[robobun]

Fixes #19808

Stacked on #41524: merge it first.

Problem

• The --target=browser polyfills read process, Buffer and setImmediate, which browsers lack. Readable.from(['a']) throws TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'nextTick').
• util.promisify throws ReferenceError: kCustomPromisifiedSymbol is not defined. callbackify and process.nextTick drop their arguments.
• require("assert") and require("events") return a namespace object, so assert(x) throws (bun build bundling of CJS require("node:assert") does not properly expose exports. and returns an empty {} object #19808, the one user report). zlib.gzipSync() throws the same way. zlib and console have no named exports.

Fix

• build-fallbacks.ts binds free process and Buffer in the npm packages with define: Buffer to the sibling polyfill, process to the host's under Node.js or Bun and to the sibling polyfill in a page.
• Fixes these bugs. zlib (with constants) and console list their names. assert and events build as CommonJS (overlaps bundler: return the module.exports export from require() of an ES module #42092). Each polyfill has a default export.
• Verified: test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts (16 tests fail on node-fallbacks: bundle the polyfills for the browser target, fix the crypto default export #41524), bun lint, Chromium 153. Self-reviewed: 37 concerns raised, 36 addressed (Notes).

Background

• build-fallbacks.ts bundles each file of src/node-fallbacks/. A browser build maps node:x to them.
• Considered the sibling process everywhere: stream.pipe(process.stdout) then ended stdout under Node.js-like hosts.

Downsides

• Minified size: up to +1.9 KB per builtin against node-fallbacks: bundle the polyfills for the browser target, fix the crypto default export #41524 (table in Notes).
• events and assert are CommonJS, like stream: a named import they lack (import { on } from "node:events") is undefined at run time, not a build error.
• In a page, ticks no longer wait for a timer: a loop that waits on nextTick for a timer never ends.

Notes

What has a user report. Only #19808 does (related: #5894, #21522). Its fix is assert.js, events.js and the format rule in build-fallbacks.ts. The repro of #19808 (require("node:assert"), then Assert.equal(1, 1) and Assert(true), built with bun build and run) prints Success! here and throws on main. Every other change fixes a defect that a read of the polyfills found. #5894 (a bare process or Buffer in user code) stays open: this PR binds the two names inside the polyfills only.

History. This PR consolidates #35484 and #40072, with credit in the commits.

• From node-fallbacks: fix the util polyfill and lint the polyfills for undeclared names #40072: its util.js and path.js, the no-undef override in oxlint.json, and browser/NodeUtilPolyfill. util.js has three later changes, listed under "util".
• From node-fallbacks: route the stream polyfill's process shim to require('process') and forward nextTick args #35484: browser/NodeStreamWithoutGlobalProcess and browser/NodeProcessNextTickForwardsArgs.
• zlib.constants: @Neekoras reported the gap and proposed the fix in a comment on this PR.

The stack. #41524 builds the polyfills with Bun.build({ target: "browser" }) and a plugin, and binds Buffer for crypto.js. The merge commits take its build-fallbacks.ts. The table of this PR (process and Buffer, for every polyfill) replaces its one-file binding, and the module.exports rule replaces its file name check for the CommonJS format. The test browser/NodeStreamTicksOnTheHostProcess of #41524 is renamed to browser/NodeStreamTicksBeforeSetImmediate.

process for the packages in a polyfill.

• define rewrites only unbound references, so a local var Buffer in a package is safe. The binding of process takes the host's when globalThis.process?.versions?.node is set and process.nextTick is a function, and the sibling polyfill in every other case. A page has no process. A page with a partial shim (process = { env }, or npm process/browser.js, whose versions is empty) gets the polyfill, and so does a host whose process has no nextTick.
• An earlier revision always used the polyfill. With a host process (checked under Bun) that changed two things that work on main. readable-stream compares a pipe's destination with process.stdout, so stream.pipe(process.stdout) ended stdout and the next write failed. And the polyfill's one microtask drain ran every caller's ticks in the AsyncLocalStorage store of the first caller. browser/NodeStreamPipeKeepsHostStdoutOpen and browser/NodeStreamKeepsHostAsyncContext cover both.
• User code is not affected: import process from "node:process" is the polyfill, as on main.
• The CommonJS polyfills (stream, assert) take the sibling with (m => m.default || m)(require("process")). A plugin can answer the polyfill's own import of process with a CommonJS module, which has no default. browser/PluginResolvesProcessOfPolyfillToCommonJS and browser/PluginLeavesProcessOfPolyfillExternal cover it. A dev server test (test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts) covers the same import through hmr.require().
• Buffer is always the sibling polyfill's. Two Buffer classes in one polyfill do not mix (node-fallbacks: bundle the polyfills for the browser target, fix the crypto default export #41524 has the details).

