Invalid arch info in require('os').arch()

[0x009922]

Current behavior

On macOS 11.4 20F71 arm64 I am getting x64 arch inside of Cypress' plugin environment (i.e. in cypress/plugins/index.js), but in any other script I am getting the correct arm64.

// cypress/plugins/index.js

const os = require('os')

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  throw new Error(os.arch()) // throws `x64` instead of `arm64`
}

Desired behavior

Cypress should provide correct system information.

Test code to reproduce

Here is a reproduction: https://github.com/0x009922/cypress-issue-invalid-os

Cypress Version

8.7.0

Other

It breaks usage of esbuild@^0.13.0 with "optionalDependencies" installation strategy (see evanw/esbuild#789). pnpm installs correct esbuild-darwin-arm64 and it works outside of Cypress, but when esbuild tries to build something in plugin (e.g. in cypress-esbuild-preprocessor) it tries to resolve esbuild-darwin-x64 package according to os.arch(), and it fails. Apparently, this is not a bug of esbuild, but of Cypress.

[jennifer-shehane]

Are you using the default nodeVersion in Cypress? It defaults to the bundled Node version, does this behavior change if you set it to use system?

[0x009922]

@jennifer-shehane, yes, setting nodeVersion to system changed the behavior to the desired.
I consider this issue is closed. Thank you!