From da28077be3fb3265c04fe5defa5b9f42cc8408aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pooya Parsa <pyapar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:18:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(kit): avoid fallback to normalized path in module loading
 (#27507)

---
 packages/kit/src/module/install.ts | 2 +-
 packages/kit/src/resolve.ts        | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/kit/src/module/install.ts b/packages/kit/src/module/install.ts
index d283388a63..153aab0bd8 100644
--- a/packages/kit/src/module/install.ts
+++ b/packages/kit/src/module/install.ts
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ export async function loadNuxtModuleInstance (nuxtModule: string | NuxtModule, n
     let error: unknown
     for (const path of paths) {
       try {
-        const src = await resolvePath(path)
+        const src = await resolvePath(path, { fallbackToOriginal: true })
         // Prefer ESM resolution if possible
         nuxtModule = await importModule(src, nuxt.options.modulesDir).catch(() => null) ?? requireModule(src, { paths: nuxt.options.modulesDir })
 
diff --git a/packages/kit/src/resolve.ts b/packages/kit/src/resolve.ts
index 8bdf0693c3..392dec86d8 100644
--- a/packages/kit/src/resolve.ts
+++ b/packages/kit/src/resolve.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ export interface ResolvePathOptions {
    * @default false
    */
   virtual?: boolean
+
+  /**
+   * Whether to fallback to the original path if the resolved path does not exist instead of returning the normalized input path.
+   *
+   * @default false
+   */
+  fallbackToOriginal?: boolean
 }
 
 /**
@@ -99,7 +106,7 @@ export async function resolvePath (path: string, opts: ResolvePathOptions = {}):
   }
 
   // Return normalized input
-  return path
+  return opts.fallbackToOriginal ? _path : path
 }
 
 /**