No binding with the name of the global it calls. The non-minified output has the polyfill's top-level names as top-level vars. In a classic <script> those are properties of window. An earlier revision had var setTimeout = (...args) => globalThis.setTimeout(...args), which replaced the page's setTimeout with a function that called itself (RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded). timers.js now keeps its wrappers under other names and exports them as setTimeout and so on. It reads the timer functions once at load. buffer.js does the same for atob and btoa, which threw TypeError: Illegal invocation when called through require("buffer"). Two files of main had the same problem and are fixed too: querystring.js replaced the page's escape and unescape, and a top-level function hasOwnProperty in util.js replaced window.hasOwnProperty. The timers tests and browser/NodePolyfillDefaultImports (every polyfill in one bundle) run a third time as a classic script in a vm context that has web globals only, and fail when the bundle replaced one of them. I also loaded a bundle with <script src> in Chromium 153: the timers work and the page's own setTimeout is still the native one.

process.nextTick.

• It drains in one microtask. No promise job runs between a tick and the tick that it queues. A tick that throws drops only itself: the ticks behind it run in the next microtask. browser/NodeProcessNextTickOrder and browser/NodeProcessNextTickThrow pin both.
• It differs from Node.js in one case. From a script, a timer or an event, Node.js runs a tick before the promise jobs that are already queued. A browser has no hook for that.
• On main a tick was a setTimeout(0), so each tick waited for a timer. That is the behavior change in Downsides.
• The drain keeps an index into the batch and copies nothing on a throw (main copied the rest of the batch each time). It takes a fresh array per batch, so a long chain of ticks does not keep finished callbacks reachable (browser/NodeProcessNextTickChainReleasesCallbacks).
• nextTick(nonFunction) throws a TypeError with code: "ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE" and does not coerce the value.
• The polyfill has no emitWarning, as on main. npm assert probes for it and falls back to console.warn.

util.

• The util polyfill follows npm util 0.12.5, not Node.js: it keeps names that Node.js removed and lacks newer ones. types is still the stub of main (() => {}), so types.isDate() throws.
• debuglog never prints, as on main, where the build defines process.env.NODE_DEBUG as false. node-fallbacks: fix the util polyfill and lint the polyfills for undeclared names #40072 read the variable at run time.
• promisify handles the page's own setTimeout and setImmediate, which have no promisify.custom function. Without that branch, the now working promisify passes the callback last: promisify(setTimeout)(20, "v") never settles in a browser, which takes the delay as the handler. This form does not take { signal }.
• deprecate() returns the function as it is when there is no process global.

timers. The exported setTimeout and setImmediate have a util.promisify.custom function, as in Node.js, with { signal } support (AbortError, code ABORT_ERR). Browsers have no setImmediate: the export falls back to setTimeout(fn, 0).

Exports.

• zlib lists the names of browserify-zlib, and constants has its 39 Z_* values. console lists the methods of the global console.
• The build gives an ES module polyfill without a default export one that has every named export (os, constants, process, util). browser/NodePolyfillDefaultImports checks every polyfill.
• assert and events are CommonJS, so that require() of them returns the function. This is the approach of node-fallbacks: fix assert() and new EventEmitter() in browser bundles #41328, which was closed in favor of bundler: return the module.exports export from require() of an ES module #42092. It is here because browserify-zlib calls require("assert") as a function, and because it fixes bun build bundling of CJS require("node:assert") does not properly expose exports. and returns an empty {} object #19808 without a bundler change. When bundler: return the module.exports export from require() of an ES module #42092 lands (a bundle's require() of an ES module returns its module.exports export), both files can be ES modules again.
• The cost of CommonJS: the bundler checks a named import against the export list of an ES module, and it cannot do that for a CommonJS module. On main, import { on } from "node:events" and import { partialDeepStrictEqual } from "node:assert" fail the build with Browser polyfill for module "node:events" doesn't have a matching export named "on". Here both build and the name is undefined. An export * from "node:events" in an ES module no longer re-exports the names. node:stream is CommonJS on main and already behaves that way.
• browser/NodePolyfills has a snapshot of the names that bun's own builtins export and the polyfills do not (from src/codegen/builtins/data/module-exports.txt). A polyfill that gains a name changes one line of it.
• More names resolve now. A server build that forgot --target failed on main with the note "Bun's bundler defaults to browser builds". With a name that now exists, for example import { gzipSync } from "node:zlib", it builds with the polyfill and shows no note.

Checks on the built files.

