Add self as preload script, to load in worker_threads and child processes.

[cspotcode]

When user runs ts-node ./index.ts and the code spawns worker_threads and/or child_processes, these should also be able to require() .ts files.

This already happens with node --require ts-node/register, since that's inherited by child processes and worker threads.

Should we make our ts-node bin entrypoint behave the same way?

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yarn uses NODE_OPTIONS='--require .pnp.js' to hook their PnP API into the runtime. nyc uses some sort of child_process.spawn monkey-patching, but they also don't support worker_threads. Why don't they use NODE_OPTIONS?

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/36531 https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/29117

Are there performance concerns? Can we avoid child processes/threads re-resolving tsconfig when the parent has already done so? By passing the necessary config via an env var, or maybe prepending a --require /tmp/ts-node-config-497f86.cjs?

[ChristianTucker]

Curious if there's any updates regarding this issue almost a year later, we've used ts-node exclusively in production for awhile, but we're having to move away from it as the worker_threads implementation can't find a .js file that doesn't exist, requiring us to build and run from node directly.

[cspotcode]

Is there a pull request for this? Are you able to send one to be reviewed? Have you tried the recommended approaches above? Those approaches already work with ts-node in worker threads today. If you've tried them, did they work, or were there blockers?

Answers to these questions will help to triage this issue.

[cspotcode]

@ChristianTucker any update? Would appreciate your assistance to properly prioritize this issue.