From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Attard <marshallofsound@electronjs.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:03:15 -0700
Subject: fix: do not resolve electron entrypoints

This wastes fs cycles and can result in strange behavior if this path actually exists on disk

diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/esm/load.js b/lib/internal/modules/esm/load.js
index c9d4a3536d0f60375ae623b48ca2fa7095c88d42..d818320fbbc430d06a0c2852e4723981d6e1a844 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/esm/load.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/esm/load.js
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ async function defaultLoad(url, context = kEmptyObject) {
     source = null;
     format ??= 'builtin';
   } else if (format !== 'commonjs' || defaultType === 'module') {
-    if (source == null) {
+    if (format !== 'electron' && source == null) {
       ({ responseURL, source } = await getSource(urlInstance, context));
       context = { __proto__: context, source };
     }
diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js b/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
index 0f138b1099b4833176e8a0ce681c745422efc24a..c7dd203e4bd5d611186300d9c0f2255afdf81684 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
@@ -287,6 +287,9 @@ function cjsPreparseModuleExports(filename, source) {
   if (module && module[kModuleExportNames] !== undefined) {
     return { module, exportNames: module[kModuleExportNames] };
   }
+  if (filename === 'electron') {
+    return { module, exportNames: new SafeSet(['default', ...Object.keys(module.exports)]) };
+  }
   const loaded = Boolean(module);
   if (!loaded) {
     module = new CJSModule(filename);
diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js b/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
index ab4783a7982b9feb8fa85b62e3e3b181f93309bd..34f91026451d7347ae278712d083e4fe281e50f3 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 const {
   StringPrototypeEndsWith,
+  StringPrototypeStartsWith,
   globalThis,
 } = primordials;
 
@@ -26,6 +27,13 @@ const {
  * @param {string} main - Entry point path
  */
 function resolveMainPath(main) {
+  // For built-in modules used as the main entry point we _never_
+  // want to waste cycles resolving them to file paths on disk
+  // that actually might exist
+  if (typeof main === 'string' && StringPrototypeStartsWith(main, 'electron/js2c')) {
+    return main;
+  }
+
   const defaultType = getOptionValue('--experimental-default-type');
   /** @type {string} */
   let mainPath;
@@ -62,6 +70,13 @@ function resolveMainPath(main) {
  * @param {string} mainPath - Absolute path to the main entry point
  */
 function shouldUseESMLoader(mainPath) {
+  // For built-in modules used as the main entry point we _never_
+  // want to waste cycles resolving them to file paths on disk
+  // that actually might exist
+  if (typeof mainPath === 'string' && StringPrototypeStartsWith(mainPath, 'electron/js2c')) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
   if (getOptionValue('--experimental-default-type') === 'module') { return true; }
 
   /**