• The no-undef lint (from node-fallbacks: fix the util polyfill and lint the polyfills for undeclared names #40072, see Bun bundler (tree shaking?) excluded a function of a transitive dependency #21522) reads the 23 hand-written sources only. The npm packages exist only in the built files. browser/NodePolyfills now lints a bundle of all polyfills with no-undef: it reports process, Buffer, kCustomPromisifiedSymbol and pid with the polyfills of node-fallbacks: bundle the polyfills for the browser target, fix the crypto default export #41524, and nothing here.
• build-fallbacks.ts fails when a built polyfill reads setImmediate, clearImmediate, __dirname or __filename.
• Removed from build-fallbacks.ts because they changed no output: the skip lists and the global.Buffer define.

Tests. test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts: 46 pass. With the polyfills of #41524 (62c654b), 16 of them fail. Each test whose code can see the host runs twice: as it is, and after /without-node-globals.js deleted process, Buffer, global, setImmediate and clearImmediate and gave the timer and base64 globals the receiver check of a browser. browser/NodeHttpPolyfill of #41524 has the second run too: without the binding it fails there with ReferenceError: Buffer is not defined. Also run: bundler_regressions and the new dev server test.

Bundle size. bun build --target=browser --minify, bytes. Columns: main (2596ac5), #41524 (62c654b), this stack, and the difference to #41524.

import assert from "node:assert"            78373   69250   71170   +1920
import { createHash } from "node:crypto"   530487  483366  484771   +1405
import { EventEmitter } from "node:events"   6994    6994    7668    +674
import { get } from "node:http"            199454  106237  107288   +1051
import { join } from "node:path"             4537    4537    4556     +19
import { nextTick } from "node:process"       487     487     493      +6
import p from "node:punycode"                3485    3102    3102       0
import { Readable } from "node:stream"     129231  121549  123095   +1546
import { setImmediate } from "node:timers"    134     134     635    +501
import util from "node:util"                 7293    7293    7833    +540
import { promisify } from "node:util"        6072    6072    5287    -785
import zlib from "node:zlib"               264367  256586  257375    +789

Chromium. Headless Chromium 153, bundle loaded with <script type=module> from a local server. 31 checks (24 of node:crypto), each compared with Node.js 26.3: main 2, #41524 23, this stack 30. With #41524 alone these fail in a page: Readable.from, PassThrough and a hash used as a stream (Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'nextTick')), http.get (Buffer is not defined), the code of an assert.strictEqual error, and a zlib round trip (assert is not a function). The one miss of the stack is createCipheriv("aes-128-ecb", key, null): browserify-aes does not accept a null IV. path.resolve() throws ReferenceError: process is not defined on main and returns /x here.

Self-review. A review of the stacked diff raised 37 concerns. 36 are addressed in the code, the tests or this text. Not done: the review asked to delete the test proof block below, which is written by automation and is replaced on its next run.

Not fixed here.

• util.types (a stub). node-fallbacks: implement util.types in the util polyfill #43727 implemented it (3 differences from Node.js over 43 predicates and 61 values) and its author closed it. It costs 3.3 KB minified in a bundle that has the util polyfill.
• The sub-paths assert/strict, path/posix, path/win32, stream/promises, stream/web, stream/consumers, util/types and timers/promises have no polyfill. They resolve to an empty stub, so timers.promises is a stub too.
• The names in the snapshot above, among them console.Console, console.createTask and domain.Domain (left for a follow-up PR, see the comments).
• Six top-level polyfill names still equal a browser global: File and Blob (buffer.js), TextEncoder and TextDecoder (util.js), URL and URLSearchParams (url.js). Each assigns the global to itself, so a classic script keeps the page's own.
• The polyfill build removes the @__PURE__ marks, so a user's bundler cannot drop unused parts of util.js.
• The url polyfill throws on empty hosts. string_decoder does not take a plain Uint8Array. Buffer.from(s, "hex") differs on malformed input. The resolver's diagnostics differ for vm and node:vm.

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[policy-decision:dep] gate passed · iteration 5 · 16 files touched

fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 9 failed, 2 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939d9)

test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts:
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeBuffer#21522 [2039.56ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeBuffer#12272 [1110.99ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeFS [517.13ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeTTY [471.40ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeEventsOnce [733.00ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeUrlProtocolTablesIgnorePrototype [594.68ms]
runtime failed file: /tmp/bun-build-tests/bun-Toayfr/browser/NodePolyfills/out.js
stdout output:
{
  assert: {
    AssertionError: [Getter/Setter],
    CallTracker: [Getter/Setter],
    deepEqual: [Getter/Setter],
    deepStrictEqual: [Getter/Setter],
    default: [Getter/Setter],
    doesNotMatch: [Getter/Setter],
    doesNotReject: [Getter/Setter],
    doesNotThrow: [Getter/Setter],
    equal: [Getter/Setter],
    fail: [Getter/Setter],
    ifError: [Getter/Setter],
    match: [Getter/Setter],
    notDeepEqual: [Getter/Setter],
    notDeepStrictEqual: [Getter/Setter],
    notEqual: [Getter/Setter],
    notStrictEqual: [
... (truncated)

