[robobun]

Problem

• test/bake/dev/css.test.ts takes 68 s on the debian 13 x64-asan lane (build #103933) for 15 tests.
• Each case starts its own dev server process. The runner leak-checks this file on that lane, so each process spends about 3.9 s in its exit. Bodies take 0.1 s to 1.1 s. 15 exits are about 57 s of the 68 s.

Fix

• Add devTestGroup to test/bake/bake-harness.ts. Its cases share one dev server, started in beforeAll and exited in afterAll. Each case is still its own test(). devTest behaves as before. Both run the same extracted steps (writeProject, spawnDevServer, runCase).
• Move 14 of the 15 cases onto one group. Each case has its own route and directory (syntax-error/, asset-index/first.html) and ends with its files building. The bunfig plugin case keeps its own server, because a resolver plugin applies to every route.
• The leak check still covers every case, once, at the group's exit.
• Verified: bun bd test test/bake/dev/css.test.ts, 15 tests before and after, expect() calls 78 to 93. Local debug ASAN build: 39.7 s before, 22.6 s after. With the asan lane environment: 47.4 s before, 24.4 s after. Also html.test.ts and dev-and-prod.test.ts in test/bake, and this file on a Windows Server 2019 x64 debug build (15 of 15, twice).

Background

• scripts/runner.node.mjs runs a file not listed in test/no-validate-leaksan.txt with ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=1 and BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1. The dev server child inherits both, so its exit scans the whole heap. The listed html.test.ts exits each server in 0.1 s.
• The dev server keeps one set of bundling failures for the whole project. An error page lists all of them, whichever route owns the failing file. So every case must end with valid files.

Notes

Assertion changes, per case:

• "css file with syntax error does not kill old styles": after the failed write, also asserts the new background-color rule did not appear. The old stylesheet is intact, not partially applied.
• "css file with initial syntax error gets recovered": adds a second error and recovery on the loaded page, which is the hot update path and not the reload path. Asserts the color holds during the error and updates after the fix. This also leaves the file valid for the next case.
• "asset referenced in css": asserts the full served stylesheet text (the path comment, the rule with the resolved asset URL, nothing else) instead of toContain("background-image:"), and asserts the URL changes with the image.
• "syntax error crash": asserts the 200 body has the page content and the 500 body is the "Bun - Build Failed" page. Adds the recovery step: after the file parses again the route serves 200 with the content.
• "css url resolve error on hot reload is recoverable": the same body assertions for the 500 and 200 responses.
• "multiple stylesheets importing same dependency": after the shared file changes, asserts each importer's own rule is still present.
• "css import before create" and "... project relative": assert status 500 while the import is unresolved and 200 after recovery.

Interaction with #40092: after a failed CSS build recovers, the stored HTML keeps the source <link href="styles.css"> tag. On main the catch-all /* route served HTML for that href, which hid it. With one route per case the href is a 404, so the client fixture waits its 1 s cap for that link on three page loads ("Reached maximum CSS load check attempts" in the log). #40092 removes the tag and with it the wait. Its one new assertion needs a one-line rebase onto the new route and href.

Other open PRs that append devTest cases to this file (#37051, #39251, #33405) still apply: devTest and extractCssUrl keep their places at the top and bottom of the file. #39488 rewrites this file and the harness and will conflict.

Timing source: the asan lane log of build #103933. For each case the gap between its last dev server line and the test's pass marker is 3.8 s to 4.0 s. Locally the same gap is 1.1 s on a debug build, 1.0 s of which is require("bun:internal-for-testing") in the graceful-exit handler (19 ms on a release build).

Not changed: the 50 ms coalesce sleep per dev.write and the client fixture's CSS load wait, both harness-wide.

