diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/packages.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/packages.ts
index 728c941051f72f..b4a0d7948240e6 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/packages.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/packages.ts
@@ -143,6 +143,23 @@ export function findNearestPackageData(
   return null
 }
 
+// Finds the nearest package.json with a `name` field
+export function findNearestMainPackageData(
+  basedir: string,
+  packageCache?: PackageCache,
+): PackageData | null {
+  const nearestPackage = findNearestPackageData(basedir, packageCache)
+  return (
+    nearestPackage &&
+    (nearestPackage.data.name
+      ? nearestPackage
+      : findNearestMainPackageData(
+          path.dirname(nearestPackage.dir),
+          packageCache,
+        ))
+  )
+}
+
 export function loadPackageData(pkgPath: string): PackageData {
   const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(pkgPath, 'utf-8'))
   const pkgDir = path.dirname(pkgPath)
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/resolve.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/resolve.ts
index 4d535c8659f834..bb1cadca3e9cd5 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/resolve.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/resolve.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import {
   isOptimizable,
   isTsRequest,
   isWindows,
-  lookupFile,
   normalizePath,
   resolveFrom,
   safeRealpathSync,
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@ import type { DepsOptimizer } from '../optimizer'
 import type { SSROptions } from '..'
 import type { PackageCache, PackageData } from '../packages'
 import {
+  findNearestMainPackageData,
   findNearestPackageData,
   loadPackageData,
   resolvePackageData,
@@ -705,12 +705,8 @@ export function tryNodeResolve(
       !id.includes('\0') &&
       bareImportRE.test(id)
     ) {
-      // find package.json with `name` as main
-      const mainPackageJson = lookupFile(basedir, ['package.json'], {
-        predicate: (content) => !!JSON.parse(content).name,
-      })
-      if (mainPackageJson) {
-        const mainPkg = JSON.parse(mainPackageJson)
+      const mainPkg = findNearestMainPackageData(basedir, packageCache)?.data
+      if (mainPkg) {
         if (
           mainPkg.peerDependencies?.[id] &&
           mainPkg.peerDependenciesMeta?.[id]?.optional
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/utils.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/utils.ts
index 5e9a73f111f3b8..d1b3eb14cae7c8 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/utils.ts
@@ -389,7 +389,6 @@ export function tryStatSync(file: string): fs.Stats | undefined {
 interface LookupFileOptions {
   pathOnly?: boolean
   rootDir?: string
-  predicate?: (file: string) => boolean
 }
 
 export function lookupFile(
@@ -400,12 +399,7 @@ export function lookupFile(
   for (const format of formats) {
     const fullPath = path.join(dir, format)
     if (tryStatSync(fullPath)?.isFile()) {
-      const result = options?.pathOnly
-        ? fullPath
-        : fs.readFileSync(fullPath, 'utf-8')
-      if (!options?.predicate || options.predicate(result)) {
-        return result
-      }
+      return options?.pathOnly ? fullPath : fs.readFileSync(fullPath, 'utf-8')
     }
   }
   const parentDir = path.dirname(dir)