Husky, Cypress, VSCode, (MacOS?): MODULE_NOT_FOUND

[theonlydaleking]

Spent a day on this yesterday so I thought I'd leave this here for anyone else trying to solve this.

Was trying to get a pre-commit hook working that would run Cypress e2e tests. I kept running into the issue,

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1087
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module '/Users/admin/Library/Caches/Cypress/13.9.0/Cypress.app/Contents/MacOS/Contents/Resources/app/index.js'
    at Function._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1084:15)
    at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:929:27
    at Function._load (node:electron/js2c/node_init:2:13357)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:96:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:23:47 {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: []
}

That file didn't exist, and this would happen when I use VSCode's integrated source control to commit changes. But a command line git commit -m "..." worked fine.

The thing that got it working for me was this:

unset ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE

In my .husky/pre-commit file