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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"node --test --watch hangs on invalid import syntax","articleBody":"### Version\n\n25\n\n### Platform\n\n```text\nDarwin\n```\n\n### Subsystem\n\n_No response_\n\n### What steps will reproduce the bug?\n\n1. The test file\n```js\n// test.mjs\nimport\n```\n\n2. Run\n```sh\nnode --test --watch\n```\n\n3. Any change\n```sh\ntouch test.mjs\n```\n\n### How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?\n\nalways\n\n### What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?\n\nWhat: Don't hang.\nWhy: Because it should watch.\n\n### What do you see instead?\n\nHangs after the summary until `Ctrl+C` and prints one last summary after that.\nSo for the minimal example given before, that's one error message and two summaries in total.\n\nThe error is similar to this:\n\n```txt\nSyntaxError: Unexpected end of input\n    at compileSourceTextModule (node:internal/modules/esm/utils:305:16)\n    at ModuleLoader.moduleStrategy (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:111:18)\n    at #translate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:467:20)\n    at afterLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:523:29)\n    at ModuleLoader.loadAndTranslate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:528:12)\n    at #getOrCreateModuleJobAfterResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:565:36)\n    at afterResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:618:52)\n    at ModuleLoader.getOrCreateModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:624:12)\n    at onImport.tracePromise.__proto__ (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:643:32)\n    at TracingChannel.tracePromise (node:diagnostics_channel:350:14)\n```\n\n### Additional information\n\nIdea: `--test` and `--watch` should have what `--check` does as an internal per file and change prerequisite.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/valler","@type":"Person","name":"valler"},"datePublished":"2026-02-27T12:12:46.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/62021/node/issues/62021"}