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Problem

• Three statements about Bun.build options in packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts do not match the runtime on main 2596ac5d39. The runtime behavior is deliberate.
• sourcemap: the JSDoc says "true and false are aliases for "inline" and "none"". With outdir, true is "linked" (src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs:1092-1100, feat(bundler): Add --sourcemap=linked for //# sourceMappingURL comments #11983). It also says "linked" "Requires outdir to be set", but Bun.build accepts it without.
• banner, footer: "Add a banner to the bundled code". CSS and HTML outputs get neither.

Fix

• sourcemap JSDoc: true is "linked" with outdir and "inline" without. The outdir requirement is removed. Only JavaScript entry points and chunks get a map, and each map is a BuildArtifact with kind: "sourcemap".
• banner, footer JSDoc: both go on every JavaScript entry point and chunk, never on CSS or HTML.
• docs/bundler/index.mdx: the same facts for true, outdir, banner and footer.
• No runtime change. Verified: test/bundler/bun-build-jsdoc.test.ts (new) builds JavaScript, CSS and HTML outputs and checks the JSDoc against them. It fails 3 of 3 on the old JSDoc.

Background

• Bun.build returns outputs, an array of BuildArtifact. Each has a kind such as "entry-point", "chunk", "asset" or "sourcemap".
• A "linked" map is a .map file and a //# sourceMappingURL=<file> comment in the output. "inline" puts a data: URL in that comment. "external" writes the file with no comment.
• The API reference site comes from the JSDoc in bun.d.ts.
• BuildArtifact.sourcemap is left out on purpose. It is wrong when a build has two or more outputs (BuildArtifact.sourcemap points at a CSS asset in single-entry builds #37184, Bun.build: set BuildArtifact.sourcemap from source_map_index, not from the next output #33588).

Notes

Every statement, on 17 build shapes. Shapes: one JS entry, one JS entry with a file asset, two and three JS entries, JS plus a CSS entry, JS that imports CSS, splitting with one and two entries, an HTML entry with and without splitting, CSS only, minify, target: "bun", target: "node" with format: "cjs", a plugin that serves a virtual module, a plugin that rewrites a file in onLoad, and bytecode: true. Each shape ran with and without outdir, and with sourcemap set to "linked", "external", "inline", "none", true, false and not set. None of the shapes uses compile. Results on the debug build of this branch (main 2596ac5d39 plus this PR):

Statement	Holds
"linked": each JavaScript output has a map artifact and a comment with a file URL	60 of 60 outputs
"external": each JavaScript output has a map artifact and no comment	60 of 60 outputs
"inline": each JavaScript output has a data: comment and no map artifact	60 of 60 outputs
CSS, HTML, file asset and bytecode outputs have no map and no comment, in all four modes	104 of 104 outputs
true is "linked" with outdir and "inline" without	34 of 34 builds
false, and no sourcemap option, are "none"	68 of 68 builds
"linked" and "external" give one kind: "sourcemap" artifact for each JavaScript output	85 of 85 builds
Without outdir, the build writes no file	119 of 119 builds
banner and footer are in each JavaScript output	60 of 60 outputs
Neither is in a CSS, HTML, file asset or bytecode output	26 of 26 outputs

The released canary 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9 gives the same counts.

BuildArtifact.sourcemap. An earlier version of this PR said that a map "is also the sourcemap property of the artifact it belongs to". That is false for most builds and the sentence is gone. The runtime sets the property to the next element of outputs (src/runtime/api/js_bundle_completion_task.rs:882-910). With two entries, x.js.sourcemap is the y.js artifact and y.js.sourcemap is x.js.map. In 9 shapes the property was right in 3 (one JS entry, one JS entry with a file asset, CSS only). The "Outputs" section of docs/bundler/index.mdx already states the intended contract, so the runtime has to change to match it. #33588 does that.

compile. The rules for true and for a build without outdir are scoped to a build without compile, and the JSDoc links to the executables page. With compile: true, sourcemap set to true, "linked", "inline" or "external" gives one kind: "sourcemap" artifact, and Bun writes it next to the executable with or without outdir. "external" also changes what the executable holds (has_external_source_map in src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs), so the JSDoc does not say that the other values are "external". A standalone HTML build (compile with target: "browser") inlines the script, with its banner and footer, into the HTML file. This is why the text says "JavaScript entry point and chunk" and not "JavaScript output file".

