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What does this PR do?

Fixes a regression from #44023 (not released). A bun build --splitting bundle can throw at load, because code that an import() target shares with the entry point now runs before the entry point's own imports.

// index.js
import "./setup.js"; // sets globalThis.APP
import { Store } from "./store.js"; // reads it at load
import("./settings.js"); // also imports store.js

store.js goes into a hashed chunk (the "parent" chunk). No chunk may import index.js, so that chunk runs first, and setup.js stayed in index.js.

Results

before = 97246d0, the commit before #44023. main = 37da174.

the entry point imports, in this order	before	main	this PR
setup.js, shared store.js	runs	TypeError	runs
a CommonJS package (react), setup.js, store.js	runs	TypeError	runs
setup.cjs or an external package, reader.js, store.js	reader, store	store, reader	reader, store
only main.js, which imports setup.cjs, reader.js, store.js	reader, store	store, reader	reader, store
two setup files that import each other, store.js	runs	TypeError	runs
polyfill.cjs that another entry point shares, setup.js, store.js	runs	TypeError	runs
shared code that imports a chunk of another entry point	runs	TypeError	runs
shared code sets a global, a later chunk of another entry point reads it	TypeError	runs	runs
entry point with exports: setup.js, store.js	TypeError	TypeError	runs
import() target with exports: setup.js, a shared file	wrong output	wrong output	runs
--compile --splitting: setup.js, store.js	TypeError	TypeError	runs
entry point with exports, and another entry point that also uses a runtime helper: setup.js, store.js	TypeError	TypeError	runs
src/api/index.js: shared code that imports ./local.js, with --external ./src/api/local.js	runs	Cannot find module	runs
the same with --min-chunk-size, and only import("./local.js") in the shared file	runs	Cannot find module	runs
shared registry.js, plugin.js of a chunk that admin.js shares and that reads what registry.js sets, shared listing.js	TypeError	runs	runs
the same, and listing.js reads what plugin.js sets	runs	TypeError	runs
x.cjs, setup.js, shared store.js, config.js; other.js shares x.cjs and config.js, and config.js reads what store.js sets	TypeError	runs	runs
the same, and setup.js reads what x.cjs sets, store.js reads what setup.js sets	runs	TypeError	runs
shared store.js that imports a CommonJS file, then config.js that other.js shares and that reads what store.js sets; other.js imports a CommonJS file too	wrong output	wrong output	runs
declares.js that other.js shares, setup.js that imports it too, shared store.js, then config.js that other.js shares and that reads what store.js sets	TypeError	config, setup	setup, config
the same, and store.js imports declares.js, not setup.js	TypeError	TypeError	runs
63 chunks that other entry points share, then shared a.js, b.js of one more such chunk that reads what a.js sets, shared c.js	TypeError	runs	runs
entry point with exports, --target=browser: import "fs" that the browser field disables, setup.js, store.js	TypeError	TypeError	runs
only f.js, which imports shared store.js, x.cjs, then declares.js; then config.js that reads what store.js sets; other.js shares declares.js and config.js	TypeError	config, f	f, config
only f.js, which imports shared store.js, b.js that other.js shares and that reads what store.js sets, then x.cjs	TypeError	runs	runs
shared setup.js, shared shared.cjs that requires declares.js, then config.js that reads what setup.js sets; other.js shares declares.js and config.js	TypeError	TypeError	runs
shared setup.js, shared shared.cjs that requires withext.js, which other.js shares; withext.js imports an external package that reads what setup.js sets	TypeError	TypeError	runs
--min-chunk-size moves a file that holds import("./x.js") into a chunk of an earlier entry point; e.js imports a.js, b.js, and x.js imports b.js, a.js	TypeError	TypeError	runs

Row 3 threw a TypeError on f59b009, an earlier head of this PR. It is the case in this comment.

The rule

The parent chunk holds the first part of the evaluation order. The entry point's chunk holds the rest.

• The entry point's own files that precede the last file of the parent chunk move into it, with the files that they import. A file that imports its way to that last file moves only when one of its own imports runs something (require_x()). Then it is the last file.
• The entry point's file stays. The parent chunk repeats, in place, what the import statements of that file run: require_x(), init_x(), or a bare import "pkg". The second run of each does nothing.
• What one import statement of the entry point's file loads moves or stays as a whole. A file that imports its way back to the entry point ends the list.
• A relative path of an external module is printed as written, so with the fold it counted from the directory of the entry point's chunk. In the parent chunk it still does: ./local.js prints as ./api/local.js beside api/index.js. --min-chunk-size does not move a file that holds such a path.
• The walk of the entry point lays out the parent chunk, because the entry point loads it before the import() targets that share it.
• A chunk that another entry point shares has one place among the imports. Where it loads between two files of the parent chunk that run, the parent chunk is cut in two chunks, one on each side. Such a chunk cuts once, so there is at most one more piece than there are such chunks. The walk tells 61 such chunks apart. A chunk past that number cuts each time that it loads between two such files, so the order stays right and there are some more chunks.
• An import from a chunk loads all of it. When the parent chunk needs require_x, a runtime helper or a declaration from a chunk that another entry point shares, and that chunk holds a file that runs later, the files that the parent chunk needs go into a chunk of their own. They run nothing when they load. This holds for each file of the parent chunk, wherever it is in the order.
• Files that only declare functions, classes and literals do not count, and neither do JSON, YAML, text and file imports. Syntax decides this, not sideEffects or @__PURE__. A wrapped file of the parent chunk does count when an external import below it loads with its chunk.

