[typescript] Crash when updating unmodified files or updating to an error state, silent in Node 16

[dead-claudia]

• Rollup Plugin Name: typescript
• Rollup Plugin Version: 11.1.0
• Rollup Version: 3.21.6
• Operating System (or Browser): Debian 11 Bullseye and Ubuntu 22.04.2 Jammy, run inside WSL 2 (WSL 1.2.5.0, kernel 5.15.90.1) under Windows 10
• Node Version: v16.20.0 in Debian and Ubuntu, v20.1.0 in Ubuntu
• Link to reproduction (⚠️ read below): https://github.com/dead-claudia/rollup-type-crash, https://github.com/dead-claudia/rollup-unused-crash

Expected Behavior

This is a family of highly related bugs, and the two links are for two different sets of test cases. Here's the expectation with each type of bug:

• Invalid to invalid: process to remain alive and print resulting error
• Valid to invalid: process to remain alive and print resulting error
• Invalid to valid: dist.js to be created/updated

Actual Behavior

• Invalid to invalid: process crashes, silently in Node 16 but with output in Node 20
• Valid to invalid: process crashes, silently in Node 16 but with output in Node 20
• Invalid to valid: dist.js is not generated, even if you touch it after the initial correction

The error generated by Node v20.1.0 is this:

node:internal/errors:490
    ErrorCaptureStackTrace(err);
    ^

TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "code" argument must be of type number. Received an instance of Error
    at process.set [as exitCode] (node:internal/bootstrap/node:124:9)
    at process.exit (node:internal/process/per_thread:188:24)
    at process.close (/home/claudia/rollup-typescript-silent-crash/node_modules/rollup/dist/shared/watch-cli.js:543:19) {
  code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE'
}

The README details each one of these in full.

Additional Information

Here's what I tried:

• Installing with clean npm caches using --cache
• Restarting the Debian VM in WSL, to check for kernel state issues
• Creating a new throwaway Ubuntu VM in WSL, to fully isolate the kernel's state

The issue in question is a family of highly related errors. The reason they're split is because I did a few times have the type variant (but not the unused variant) report an actual TS error before exiting, but I wasn't able to easily isolate it while putting together this repro. I also suspect it's just a minor variation of the same issue.

Let me know if you need anything else.

[dead-claudia]

Filed rollup/rollup#4986 to track it on Rollup's side, in case it's a Rollup proper issue (which I find most likely). Still filed it here as well since I couldn't fully isolate it from the TypeScript plugin.

[stale]

Hey folks. This issue hasn't received any traction for 60 days, so we're going to close this for housekeeping. If this is still an ongoing issue, please do consider contributing a Pull Request to resolve it. Further discussion is always welcome even with the issue closed. If anything actionable is posted in the comments, we'll consider reopening it. ⓘ