fix: externalize CJS-only npm packages in SSR build

[bartlomieju]

Summary

CJS dependencies (Sharp, ioredis, MongoDB, etc.) cause fatal TDZ ReferenceError when building for production, even though they work fine in dev mode. The root cause is that Fresh's CJS-to-ESM babel transform hoists require() calls to import declarations, and Rollup can reorder these const bindings in the bundled output, causing references before initialization.

Fix: Instead of transforming CJS modules, externalize them in the SSR build. They're loaded at runtime by Deno's Node compat layer, which handles CJS natively.

How it works

The SSR Rollup config now has an external function that checks each imported package:

1. Reads the package's package.json from node_modules
2. If the package has "type": "module", a "module" field, or "import" conditions in "exports" → keep bundled (ESM, no issues)
3. If the package is CJS-only (none of the above) → externalize (skip CJS transform, load at runtime)

Framework packages (preact, @preact/signals, fresh) are always bundled regardless, to prevent duplicate module instances.

Impact

Should fix the entire class of "CJS dependency breaks production build" issues:

• CJS dependencies cause fatal issues when building/running that go unnoticed in dev mode #3653 — Sharp
• ioredis is inoperable in Fresh 2 #3673 — ioredis
• mongoose (CJS) import error #3505 — mongoose
• Error on mongodb #3478 — MongoDB
• @supabase/postgres-js breaks due to commonjs #3449 — @supabase/postgres-js

Closes #3653

Test plan

• All 28 existing build tests pass (2 pre-existing pwa failures unrelated)
• Clone the reproduction repo and verify deno task build && deno task start works
• Test with ioredis, MongoDB, and other CJS deps
• Verify preact/signals still work correctly (no duplicate module issues)

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[lunadogbot]

CI is red on every test job because packages/plugin-vite/tests/fixtures/cjs_dependency/routes/index.tsx:3 imports cjs-test-module but the fixture has no deno.json (or package.json) declaring the import, so deno task check:types fails with TS2307: Import "cjs-test-module" not a dependency and not in import map. The integration test in build_test.ts:689 also expects node_modules/cjs-test-module/ to exist for the symlink and prod launch, but no such fixture is committed. Add a deno.json to the fixture and commit (or generate during test setup) a minimal node_modules/cjs-test-module/{package.json,index.js}.

• nit: isCjsOnly (packages/plugin-vite/src/mod.ts:106) checks for the import condition via JSON.stringify(pkg.exports).includes('"import"') — substring-matches any key or value containing the literal "import" (e.g. a custom "importmap" condition or a path with import in its name). Walking the exports object and looking for an exact import key is more robust.