Vitest browser mode breaks ensureFileWatched

[mrginglymus]

Describe the bug

Files in vitest that would normally be watched by vitest here:

https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/30194fa1e41dda6470aa20f2bb34655c4bfd9cd1/packages/vite/src/node/server/transformRequest.ts#L286-L292

are not watched when running in browser mode, as environment.pluginContainer.watcher is a no-op watcher. This will apply in fact to any attempt to watch a file via the PluginContainer.

Reproduction

https://github.com/mrginglymus/vitest-pnp

System Info

System:
    OS: Windows 10 10.0.19045
    CPU: (24) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10920X CPU @ 3.50GHz
    Memory: 20.97 GB / 63.80 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 22.13.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
    Yarn: 4.5.2 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\yarn.CMD
    npm: 10.9.2 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  Browsers:
    Edge: Chromium (131.0.2903.146)
    Internet Explorer: 11.0.19041.4355

Used Package Manager

yarn

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[mrginglymus]

A dirty workaround is to add:

vite.pluginContainer.environments.client._pluginContainer.watcher = project.vite.watcher;

here:

vitest/packages/browser/src/node/index.ts

Line 73 in 9e40437