Failure modes of a group: a failing case leaves its files in whatever state it reached, so a later case that loads an error page can see its failure too. The first failure is the real one. A dev.write() that fails its assertion still closes its batch (batchChanges resets batchingChanges in a finally block), so later cases keep synchronizing their writes. A case that times out takes the shared server with it (bun test kills every subprocess of a timed-out test), so the next case starts a new server on the same project, and afterAll skips the graceful exit of a server that is already gone. A leak in any case fails the group's afterAll with the LeakSanitizer report, the same report a devTest case would get.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Changes

The dev-server harness now supports reusable project setup, centralized server lifecycle management, standalone execution helpers, and grouped test cases. CSS development tests now run as isolated routes on shared server processes and cover recovery, reload, asset, and resolution behavior.

Dev-server test infrastructure

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Project configuration and generation test/bake/bake-harness.ts	Adds project types and shared helpers for project writing, HTML route normalization, entry validation, timeout calculation, and test naming.
Server lifecycle and test execution test/bake/bake-harness.ts	Centralizes server startup, HMR connection, disposal, dangling-process cleanup, standalone execution, failure reporting, batch reset, and interactive filtering.
Grouped test API and CSS migration test/bake/bake-harness.ts, test/bake/dev/css.test.ts	Adds devTestGroup with isolated cases and shared setup. Migrates CSS tests to route-specific grouped cases with recovery, reload, asset, and resolution assertions.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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[robobun]

Status: closed, not merged. The slowness this PR set out to remove was fixed on main by #40136 before this branch started.

How the numbers were checked: the 68 s came from the x64-asan lane of build #103933, whose base predates #40136. On this PR's base the unchanged test/bake/dev/css.test.ts runs in 12.35 s and 13.01 s on that lane (builds #104106 and #104111), and this PR's layout runs in 12.17 s (#104131). Locally on a debug build the file went from 39.7 s to 22.6 s, but that cost is the require("bun:internal-for-testing") load in the harness's graceful-exit handler (about 1 s per dev server process on a debug build, 19 ms on a release build), which is a harness-only matter.

[robobun]

^{Updated 4:48 AM PT - Aug 23rd, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 9c53521 has 1 failures in Build #104131 (All Failures):

• test/integration/next-pages/test/dev-server-ssr-100.test.ts - code 1 on 🪟 2019 x64

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[robobun]

The review finding matches what the first CI run showed: every grouped case returned 404 on the Windows lanes. Commit 8213b9f fixes indexHtmlScript to derive the route keys from posix-normalized paths, the same normalization the import specifier line already had. The thread is resolved. A Windows run of the file on this head is in progress, and CI runs again on the new push.

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In `@test/bake/dev/css.test.ts`:
- Around line 334-402: Make the asset-slot ordering invariant in the test
explicit: ensure the test runs with its own dev server, or otherwise guarantee
that second.css is the final registered asset when first.css is freed. Preserve
the existing swapRemoveAt regression scenario and assertions in the test named
“asset index stays valid after another css root is freed”.

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[robobun]

Addressed the second review finding in ae0b66c. batchChanges() now resets its open-batch marker in a finally block, and a group clears the marker before each case. Without that, a case that failed inside a dev.write() left the batch open, and every later write on the shared server skipped its synchronization. The thread is resolved. CI runs again on the new head.

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In `@test/bake/bake-harness.ts`:
- Around line 2351-2353: Update the active-batch lifecycle around runCase so the
timed-out batch stores a cancellation function that removes its listeners and
settles its pending seenFiles.promise wait. Invoke that cancellation before
clearing server.dev.batchingChanges and starting the next test case, ensuring
the stale disposer cannot emit its "H" message or consume the next case's
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[robobun]

All review threads are answered and resolved. The last one asked to cancel a batch left pending by a timed-out case. That situation cannot arise: bun test kills every subprocess of a timed-out test, the shared dev server included, so nothing can wake the old disposer. What a timeout does need is in 9c53521: the next case starts a new dev server on the same project, and the group's afterAll does not try a graceful exit on a server that is already gone. Checked with a scratch group where the first case times out inside a write: the cases after the one right behind it pass on the new server. CI runs on 9c53521.

