Loader is not loaded when using "-e ..." #33303

• Version: 14.2.0
• Platform: MacOS
• Subsystem: ESM

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. Create an empty loader.mjs:

console.log('loader loaded')

2. Create a file foo.js to be executed:

console.log('foo loaded')

3. Now run foo.js with the loader:

node --loader=./empty.mjs foo.js

As expected, it will print both loader loaded and foo loaded

4. Now run foo.js, but using -e:

node --loader=./empty.mjs -e 'require("./foo.js")'

Only foo loaded is run, whereas I would expect loaded loaded to also be printed.

5. node --loader=./empty.mjs -e 'import("./foo.js")'

This also prints only foo loaded, which means that it's not lazy loading of the loader.

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Consistently

What is the expected behavior?

The loader should be loaded even when using -e.

What do you see instead?

Loader is not loaded when using -e.