Other open PRs on the same lines. #41879 rewrites the "linked" and "external" rows of the sourcemap value table in docs/bundler/index.mdx ("Requires --outdir or --outfile"). #41937 adds a paragraph directly below that table. This PR leaves the table and the text below it as they are on main, and puts its two new paragraphs (boolean values, and Bun.build without outdir) above the table. git merge-tree reports no conflict between this branch and either PR.

The test. A JSDoc edit has no effect that a type check or a runtime assertion can see, so the test reads the comment. It does not compare fixed prose. All three tests build the same page with splitting, which gives a JavaScript entry point, a JavaScript chunk, a CSS file and an HTML file. The file is in test/bundler/ because the test runner excludes test/integration/bun-types (.buildkite/ci.ts), so a file there never runs against the built binary. It is not part of bun-build-api.test.ts because bun bd test of that file does not pass on main in my container: two runs gave 90 pass and 1 timeout each, in a different test each time.

• sourcemap: true: it builds with and without outdir and classifies the sourceMappingURL comment of every JavaScript output. The sentences that mention true must name both observed modes and outdir.
• "linked" and "external": it builds without outdir. Each JavaScript output must have a kind: "sourcemap" artifact at <path>.map, and the CSS and HTML outputs must have none. No file may exist at the path of a map artifact (the paths are relative to the cwd), and the source directory must be unchanged. Only the JavaScript outputs of the "linked" build may have a sourceMappingURL comment. The JSDoc must not say that outdir is required, and it must name all three output types.
• banner and footer: both strings must be in the two JavaScript outputs and in neither of the other two. The JSDoc must name all three output types.

If the runtime changes, the runtime half of each test fails first.

Other checks. bunx prettier@3.9.9 --check passes on the three changed files. The new test also passes with the settings of the ASAN lane (detect_leaks=1, BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1, BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1). bun test test/integration/bun-types/bun-types.test.ts gives 29 pass and 1 fail in my container. The failing test is "promises nothing that a schema of the bindgen breaks". There, src/codegen/bindgen.ts stops with "the engine's folder Source/JavaScriptCore/aot, which has the generators, is in none of: ..." before it reads a type. It fails the same way with the bun.d.ts of main.

Other findings from the same report. #38247 covers the "napi" loader name and needs a rebase. #35309 rejected define values that are not JSON, and it was closed as stale.

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^{Updated 10:05 PM PT - Nov 9th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 4a4e7e8 has 1 failures in Build #139577 (All Failures):

• test/aot/heap-limit.test.ts - pid 5675 segmentation fault on 🐧 3.23 aarch64

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Status: docs, types and one test. No runtime change. Ready for review.

CI on 4a4e7e8ecd (build 139577, finished): 183 jobs passed, 1 failed and 4 expired. The failed job is alpine 3.23 aarch64 - test-bun, on test/aot/heap-limit.test.ts (segmentation fault). The 4 expired jobs are darwin x64 - test-bun shards that no agent picked up in 5 hours. This PR does not touch that test or the code it runs, and the same test failed the same way on build 139457 on another lane. The new test test/bundler/bun-build-jsdoc.test.ts passed (3 pass, 0 fail) in the job logs of debian 13 x64, debian 13 x64-asan, alpine 3.23 aarch64, darwin aarch64, windows 2019 x64 and windows 11 aarch64.

The text of the docs page and of bun.d.ts is the same as at 86ac786492. On that head (build 139467) 183 jobs passed and 1 failed, also on an AOT test. The last push merged main and added one assertion to the test.

Reproduced on main 2596ac5d39 (debug build) and on 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9:

// empty dir: a.js = "console.log(DEF)", s.css = "a{color:red}"
await Bun.build({ entrypoints: ["./a.js"], define: { DEF: "1" }, outdir: "o1", sourcemap: true });
// o1 has a.js and a.js.map, a.js ends with //# sourceMappingURL=a.js.map  -> "linked", not "inline"
await Bun.build({ entrypoints: ["./s.css"], outdir: "o2", banner: "/* BANNER */", footer: "/* FOOTER */" });
// o2/s.css has no banner and no footer
(await Bun.build({ entrypoints: ["./a.js"], define: { DEF: "1" }, sourcemap: "linked" })).outputs.map(o => o.kind);
// [ "entry-point", "sourcemap" ]  -> accepted without outdir

Each statement that the PR adds is checked on 17 build shapes (one to three entries, CSS, splitting, HTML, plugins, bytecode). The table is in the PR description.

