fix: Nuxt DevTools (vite-plugin-inspect) breaks oxc-walker's parseSync resolution, causing oxc-walker: could not resolve a parseSync implementation across many plugin transforms

Empieza reproduciendo el fallo en el Nuxt starter kit con DevTools habilitado mediante npm run dev o npm run build. Sigue la ruta de transformación a través de vite-plugin-inspect hasta oxc-walker's resolveParseSync y la macro de compilación keyed-functions de Nuxt; se considera terminado cuando oxc-parser se resuelve correctamente y desaparecen los errores de transformación reportados sin deshabilitar DevTools.

🐛 The bug

Summary

When Nuxt DevTools is enabled, plugin/component transforms that rely on oxc-walker (via @unhead, Nuxt's internal keyed-functions compiler macro, nuxt-schema-org, nuxt-auth-sanctum, etc.) intermittently or consistently fail with:

oxc-walker: could not resolve a parseSync implementation. Install oxc-parser or rolldown (and use rolldown/utils), or pass a parseSync function via the parseAndWalk options.

Disabling DevTools (devtools: { enabled: false } in nuxt.config.ts) makes the error disappear entirely and permanently, across every environment we tested.

Environment

Nuxt: 4.4.8 and 4.5.2 (reproduced on both)
Vite: 7.3.6 and 8.2.2 (reproduced on both — not specific to Vite 8/Rolldown)
Node: v26.8.1
npm: 12.0.2
OS: macOS (Darwin 25.6.0), Apple Silicon (arm64)
oxc-parser: 0.147.0 (installed and working correctly when tested standalone via node -e "require('oxc-parser').parseSync")
oxc-walker: 1.1.1

Reproduction

Any Nuxt project with devtools enabled (the default) and any module that triggers oxc-walker-based static analysis on plugins/components (this reproduces even on the official Nuxt starter kit — no extra modules required beyond what DevTools itself needs).
Run npm run dev (or npm run build).
Errors/warnings appear referencing multiple internal Nuxt plugin files (payload.client.js, revive-payload.*.js, router.js, unhead.js, user components like AppFooter.vue, etc.), each pointing to oxc-walker's resolveParseSync.

Example full stack trace (dev mode, triggered from a Vue component via Nuxt's keyed-functions compiler macro):

[plugin:nuxt:compiler:keyed-functions] oxc-walker: could not resolve a parseSync implementation. Install oxc-parser or rolldown (and use rolldown/utils), or pass a parseSync function via the parseAndWalk options.

/path/to/project/app/components/app/AppFooter.vue

at resolveParseSync (node_modules/oxc-walker/dist/index.mjs:174:8)
at parseAndWalk (node_modules/oxc-walker/dist/index.mjs:196:29)
at TransformPluginContext.handler (node_modules/nuxt/dist/index.mjs:4754:29)
at async file:///.../node_modules/vite-plugin-inspect/dist/shared/vite-plugin-inspect.Fv_Ybe1l...
at async EnvironmentPluginContainer.transform (node_modules/@nuxt/vite-builder/node_modules/vite/dist/...)
at async loadAndTransform (node_modules/@nuxt/vite-builder/node_modules/vite/dist/...)
at async viteTransformMiddleware (node_modules/@nuxt/vite-builder/node_modules/vite/dist/...)

Note that vite-plugin-inspect (bundled with/used by Nuxt DevTools) sits directly in the transform call stack, between Vite's plugin container and the point where oxc-walker fails to resolve parseSync.

Expected behavior

oxc-walker should resolve parseSync from oxc-parser regardless of whether DevTools/vite-plugin-inspect is wrapping the transform pipeline.

Actual behavior

With DevTools enabled, oxc-walker's internal resolveParseSync() (which uses createRequire(import.meta.url) from its own module location) fails to locate oxc-parser, even though:

oxc-parser is correctly installed and resolvable via both require() and dynamic import() when tested standalone.
npm ls oxc-parser and npm ls oxc-walker show a single, deduplicated version each across the whole dependency tree.

This strongly suggests vite-plugin-inspect's transform wrapping changes the module context (e.g. import.meta.url, or how the transform function is invoked/bound) in a way that breaks oxc-walker's createRequire-based resolution of oxc-parser.

Confirmed fix

ts
// nuxt.config.ts
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  devtools: { enabled: false },
})

After disabling DevTools and restarting the dev server (with .nuxt and node_modules/.vite cleared for good measure), the error disappears completely and does not return, across multiple terminal environments (plain Terminal.app and VS Code's integrated terminal) and across both a dev-only session and a build → dev cycle.

🛠️ To reproduce

🌈 Expected behavior

ℹ️ Additional context

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