diff --git a/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/client/vite-node.ts b/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/client/vite-node.ts
index bb3bb5402..3b9868d35 100644
--- a/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/client/vite-node.ts
+++ b/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/client/vite-node.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { tinyassert } from "@hiogawa/utils";
 import type { ViteNodeRunnerOptions } from "vite-node";
 import { ViteNodeRunner } from "vite-node/client";
 import { installSourcemapsSupport } from "vite-node/source-map";
+import { ESModulesRunner, ViteRuntime } from "vite/runtime";
 import type { ViteNodeRpc } from "..";
 import { __setDebug } from "./polyfills/debug";
 import { __setUnsafeEval } from "./polyfills/node-vm";
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ import { __setUnsafeEval } from "./polyfills/node-vm";
 export interface ViteNodeMiniflareClient {
   rpc: TinyRpcProxy<ViteNodeRpc>;
   runner: ViteNodeRunner;
+  runtime: ViteRuntime;
 }
 
 export function createViteNodeClient(options: {
@@ -29,6 +31,38 @@ export function createViteNodeClient(options: {
     adapter: httpClientAdapter({ url: options.serverRpcUrl }),
   });
 
+  const runtime = new ViteRuntime(
+    {
+      root: options.runnerOptions.root,
+      fetchModule(id, importer) {
+        console.log({ id, importer });
+        return rpc.ssrFetchModule(id, importer);
+      },
+      // TODO
+      // hmr: {},
+    },
+    {
+      ...new ESModulesRunner(), // TODO: processImport?
+
+      async runViteModule(context, transformed) {
+        // do same as vite-node/client
+        // https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/blob/c6e04125fb4a0af2db8bd58ea193b965d50d415f/packages/vite-node/src/client.ts#L415
+        const codeDefinition = `'use strict';async (${Object.keys(context).join(
+          ","
+        )})=>{{`;
+        const code = `${codeDefinition}${transformed}\n}}`;
+        const fn = options.unsafeEval.eval(code, "todo-filename");
+        await fn(...Object.values(context));
+        Object.freeze(context.__vite_ssr_exports__);
+      },
+
+      runExternalModule(filepath, metadata) {
+        console.error("[runExternalModule]", filepath, metadata);
+        throw new Error(`[runExternalModule] ${filepath}`);
+      },
+    }
+  );
+
   const runner = new ViteNodeRunner({
     ...options.runnerOptions,
     fetchModule(id) {
@@ -53,7 +87,7 @@ export function createViteNodeClient(options: {
     },
   });
 
-  return { rpc, runner };
+  return { rpc, runner, runtime };
 }
 
 function setupBufferPolyfill() {
diff --git a/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/client/worker-entry.ts b/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/client/worker-entry.ts
index 149c23a83..44bfa8bf4 100644
--- a/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/client/worker-entry.ts
+++ b/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/client/worker-entry.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,22 @@ export default {
         debug: env.__VITE_NODE_DEBUG,
       });
 
+      if (1) {
+        // TODO: hmr, full-reload
+
+        // TODO: for now, invalidate module tree like before?
+        client.runtime.moduleCache;
+
+        const workerEntry = await client.runtime.executeEntrypoint(
+          env.__WORKER_ENTRY
+        );
+        const workerEnv = {
+          ...env,
+          __VITE_NODE_MINIFLARE_CLIENT: client,
+        };
+        return await workerEntry.default.fetch(request, workerEnv, ctx);
+      }
+
       // invalidate modules similar to nuxt
       // https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/blob/1de44a5a5ca5757d53a8b52c9809cbc027d2d246/packages/vite/src/runtime/vite-node.mjs#L21-L23
       const invalidatedModules = await client.rpc.getInvalidatedModules();
diff --git a/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/server/vite-node.ts b/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/server/vite-node.ts
index 35a09707a..843c49098 100644
--- a/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/server/vite-node.ts
+++ b/packages/vite-node-miniflare/src/server/vite-node.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { WORKER_ENTRY_SCRIPT } from "../client/worker-entry-script";
 // prettier-ignore
 export type ViteNodeRpc =
   Pick<ViteNodeServer, "fetchModule" | "resolveId"> &
-  Pick<ViteDevServer, "transformIndexHtml"> &
+  Pick<ViteDevServer, "transformIndexHtml" | "ssrFetchModule"> &
   {
     getInvalidatedModules: () => string[];
   };
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ export function setupViteNodeServerRpc(
     fetchModule: viteNodeServer.fetchModule.bind(viteNodeServer),
     resolveId: viteNodeServer.resolveId.bind(viteNodeServer),
     transformIndexHtml: viteNodeServer.server.transformIndexHtml,
+    ssrFetchModule: viteNodeServer.server.ssrFetchModule,
     getInvalidatedModules: () => {
       // there must be at most one client to make use of this RPC
       const result = [...invalidatedModules];