module.registerHooks() tracking issue

• Support node:builtin?param=val & figure out how to make search params work with CJS cache
  • Some clues can be found in https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62920 (which smooths it for internal test mocking)
• Symbol.dispose integration (requested in https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/55698#discussion_r1855211481)
• Initial proposal: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/52219
• Loaders design proposal: https://github.com/nodejs/loaders/pull/198
• Initial implementation: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/55698
• Make the internal resolution and loading paths synchronous, to reduce the chance of races https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/60380 so that module.register() can be an helper built on top of module.registerHooks(), and internally we only have one set of hooking points to take care of we can't really polyfill module.register with it if we want to keep the internals to ourselves, oh well
• Handle with the nullish sources of CommonJS caused by module.register() quirk during interop: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/59929
  • For ESM, there's currently no way for Node.js to hook into the evaluation of child modules, will need to discuss with V8 about it (issue). Allowing mutation of the exports would require a spec change so out of scope for module.registerHooks() or Node.js in general
• Reordering of the documentation when module.registerHooks() is battle tested enough and should be preferred over module.register to avoid various caveats https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/56241
• Support of unknown extensions (learned about it when I was initially proposing https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/52219): this is already fully possible with the resolve hook?

Moved to https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/62720

• Implement link hook for ESM, as proposed in https://github.com/nodejs/loaders/pull/198 to make use cases like import-in-the-middle less hacky https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/62720
• startGraph hook proposed in https://github.com/nodejs/loaders/pull/205
• Implement evaluation hook for at least CJS to help use cases like require-in-the-middle, which was supposed to be based on https://github.com/nodejs/loaders/pull/198 but we had some discussions over the collaboration summit/NodeConf EU about changing the hook to be "wrapping around evaluation", not "after evaluation": WIP

Nice to have:

• Advocating it to popular npm packages doing CJS monkey-patching to reduce the overall dependency of CJS loader internals in the ecosystem
• Create a polyfill of module.register() built on top of module.registerHooks(): WIP in https://github.com/joyeecheung/module-register-ponyfill

Start with the successor issue https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/62720 and the linked Node.js loaders proposals, especially the link and startGraph hooks. This tracking issue has moved elsewhere and lists unresolved design work, so its completion criteria are not defined here.