feat: replace ts-node with tsx for parsing user configuration

[AtofStryker]

Closes

• Closes feat: replace ts-node with tsx for user configuration parsing and cypress runtime #31185
• Closes Cypress forces an invalid moduleResolution value for Typescript 5.7.3; it is unable to start #30954
• Closes cypress open not working #30925
• Closes TypeScript and package.json type module (ESM) shows "ExperimentalWarning: --experimental-loader" #30318 (no longer need the --experimental-loader option)
• Closes Use unjs/jiti instead of ts-node #30718 (tsx will be used to replace ts-node instead of jiti)
• Closes Cypress fails to start if tsconfig contains "allowImportingTsExtensions": true #28442
• Closes Your configFile is invalid [ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION]: Unknown file extension ".ts" #27450
• Closes Scaffolded project with "tsc --init" + "type": "module" fails to compile due to conflicting module/commonjs  #27359
• Closes Unable to supply own ts-node ignore values in tsconfig.json #26606
• Closes Cannot consume ES module based cypress config when using Yarn 3  #22747
• Closes Yarn 3 + cypress.config.ts does not work #25958
• Closes Yarn 3 does not work with type=module and cypress.config.js #25959
• Closes After Spec API TypeScript Code breaks the config.ts file - [ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION]: Unknown file extension ".ts" #23141
• Closes Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: Must use import to load ES Module error thrown #8090
• Closes "Couldn't find tsconfig.json" error in JavaScript monorepo #30907
• Closes Error message printed to the console: Couldn't find tsconfig.json. tsconfig-paths will be skipped #22273 (duplicate)
• Closes Do not show tsconfig.json warning in terminal for TS projects without tsconfig.json #21805 (duplicate)
• Closes Missing baseUrl in compilerOptions. tsconfig-paths will be skipped #15724 (duplicate)

Side effect of not using Node as the loader

• Reinforces Your configFile is invalid with Node.js 22.12.0 #30715 (don't need to worry about the --no-experimental-require-module as we aren't using Node directly as the file loader. see https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v22.12.0#requireesm-is-now-enabled-by-default)
  -Reinforces ERR_INTERNAL_ASSERTION with Node.js >= v22.1.0 and experimental-detect-module set #30101 (don't need to worry about the --no-experimental-detect-module option as we aren't using Node directly as the file loader. see https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V22.md?rgh-link-date=2024-08-22T15%3A58%3A27Z#module-syntax-detection-is-now-enabled-by-default)

Additional details

Introduces tsx as the new tool of choice to load and parse the end user's cypress.config.(js|ts), replacing ts-node. This solves a lot of issues around ESM projects using Cypress as we are now able to more easily run ESM based cypress configurations (TypeScript or JavaScript) within the Cypress child process. This means we don't need ts-node work arounds to try to run the user's config as commonjs, which results in configuration clashes in TypeScript, nor do we need nodes experimental loaders / options to run ESM JavaScript projects.

Steps to test

Go through some of the reproductions in the aforementioned issues and run the pre release binary installed in the project. Notice the project is now able to run

How has the user experience changed?

The TypeScript / ESM experience is greatly improved as users are now able to run Cypress in their project without having to commit to hacky workarounds!

PR Tasks

• Have tests been added/updated? added in 3dfeeb9
• Has a PR for user-facing changes been opened in cypress-documentation? chore: update typescript docs to tsx cypress-documentation#6155
• Have API changes been updated in the type definitions? (N/A)

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cypress    Run #61848

Run Properties:   Passed #61848  •  7670fed0bd: Merge branch 'release/15.0.0' of github.com:cypress-io/cypress into feat/replace...

Project	cypress
Branch Review	feat/replace_tsnode_for_tsx_config_process
Run status	Passed #61848
Run duration	18m 01s
Commit	7670fed0bd: Merge branch 'release/15.0.0' of github.com:cypress-io/cypress into feat/replace...
Committer	AtofStryker
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Flaky	1
Pending	29
Skipped	0
Passing	792
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UI Coverage  64.37%
Untested elements	29
Tested elements	56

Accessibility  96.21%
Failed rules	0 critical   4 serious   1 moderate   0 minor
Failed elements	196