebased onto current main (bc713f9, 114 commits of drift; the contributor's commit is still first). Three conflicts, all from main's recent refactors rather than from anything new in this PR:

  • VirtualMachine.rs: main changed resolve_maybe_needs_trailing_slash to return Ok(Ok(path)) instead of writing an out-parameter. The first commit's ResolveMode::PackageJson branches are re-expressed in that style so the commit still applies; the rework commit then restores the file to main, as before, so the final diff does not touch it.
  • URL.rs: main turned impl URL into the URLJsc trait and moved the file-URL string helpers to bun_url. file_url_to_path_from_js is now a method on that trait next to href_from_js.
  • NodeModuleModule.rs import list, same as last time.

One new commit on top (22037c2): main made bun_core::String own its WTF ref (#40238), so the OwnedString wrappers are gone, transfer_to_js is into_js, and the URLJsc trait is imported. No behaviour change. Rebuilt and re-ran test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js (60 pass), test/js/bun/util/fileUrl.test.js (21 pass) and test/js/bun/resolve (the same two load-same-js-file-a-lot debug-build timeouts as before, nothing else).

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Self-review of this revision, one comment per finding. Each was checked by running the same call under this build and under Node 26.3. Fixes follow in the next push.

Two description-level findings that have no hunk to hang on:

  • The intentional-differences list says that with no base, absolute paths behave the same as in Node. They do not: Node 26.3 throws ERR_UNSUPPORTED_RESOLVE_REQUEST for an absolute path with no base, and only file URLs work without one. Bun's cwd fallback is a superset. The description will say so.
  • The Problem section's account of #37924 is imprecise in two places: a missing package threw there too (only builtins returned undefined), and Result.package_json is the closest manifest with a name, not the package root under node_modules. Both will be reworded.
  • docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx still lists findPackageJSON as missing. The line is updated in the next push.

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- A base that ends with a separator names that directory. Before, its
  parent was used, so `findPackageJSON("./a.js", "/app/src/")` searched
  /app and `"."` against a directory returned the parent's manifest.
- A base string must be absolute. A relative one (including "" and ".")
  throws ERR_INVALID_URL with the input on the error, as Node's
  `new URL(base)` does. Before, "" and "." resolved from the parent of
  the cwd.
- A query string is cut from a path or bare specifier, as import() does.
- A specifier whose toString() throws is reported as ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE.
- The not-found message for a path names the path that was looked for.
- A NUL byte in either argument is ModuleNotFound instead of reaching the
  C string conversion, which asserts in debug builds.
- A package name with a leading ".", a "%" or a "\" is rejected (Node's
  rule). A "\" was joined as a separator, so "dep\lib" returned
  dep/lib/package.json as if it were a package root.
- An "exports" with an invalid type does not enable self-reference.

Tests added for each, and the assertions that could pass with a wrong
answer now compare against concrete paths.
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Self-review round (the 13 line comments above): every finding is fixed in f83ac99 and the threads are resolved. About 150 extra cases were run under this build and under Node 26.3 to find them. What changed:

  • A base that ends with a separator is the directory itself. It was resolved from the parent directory before.
  • A base string must be an absolute path or a file URL. A relative one, "" or . throws ERR_INVALID_URL with input, like Node. Before, "" and . were resolved from the parent of the cwd.
  • A query string is cut from a path or bare specifier, like import() does.
  • A specifier whose toString() throws is ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE, like Node.
  • The not-found message for a path names the absolute path it looked for, like Node.
  • A NUL byte in either argument is ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND. It reached a C string conversion and failed an assertion in debug builds.
  • A package name with a leading ., a % or a \ is rejected (Node's parsePackageName rule). dep\lib used to return dep/lib/package.json, a nested manifest, because \ was joined as a separator.
  • An exports field with an invalid type (true) no longer enables self-reference.
  • Tests for each, plus tighter assertions where the old ones could pass with a wrong answer. The description is corrected (absolute paths without a base do throw in Node, two statements about node:module: implement findPackageJSON #37924, the new differences: symlinked file targets are not realpath'd, ../missing/ throws, and the codes for malformed URL inputs) and the compat docs no longer list findPackageJSON as missing (46f3501).

Two review findings are left as they are, with the reasoning on the threads: findPackageJSON of a path goes through the same lossy bytes-to-string conversion as require.resolve(), and self-reference inside a compiled executable matches import() there.

c1c4592, from the first CI run of these fixes: on Windows the path join keeps a trailing \ but drops a trailing /, so the directory-base check now runs on the input (a base like C:/app/src/ was still resolved from its parent), and the not-found test no longer expects the separator in the message.

CI on c1c4592 (build #109046): 171 of 181 jobs passed. Every red job has the same single failure, test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-http-should-accept-custom-certs-when-provided.ts with CERT_HAS_EXPIRED: a fixture certificate that has expired by wall-clock time, unrelated to this PR and reported separately. Everything else passed on retry. Ready for review.

…ign separator

On Windows the path join keeps a trailing backslash but not a trailing
slash, so a base like C:/app/src/ was resolved from its parent. The
check now runs on the input. The not-found test no longer expects the
trailing separator in the message, since the join drops it on Windows.
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Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

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