fix: apply module search paths restriction on worker and child process (#41138)

Co-authored-by: trop[bot] <37223003+trop[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Cheng Zhao <zcbenz@gmail.com>

lib/common/init.ts

@@ -73,3 +73,43 @@ if (process.platform === 'win32') {
     }
   });
 }
+
+const Module = require('module') as NodeJS.ModuleInternal;
+
+// Make a fake Electron module that we will insert into the module cache
+const makeElectronModule = (name: string) => {
+  const electronModule = new Module('electron', null);
+  electronModule.id = 'electron';
+  electronModule.loaded = true;
+  electronModule.filename = name;
+  Object.defineProperty(electronModule, 'exports', {
+    get: () => require('electron')
+  });
+  Module._cache[name] = electronModule;
+};
+
+makeElectronModule('electron');
+makeElectronModule('electron/common');
+if (process.type === 'browser') {
+  makeElectronModule('electron/main');
+}
+if (process.type === 'renderer') {
+  makeElectronModule('electron/renderer');
+}
+
+const originalResolveFilename = Module._resolveFilename;
+
+// 'electron/main', 'electron/renderer' and 'electron/common' are module aliases
+// of the 'electron' module for TypeScript purposes, i.e., the types for
+// 'electron/main' consist of only main process modules, etc. It is intentional
+// that these can be `require()`-ed from both the main process as well as the
+// renderer process regardless of the names, they're superficial for TypeScript
+// only.
+const electronModuleNames = new Set(['electron', 'electron/main', 'electron/renderer', 'electron/common']);
+Module._resolveFilename = function (request, parent, isMain, options) {
+  if (electronModuleNames.has(request)) {
+    return 'electron';
+  } else {
+    return originalResolveFilename(request, parent, isMain, options);
+  }
+};