release without fix: 1 failed, 2 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (a2c3b68f1)

test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts:
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeBuffer#21522 [46.38ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeBuffer#12272 [30.02ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeFS [12.90ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeTTY [11.63ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeEventsOnce [21.80ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeUrlProtocolTablesIgnorePrototype [21.00ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodePolyfills [186.90ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodePolyfillDefaultImports [188.32ms]
(todo) bundler > browser/NodePolyfillExternal
(pass) bundler > browser/BrowserFieldDisablesPolyfilledBuiltin#4928 [14.68ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/BrowserFieldDisablesPolyfilledBuiltinNodePrefix#4928 [13.78ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/BrowserFieldRemapsPolyfilledBuiltin#4928 [13.59ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/BrowserFieldDisabledBuiltinStillPolyfillsOutsideScope [16.71ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/EntryPointDisabledByBrowserField [7.70ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/EntryPointDisabledByBrowserFieldNextToLiveEntryPoint [6.18ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/EntryPointDisabledByBrowserFieldOnlyAppliesToBrowserTarget [14.42ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/EntryPointDisabledByPackageMainBro
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: 2 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939d9)

test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts:
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeBuffer#21522 [2176.44ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeBuffer#12272 [807.74ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeFS [404.51ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeTTY [587.40ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeEventsOnce [625.22ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodeUrlProtocolTablesIgnorePrototype [646.70ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodePolyfills [10598.70ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/NodePolyfillDefaultImports [9260.48ms]
(todo) bundler > browser/NodePolyfillExternal
(pass) bundler > browser/BrowserFieldDisablesPolyfilledBuiltin#4928 [472.90ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/BrowserFieldDisablesPolyfilledBuiltinNodePrefix#4928 [447.08ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/BrowserFieldRemapsPolyfilledBuiltin#4928 [593.54ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/BrowserFieldDisabledBuiltinStillPolyfillsOutsideScope [705.95ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/EntryPointDisabledByBrowserField [410.70ms]
(pass) bundler > browser/EntryPointDisabledByBrowserFieldNextToL
... (truncated)

release with fix: 2 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 1185ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/211] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 121 exports (host=5, lazy=10, generic=106, rust=0); 245 extern-C blocks audited
[2/211] gen node-fallbacks/*.js
[3/211] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (13176ms)
Bundle modules (68ms)
Postprocesss modules (154ms)
Bundle Functions (650ms)
Generate Code (42ms)

[14.11s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2596 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[4/92] build.rs build_script_build
[5/92] rustc bun_platform 
[6/92] rustc bun_core 
[7/92] rustc bun_safety 
[8/92] rustc bun_output 
[9/92] rustc bun_zlib_sys 
[10/92] rustc bun_picohttp 
[11/92] rustc bun_brotli 
[12/92] rustc bun_boringssl_sys 
[13/92] rustc bun_errno 
[14/92] rustc bun_zstd 
[15/92] rustc bun_lsquic_sys 
[16/92] rustc bun_cares_sys 
[17/92] rustc bun_ptr 
[18/92] rustc bun_base64 
[19/92] rustc bun_clap 
[20/92] rustc bun_valkey 
[21/92] rustc bun_tcc_sys 
[22/92] rustc bun_paths 
[23/92] rustc bun_collections 
[24
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

oxlint.json                           |  17 ++
 package.json                          |   2 +-
 src/node-fallbacks/assert.js          |  27 +--
 src/node-fallbacks/build-fallbacks.ts |  40 +++--
 src/node-fallbacks/console.js         |  23 +++
 src/node-fallbacks/constants.js       | 210 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/node-fallbacks/domain.js          |   1 +
 src/node-fallbacks/events.js          |  14 +-
 src/node-fallbacks/os.js              |  20 +++
 src/node-fallbacks/path.js            |   2 +-
 src/node-fallbacks/process.js         |  91 ++++++----
 src/node-fallbacks/punycode.js        |   6 +-
 src/node-fallbacks/timers.js          |  22 ++-
 src/node-fallbacks/util.js            |  97 +++++++----
 src/node-fallbacks/zlib.js            |  76 +++++++-
 test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts  | 316 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 16 files changed, 837 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)

gate history · 6 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 5

evidence per changed file

file                                   reads  edits  tests
oxlint.json                                0      0     56
package.json                               0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/assert.js               0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/build-fallbacks.ts      2      1     56
src/node-fallbacks/console.js              0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/constants.js            0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/domain.js               0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/events.js               0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/os.js                   0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/path.js                 0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/process.js              1      2     56
src/node-fallbacks/punycode.js             0      1     56
src/node-fallbacks/timers.js               0      0     56
src/node-fallbacks/util.js                 2      3     56
src/node-fallbacks/zlib.js                 0      0     56
test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts       4      2     56

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Walkthrough

Browser Node fallbacks now expose expanded ESM and CommonJS interfaces and updated runtime behavior. The fallback builder selects module format from source content and injects referenced polyfills. Browser bundler tests cover these interfaces and behavior.