The reference order depends on why the chunk takes no fold:

entry point	before #44023	this PR
no [hash] in its name (the default)	took the fold	keeps the order of the fold, or the source order where the parent chunk is cut
exports, --compile, CommonJS	same layout as main	the parent chunk keeps its rank and gains no import

For the second kind, an external import ends the list, and a file that holds a relative external path does not move. Nothing moves when the entry point loads a file that it shares with an unrelated entry point. The runtime and an unwrapped file that only declares are exceptions: they run nothing.

Random graphs

Modules are ESM, CommonJS, external or declaration-only, with cycles, 1 to 3 entry points and 1 to 3 import() targets. Node runs the unbundled program as the reference. A "wrong pair" is two modules that run in the other order. The script is not in the repo.

graphs	wrong pairs: before	main	this PR	worse than before	worse than main	fixed since main
900, default mix	1332	1448	1236	0	6	218
900, every entry point has exports, more externals	1675	1675	1564	0	0	111
700, every entry point has exports, more CommonJS and cycles	790	790	643	0	0	147
800, with CSS-only files, JSON and "sideEffects": false packages	499	543	457	0	1	87
800, the same with --min-chunk-size	381	426	352	0	0	74

At c680fd0, not at the head. The later commits change what --min-chunk-size does with the parent chunk, which walk lays it out, which shared files stop a move beside an entry point with exports, how a relative external path prints, and where chunks are cut. Tests hold these cases; the graphs were not run again. So the column "worse than main" is out of date: those pairs are the shape that the cut repairs. No build fails and no import reads undefined, on any of the three builds. On a335c97, 600 graphs of the last two kinds crashed the build for 11 entry point runs. The pairs in "worse than main" have the order of before; see "Not fixed".

Behavior changes

• import.meta.url and import.meta.dir in a file that moves name the parent chunk. The docs say so.
• The parent chunk can hold require_x();, init_x(); or import "pkg"; under a // index.js comment.
• With two or more user entry points, an entry point can have more than one parent chunk, and the code that two of them share can be in two chunks: the files that run nothing when they load, and the rest.
• A relative external path in the parent chunk has the directory of the entry point's chunk in front (./api/local.js). The metafile keeps the path as written.

Not fixed

An import runs before the code of its chunk. With the default naming, this row equals before.

shape	source order	before	main	this PR
shared env.js, external ext, shared later.js	env, ext, later	ext, env, later	env, later, ext	ext, env, later

A cut at each external import would give one chunk for each file with --packages external.

Same on all three builds:

• Shared a.js and g.js import each other, and g.js imports plugin.js of another entry point between them: plugin.js runs first. A cut would make the two pieces import each other.
• The parent chunk of an entry point with exports, with --compile or in CommonJS is not cut: shared first.js, plugin.js of another entry point, shared listing.js that reads what plugin.js sets.
• An entry point with [hash] in its name, or that an HTML file loads, takes the fold: shared registry.js, then plugin.js of another entry point that reads what it sets.
• A file that imports its way back to the entry point, then shared code: the shared code runs first.
• The entry point's file has a top-level await, of an import() or of something else: nothing moves, so shared store.js runs before setup.js.
• Two user entry points share a chunk, and one imports a private side-effect file first.
• An entry point with exports and an unrelated entry point import the same wrapped module, for example a CommonJS package: nothing moves, so store.js runs before setup.js.