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Walkthrough

The PR updates Bun.build sourcemap, banner, and footer documentation. It adds integration tests for sourcemap mappings and JavaScript-only banner and footer output.

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Bundler documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sourcemap behavior documentation packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts, docs/bundler/index.mdx, test/integration/bun-types/build-config-jsdoc.test.ts	Documents sourcemap mappings, including the conditional behavior of true, JavaScript-only sourcemaps, and BuildArtifact map outputs when outdir is absent. Integration tests check these mappings and outputs.
Banner and footer output scope packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts, docs/bundler/index.mdx, test/integration/bun-types/build-config-jsdoc.test.ts	Documents and tests that banners and footers apply to JavaScript entry points and chunks, excluding CSS and HTML outputs.

Possibly related issues

• oven-sh/bun#37184: The PR documents map artifacts in outputs, but the issue concerns incorrect BuildArtifact.sourcemap pairing when CSS is present; this runtime defect is not fixed.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#41879: Both PRs address documentation for sourcemap modes and output destinations, including distinctions between Bun.build and CLI behavior.

Merge Risk: Low · up to d0ddc

This documentation-only change leaves misleading guidance for in-memory sourcemaps, executable builds, and app-mode footers. Correcting those narrow exceptions would improve accuracy; no runtime regression is established.

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760-761: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the remaining outdir requirement from the sourcemap table.

Line 760 says that "linked" requires --outdir. Line 761 also states that "external" maps are always created alongside bundles. Both statements contradict lines 766-768. Without outdir, Bun returns these maps as BuildArtifact objects instead of writing them to disk.

Proposed fix

-| `"linked"`   | A separate `*.js.map` file is created alongside each `*.js` bundle using a `//# sourceMappingURL` comment to link the two. Requires `--outdir` to be set. You can customize the base URL in this comment with `--public-path`.<br/><br/>`js<br/>// <bundled code here><br/><br/>//# sourceMappingURL=bundle.js.map<br/>`                                                                        |
-| `"external"` | A separate `*.js.map` file is created alongside each `*.js` bundle without inserting a `//# sourceMappingURL` comment.<br/><br/>Generated bundles contain a debug id that can be used to associate a bundle with its corresponding sourcemap. This `debugId` is added as a comment at the bottom of the file.<br/><br/>`js<br/>// <generated bundle code><br/><br/>//# debugId=<DEBUG ID><br/>` |
+| `"linked"`   | Generates a separate sourcemap for each output and adds a `//# sourceMappingURL` comment. With `outdir`, Bun writes maps to disk. Without `outdir`, Bun returns them as `BuildArtifact` objects. You can customize the base URL with `--public-path`.<br/><br/>`js<br/>// <bundled code here><br/><br/>//# sourceMappingURL=bundle.js.map<br/>` |
+| `"external"` | Generates a separate sourcemap for each output without inserting a `//# sourceMappingURL` comment. With `outdir`, Bun writes maps to disk. Without `outdir`, Bun returns them as `BuildArtifact` objects.<br/><br/>Generated bundles contain a debug id that can be used to associate a bundle with its corresponding sourcemap. This `debugId` is added as a comment at the bottom of the file.<br/><br/>`js<br/>// <generated bundle code><br/><br/>//# debugId=<DEBUG ID><br/>` |

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In `@docs/bundler/index.mdx` around lines 760 - 761, Update the sourcemap table
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Applied in d27aa85. The "linked" row no longer says "Requires --outdir to be set". That note is now a sentence below the table that names the CLI, so the table reads the same for the Bun.build tab and the CLI tab.

I left the "external" row as it is. "Created alongside each bundle" is also true for an in-memory build: the map is a separate BuildArtifact next to the bundle in outputs, and the paragraph below the table says so.

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- Line 743: Update the shared "linked" sourcemap documentation to clarify that
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