Changes

Node fallback compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fallback build and lint configuration bunfig.toml, oxlint.json, src/node-fallbacks/build-fallbacks.ts	The builder detects CommonJS assignments in source, selects the corresponding format, and prepends polyfill declarations for referenced aliases. Oxlint now checks fallback sources with browser and ES2024 environments, with CommonJS overrides for selected files.
Fallback module export surfaces src/node-fallbacks/assert.js, src/node-fallbacks/console.js, src/node-fallbacks/constants.js, src/node-fallbacks/domain.js, src/node-fallbacks/events.js, src/node-fallbacks/os.js, src/node-fallbacks/punycode.js, src/node-fallbacks/zlib.js	These fallback modules add default or named exports, or use CommonJS assignments, to expose their APIs through the updated module interfaces.
Browser runtime behavior src/node-fallbacks/process.js, src/node-fallbacks/path.js, src/node-fallbacks/timers.js, src/node-fallbacks/util.js	process.nextTick uses microtask scheduling, supports callback arguments, and validates callbacks. The process shim adds emitWarning and a default export. Path resolution and timer fallbacks use optional browser globals; utility functions update global access, callback scheduling, and exports.
Browser bundler validation test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts	Tests cover fallback default imports, runtime behavior without Node globals, tick ordering and callback handling, utility and timer functions, integration behavior, and ESM/CommonJS interoperability.

Possibly related issues

• oven-sh/bun#39728 — This change adds named exports for console and a default export for domain, but the reported console.context, console.createTask, and domain.Domain gaps are not shown as addressed.
• oven-sh/bun#40795 — This change updates named exports for the browser console fallback, but does not add the reported createTask export.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#40832 — Its browser resolution changes can affect whether a bundle uses a builtin polyfill, which is the implementation surface updated here.

Suggested reviewers: alii

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fb4e3

No actionable PR-introduced issue remains; the change is mergeable after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check		The active linked issue #19808 concerns callable require("node:assert") exports in built output. Changes to process.js, timers.js, path.js, and util.js fix separate browser-polyfill behavior…	Split the independent polyfill behavior and export changes into separate PRs with active linked issues. Keep in this PR the assert changes and the build-format or test changes needed to resolve #19808.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		The only active directly linked coding target is #19808. assert.js now assigns the assertion implementation to module.exports, and build-fallbacks.ts preserves CommonJS format for sources that s…
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the browser polyfill fixes, including process and Buffer binding, util/process/timers changes, and callable CommonJS exports for assert and events.
Description check		The description explains the problem, the fix, and how the author verified the changes. It does not use the template’s exact headings, but it provides the required information.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The only active directly linked coding target is #19808. assert.js now assigns the assertion implementation to module.exports, and build-fallbacks.ts preserves CommonJS format for sources that set module.exports. The PR report says the #19808 bun build reproduction now prints “Success!”. The added tests also cover CommonJS interoperability for assert. Closed issue #43727 adds no requirement.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The active linked issue #19808 concerns callable require("node:assert") exports in built output. Changes to process.js, timers.js, path.js, and util.js fix separate browser-polyfill behavior. Changes to zlib.js, punycode.js, console.js, os.js, constants.js, domain.js, and events.js add or alter independent exports and CommonJS behavior. The PR description states these goals, but the linked issues do not establish their connection to #19808; closed #43727 does not add scope.

Resolution

Split the independent polyfill behavior and export changes into separate PRs with active linked issues. Keep in this PR the assert changes and the build-format or test changes needed to resolve #19808.

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[robobun]

^{Updated 11:05 PM PT - Nov 10th, 2026}

@robobun, your commit 6141181 is building: #140024

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

[robobun]

Status: stacked on #41524. The base of this PR is its branch (merged here up to 2f477dc). Merge #41524 first.