[robobun]

Answered the review note about stale clients after a timeout. It was written against ae0b66c. On the current head a timed-out case takes its server and its client subprocess down with it (the runner kills both), and the next case runs on a new server with a new Dev, so there is no stale client or batch marker to reset. The thread is resolved. No code change was needed for it.

[claude]

LGTM — all three earlier findings (Windows route-key backslashes, batchChanges not clearing on throw, stale per-case state after timeout) are addressed on this head, and the bug-hunting pass found nothing new.

Checked that the testImpl → writeProject/spawnDevServer/runCase/runStandalone extraction preserves the old disposal order (stream → devProcess → dangling-process kill) and the graceful-exit-only-on-success behavior for existing devTest callers. Verified each grouped case ends with its files buildable so the shared server's global error set is empty for the next case, and that routes with intentionally-broken initial files (initial-syntax-error, before-create, project-relative) aren't bundled until their own case requests them.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only change across two files. test/bake/bake-harness.ts extracts the body of testImpl.run() into writeProject, spawnDevServer, runCase, and runStandalone (plus small helpers testName/testTimeout/interactiveFilter/hasExited/killDanglingProcesses), then adds devTestGroup/groupImpl on top of them. batchChanges()'s disposer gains a try/finally with an identity-checked reset, and indexHtmlScript normalizes to posix once. test/bake/dev/css.test.ts moves 14 of 15 cases into one devTestGroup with per-case subdirectories and routes; several cases gain stronger assertions and a recovery step so they end in a buildable state.

Security risks

None. Test harness and test file only; no production code, no auth/crypto/permission surfaces.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. The diff is large (~1k lines) but is test infrastructure whose failure mode is CI flakiness, not user-facing breakage. The harness refactor is a mechanical extraction — I traced the old run() against runStandalone and the disposal order, error-path behavior (no gracefulExit on failure), and waitForLine-throw cleanup are all preserved via the DevServerHandle disposer and its catch-and-dispose in spawnDevServer. The novel surface is devTestGroup's shared Dev across cases; that's where all four review rounds focused.

Other factors

This PR has been through three prior claude[bot] review passes and two CodeRabbit threads; every finding produced a fix commit or a verified rebuttal (the timeout-kills-subprocesses behavior was empirically checked). The author verified on debug+ASAN locally, with the asan-lane env, and on Windows Server 2019. The bug-hunting system found nothing on the current head. The remaining risk — cross-case interference on the shared server — is bounded to this one test file and is self-detecting in CI.

[robobun]

Closing this PR. The self-review checked the Problem section against builds on this PR's own base, and the problem is no longer there.

• The 68 s figure came from build #103933, whose base is 13 commits before this PR's base. server: take StaticRoute, FileRoute, HTMLBundle and DirectoryRoute to zero unsafe #40136 (merged 2026-08-23 05:40 UTC, an ancestor of this base) changed the HTMLBundle and route teardown, and with it the 3.9 s that each dev server process spent in its exit. I attributed that time to the leak check. It was the teardown.
• On this PR's base the unchanged file runs in 12.35 s and 13.01 s on the x64-asan lane (builds #104106 and #104111, 15 servers). This PR's layout runs in 12.17 s (#104131). On the debian x64 lane: 12.78 s and 10.27 s unchanged, 11.99 s with this PR. There is no CI time to win here.
• The local gain (39.7 s to 22.6 s on a debug build) comes from a debug-only cost: require("bun:internal-for-testing") in the graceful-exit handler of harness_start.ts takes about 1 s per process on a debug build (19 ms on a release build). That belongs in one place, not in a restructured test file.
• bake: consolidate the open robobun dev-server, HMR runtime, production build and router fixes #39488 already rewrites css.test.ts around one shared dev server, with its own posix route-key fix, so the grouping primitive added here would have no caller once it lands.

Nothing from this branch needs to land. The status comment above describes how the numbers were measured.