• Reproduce: bun build --target=browser a file that imports node:stream, node:util, node:assert or node:zlib, then run the bundle with process, Buffer and setImmediate deleted (or load it in a browser). test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts covers it: 46 tests pass, and 16 of them fail with the polyfills of node-fallbacks: bundle the polyfills for the browser target, fix the crypto default export #41524 alone.
• A review of the stacked diff found two regressions against main. b00eb3c fixes both. The packages in a polyfill keep the host's process under Node.js or Bun (a stream piped into process.stdout ended it). No polyfill binding has the name of the global that it calls (a classic <script> lost its setTimeout).
• node-fallbacks: route the stream polyfill's process shim to require('process') and forward nextTick args #35484 and node-fallbacks: fix the util polyfill and lint the polyfills for undeclared names #40072 are closed in favor of this PR. Their fixes and tests are included here.
• zlib.constants came from a comment on this PR. The console and domain names from the same comment are left for a follow-up PR.
• util.types is not part of this PR. node-fallbacks: implement util.types in the util polyfill #43727 implemented it and its author closed it on 2026-11-02 with no merge.
• The CommonJS builds of assert and events overlap bundler: return the module.exports export from require() of an ES module #42092. The body has the details and the cost.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding on the nextTick drain, I checked the new source-based format detection in src/node-fallbacks/build-fallbacks.ts (added in the latest push): the ^module\.exports\s*= regex matches exactly assert.js, events.js and stream.js and no other polyfill source, so it agrees with the commonjs env override in oxlint.json and the build/lint lists can no longer drift.

Extended reasoning...

The latest push replaced the hardcoded CJS file list in build-fallbacks.ts with a regex over the polyfill source; I verified the regex selects the same three files the oxlint.json commonjs override names, and nothing else under src/node-fallbacks matches. The remaining inline finding (nextTick drain retaining callbacks for the length of a synchronous chain) is posted separately.

[claude]

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[Neekoras]

I went looking for missing browser-polyfill exports, found the same four files, and then found this PR, so I am not opening a competing one. Here is what I verified while comparing against Node, in case it is useful before this lands.

I swept every polyfilled module by importing Node's full export list and running bun build --target=browser (v1.4.2). Three gaps survive this PR.

1. zlib.constants is missing, and it fails at runtime rather than at build time. This is the one I would not want to ship without.

The Z_* values are exported individually here, so nothing fails to resolve, but Node reaches them through zlib.constants, which is what callers actually write:

import zlib from "node:zlib";
zlib.constants.Z_SYNC_FLUSH;
// node:         2
// with this PR: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'Z_SYNC_FLUSH')

I ran that against this PR's zlib.js as written. constants is undefined on both the namespace and the default export. browserify-zlib puts the values on the module itself and has no constants object, so it has to be assembled:

export const constants = Object.freeze(
  Object.fromEntries(Object.keys(zlib).filter(key => key.startsWith("Z_")).map(key => [key, zlib[key]])),
);

2. console is missing Console, context and createTask (21 of Node's 25 are here). import { Console } from "node:console" still fails the build after this PR. The first two have no browser equivalent, so throwing the way tty.js already does for ReadStream/WriteStream would keep the directory consistent. createTask only labels async work for the devtools stack trace, so where the browser has none, running the function directly is the whole job.

Separately, these read this, and export const { log } = console hands them over unbound. Chrome and Safari tolerate it today, but binding to the global console costs nothing and removes the question.

3. domain is missing Domain, active and _stack. active is null and _stack is [] in a browser, which is what Node reports before the first enter(). domain-browser exposes no constructor, but domain.create() is documented as equivalent to new Domain(), so function Domain() { return create(); } covers it.

For reference, here is what still does not resolve after this PR, from the sweep:

console   Console context createTask
domain    Domain active _stack
zlib      (resolves, but constants is absent at runtime)

The 17 brotli/zstd names (brotliCompress, ZstdCompress, crc32, ...) are genuinely absent from browserify-zlib, so leaving them out is right.

I have all three written and verified: the four modules build through build-fallbacks, every Node name resolves except those 17, and a runtime comparison against node:console/node:punycode/node:domain/node:zlib on v24.12 matches line for line. I also worked out the browser/NodePolyfills snapshot updates by reading the __export blocks the bundler emits, since key order there is the bundler's, not source order.

Happy to push it as a follow-up once this merges, or to hand you the diff to fold in, whichever you prefer. Just say which.

Disclosure: I used Claude Code for this investigation. Every claim above is one I reproduced and checked myself.

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[claude]

I reviewed the latest push (through fb4e39e) and found no bugs; the util.promisify.custom implementation on the timers polyfill addresses the promisify finding I raised earlier, and browser/NodeTimersPromisify covers the resolve path and both abort paths. Because this is a large change that also moves process.nextTick from timers to microtasks and makes require("events")/require("assert") return the function (dropping .default), a human look at those behavior changes is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• build-fallbacks.ts: the --define rename of free process/Buffer only rewrites unbound references, the import/require prelude is prepended only when the renamed id appears in the output, and the CJS/ESM choice now follows module.exports in the source.
• process.js drainQueue: on a throw the finally re-queues the rest of the batch ahead of later ticks and reschedules, so order holds and only the throwing tick is dropped.
• The updated browser/NodePolyfill snapshot matches the new export shapes in the sources (callable assert/events namespaces, named zlib/punycode/console exports), not a weakened expectation.
• Not run here: bun lint, the fallback build, and the bundler tests; the new test expectations were checked by reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The diff touches 16 files (~977 insertions) in src/node-fallbacks/ plus the build script, oxlint/bunfig config and test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts, reworking the browser polyfills for process, timers, util, path, assert, events, zlib, punycode, console, os, domain and constants. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; the sensitive part is user-facing behavior of bun build --target=browser output. Two new commits since my last review body (5afaca2 and fb4e39e) address the inline promisify finding I posted, which is why a new body is warranted. The change is large and makes deliberate compatibility trade-offs (nextTick scheduling, CJS format for assert/events, bundle size growth) that a maintainer should weigh, and a human comment from 2026-10-21 whose content is not visible cannot be confirmed addressed, so defer rather than approve. No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed paths.

[robobun]

@Neekoras I am sorry for the late answer. I checked your three points on this branch. All three gaps are real.

1. zlib.constants

345c9cd adds it, with you as co-author. Before that commit, a named import of constants failed the build, and the default import and require("zlib") gave undefined.

The object has the 39 Z_* keys of browserify-zlib, as you proposed. It differs from your snippet in two ways:

• The same object is also on the default export, so import zlib from "node:zlib" and require("zlib") agree with the named export.
• It is not frozen. Node.js does not freeze it: Object.isFrozen(require("node:zlib").constants) is false on v26.3.0.

browser/NodeZlibPunycodeConsoleAssertEventsExports now reads constants through a default import, a named import, and a require() in a dependency. I ran the same three forms in headless Chromium 153.

2 and 3. console and domain

Please open the follow-up after this PR merges. Those names add new behavior (a Console that throws, a createTask fallback, a Domain wrapper). That is a separate decision for a maintainer, and this PR is already large. Two facts for that PR:

• Against Node.js v26.3.0, the console polyfill lacks five names: Console, context, createTask, profile and profileEnd.
• Chromium 153 has console.context, console.createTask, console.profile and console.profileEnd as functions. It has no console.Console.

This PR leaves the console methods unbound. console is a Web IDL namespace, and a namespace operation has no receiver check. In Chromium 153 I called each of the 20 exported methods with undefined, null, a plain object and a number as the receiver. None of the 80 calls throws. The timers are different: setTimeout belongs to an interface, and Chromium throws Illegal invocation for a wrong receiver. That is why this PR wraps the timers and not the console methods.

util.types

You closed #43727 on 2026-11-02. This PR still leaves util.types as the stub of main, because #43727 is the better implementation. Do you plan to reopen it? If you prefer, I can add it to this PR with you as co-author. It adds 3.3 KB (minified) to each bundle that contains the util polyfill, so a maintainer may want it as a separate PR.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the full diff after the latest pushes (fb4e39e, 345c9cd) and found no bugs; the util.promisify(setTimeout) gap raised earlier is now closed by the promisify.custom implementations in timers.js and the NodeTimersPromisify test. Because this is a 16-commit rework of the polyfill build pipeline plus a user-visible change to process.nextTick scheduling (timer to microtask), a maintainer look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• build-fallbacks.ts: the --define=process:__bun_process / Buffer renames coexist with the longer process.env.* defines, and the import/require prepend runs after the import{ stripping loop so the injected binding is kept; the cjs/esm choice now derives from the source.
• process.js drainQueue: a throw re-queues only batch.slice(i + 1) and reschedules, mid-drain ticks run in the same pass, and no re-entrant drain is possible since scheduleDrain only fires while draining is false; timers.js promiseTimer handles an already-aborted signal before id is set and removes the abort listener on resolve.
• zlib.constants is derived from browserify-zlib's own Z_* keys and asserted by value in the test; the oxlint no-undef override is scoped to src/node-fallbacks/*.js and bun lint honours .gitignore, so out/ and node_modules stay excluded.
• Not run here: the test suite (including the claim that the eleven new tests fail on the base build) and bun lint.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the browser polyfill build script (src/node-fallbacks/build-fallbacks.ts), ten polyfill sources (process, timers, util, zlib, assert, events, punycode, console, os, domain, path, constants), the lint config, and adds about 400 lines of bundler tests; it touches no auth, crypto, or data-exposure surface. Since the prior inline findings, two commits added promisify.custom to the timers polyfill with abort support and a zlib.constants object, both covered by new tests, and the red finding is addressed in code. The bug hunt ran dry with no findings and no CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths, but the size (+983/-132 across 16 commits), the rewritten nextTick drain, and the define-based global rebinding in the build pipeline are design-level changes a maintainer should weigh, so this is a defer rather than an approve.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the new Hmac = createHmac alias in src/node-fallbacks/crypto.js — the base already re-exported crypto-browserify's Hmac, which is the same create-hmac factory function, so this is parity with the previous polyfill rather than a new divergence from Node. I did not run the bundler tests or bun lint; the above is from reading the diff.

Extended reasoning...

This revision reworks the browser-target node:* polyfills and their build script, touching process.nextTick scheduling, crypto randomFill/randomBytes/createHmac/timingSafeEqual wrappers, timers promisify hooks, util/path globals, and CJS interop of assert/events, with new tests in test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts. The crypto surface is user-visible but delegates to WebCrypto and crypto-browserify; no auth or data-exposure paths are involved. Two nit-level inline findings (emitWarning Error-type handling, SharedArrayBuffer passed to getRandomValues) are posted, and the hunt ended on max_bugs rather than running dry, so approval is not warranted; the one candidate ruled out here is the Hmac alias, which matches the base export.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/node-fallbacks/crypto.js:112 — nit: browser code calling randomFillSync or randomFill on a SharedArrayBuffer (or a view over one) gets a WebCrypto TypeError instead of a filled buffer as in Node. toBytes at src/node-fallbacks/crypto.js:53 deliberately accepts SharedArrayBuffer, but the shared-backed Uint8Array is then handed to crypto.getRandomValues at src/node-fallbacks/crypto.js:112, which Web IDL rejects for shared memory in every browser. Fix: when bytes.buffer is a SharedArrayBuffer, fill a scratch non-shared Uint8Array per 65536-byte chunk and copy it in with set, so both randomFillSync and randomFill (which share bytesToFill) work; Bun itself accepts shared views (src/runtime/webcore/Crypto.rs:19), so the bundler test cannot see this.

  Why this was flagged

  A browser bundle built with --target=browser calls crypto.randomFillSync(new SharedArrayBuffer(32)) or crypto.randomFill(new Uint8Array(sharedBuffer), cb) through the new polyfill at src/node-fallbacks/crypto.js:109-124. toBytes at src/node-fallbacks/crypto.js:53-54 explicitly accepts SharedArrayBuffer and wraps it in a Uint8Array, so validation passes. randomFillSync at src/node-fallbacks/crypto.js:112 then calls crypto.getRandomValues on that shared-backed view. The Web IDL signature of getRandomValues is ArrayBufferView without [AllowShared], so browsers throw a TypeError; Node's randomFillSync fills SharedArrayBuffers via isAnyArrayBuffer. src/runtime/webcore/Crypto.rs:19 says Bun takes shared views "except" from Web IDL, so test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts running under Bun passes while a browser fails. On the base branch randomFillSync came from npm randomfill and was already unusable, so this is a path the new code adds but leaves failing in browsers, not a regression of working behavior.

  Verification: A browser bundle calls randomFillSync/randomFill with a SharedArrayBuffer or a view over one. toBytes at src/node-fallbacks/crypto.js:53-54 accepts value instanceof SharedArrayBuffer; line 112 then calls crypto.getRandomValues on that view, which Web IDL rejects for a shared-backed view with a TypeError, whereas Node fills it. No test in test/bundler/bundler_browser.test.ts covers SharedArrayBuffer.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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Still open from earlier reviews (2):

• Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

[claude]

I reviewed the latest push and didn't find any new bugs; the host-process capability check (versions.node plus a nextTick function) and the renamed escape/unescape bindings in querystring address the points raised last round. Because this is a large change to the browser polyfills and their codegen, with observable semantics changes (nextTick now drains in one microtask, assert and events become CommonJS so unknown named imports fail at run time instead of build time), a human look is still worthwhile, and it is stacked on #41524.

What was reviewed:

• build-fallbacks.ts prelude for __bun_process/__bun_Buffer in both ESM and CJS variants, the format-from-source rule, and the notInABrowser build failure.
• process.js drain loop (batch swap, throw leaves the rest of the batch for the next microtask), timers.js wrappers and promisify.custom with abort handling, util.js deprecate/callbackify/promisify fixes.
• The remaining documented divergence: promisify(globalThis.setTimeout) in util.js takes no { signal }, unlike the timers polyfill.
• Not run: the test suite (bun bd test and the USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 failure check) and the codegen itself; this review was by reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The branch rewrites the browser polyfills in src/node-fallbacks/ (process, timers, util, assert, events, zlib, console, querystring, buffer) and the build-fallbacks.ts codegen that binds free process and Buffer, plus about 700 lines of new bundler tests and a dev server test. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface; the sensitive part is Node compatibility semantics (nextTick timing relative to promise jobs, CJS versus ESM export checks). The latest commits addressed the inline findings from the previous run, and the bug hunt ran dry this round. Deferring rather than approving because the change is large, alters observable behavior for every browser bundle that uses these modules, and depends on a stacked PR merging first.

[claude]

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