Cost

Release builds of a2bfbe4 (main) and of this branch merged with it.

project	build time on main	new code, timed in the process
a real CLI, 321 chunks	333 ms	0.02 ms
synthetic: 7053 files, one entry point, 5000 files move	150 ms	1.5 ms
synthetic: 7502 files, 1602 chunks, 400 import() targets that each have 2 more	275 ms	2.5 ms

• The new walk visits an entry point's own files and the files of its parent chunk, once for each pinned entry point that precedes an import() target.
• The three rows are from before the cuts (52e1db8, 492133c). They have one user entry point, so the cut adds no work there. With more user entry points, the cut also visits each file that two of them share, once in total. Debug build, 30 user entry points that share 4000 files (5290 files): 18 ms of 1900 ms when the shared files run, and 21 ms of 1950 ms when they only declare. The first project gets 30 more chunks (151, one for each entry point), the second gets 1 more (122). There is no release measurement of this.
• Whole-build A/B (alternating runs on a loaded machine): the real CLI is within -2% to +1% in 2 rounds. The two synthetic projects swing between -2% and +11% by median and between -1% and +4% by minimum in 4 rounds, so a difference under about 3% is not resolved.
• In the second row main has two large chunks and this PR has one, like the fold.
• Output size of the real CLI: +492 bytes of 41.8 MB (at 77a6e63).

How did you verify your code works?

• 55 new test blocks in bundler_splitting.test.ts, 2 in bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts. They hold each example from the reviews.
• 60 tests of bundler_splitting.test.ts fail on main. The other new tests pass on main on purpose: they hold cases that earlier heads of this PR broke.
• Debug build, at c79630e: bundler_splitting (262 tests), esbuild/splitting (26 tests), bundler_naming (27 tests), test/internal/source-lints (170 tests) and the 2 new tests of bundler_compile_splitting pass.
• For the two cuts: 13 more small programs (not in the repo) give the same output as Node.
• Debug build, at c680fd0: bundler_splitting, esbuild/splitting, bundler_dynamic_import_dce, bundler_cjs2esm, bundler_cjs, metafile, esbuild/metafile, bundler_edgecase, bundler_html, html-import-manifest, bundler_regressions, css/css-modules, esbuild/css and test/internal/source-lints pass (1286 tests).
• CI at a335c97 (build 121792): 181 of 182 jobs pass. The other one is test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts on x64-asan, which fails on many other PRs too. No bundler test is in a failure or flaky list.
• CI at 5a4cfd1 (build 121901) passes. CI at ec43177 (build 121925) has that same one failure, and again no bundler test in a failure or flaky list. Neither build has the commits after the merge.
• CI at 492133c (build 122020, the first with the two cuts): 178 of the 179 jobs that ran pass, on Linux, Windows and macOS aarch64. The 2 macOS x64 test jobs had no agent yet. The other job is that same spawn.test.ts shard on x64-asan. There, a child process prints a LeakSanitizer warning (ptrace appears to be blocked) and the test expects an empty stderr. That shard does not run bundler_splitting.test.ts, and spawn.test.ts runs alone in it. The same sub-test fails on 10 builds of other PRs from the same day.
• CI at eb445be (build 122054) passes: all 181 jobs, on Linux, Windows and macOS. mordant, cargo clippy, Format, Lint JavaScript and Source lints pass there too.
• CI at a4c0cec (build 122157): the same lints pass. 180 of 181 jobs pass, on Linux, Windows and macOS. The other job is that same spawn.test.ts shard, and no bundler test is in a failure or flaky list. All 4 attempts fail only in the run of the file with BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_FORCE_WAITER_THREAD=1, and only in the two sub-tests that kill a child in the exit handler. In that mode the SIGCHLD handler has no SA_RESTART (src/spawn/process.rs), and LeakSanitizer's TestPTrace() reads a status that waitpid did not write when the call fails. So the probable cause is an EINTR there. This PR does not touch that code.
• The real CLI gives the same --version and --help output as with main (at 77a6e63).

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The linker moves eligible entry-owned files beside an entry while preserving evaluation order. It tracks those files and orders reached chunks accordingly. The browser preload runtime queues calls made before chunk registration. Tests and documentation cover these changes.

Changes

Entry-related chunk splitting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify and fold entry-related groups src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs	The linker identifies entry-owned files that can move beside an entry and applies distinct folding rules to entry, beside-entry, and unpinned groups. It also checks whether files affect evaluation order.
Track moved files and order chunks src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs, src/bundler/ParseTask.rs	The linker tracks files that affect chunk ranking and retains the last reached-chunk position when removing duplicates. The browser runtime queues preload IDs received before chunk registration and replays them after registration.
Verify and describe splitting behavior test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_compile_splitting.test.ts, docs/bundler/index.mdx, src/bundler/linker_context/README.md	Tests cover evaluation order, entry ownership, import cycles, multiple entries, browser preloads, and compiled output. The documentation describes when entry-only modules move into a shared chunk and how chunk folding preserves order.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f59b0

This change fixes the import-order regression for common setup-file layouts. However, some multi-entry layouts can still run shared code before the setup file it depends on, which causes load-time errors. Resolve or explicitly accept this before merging.

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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked whether the new post-loop expect("an entry point's class has its chunk") in mergeSmallChunks.rs is reachable from user input: it is not, because Pin::BesideEntry requires the entry file to be live JS, and the class loop just above the fold inserts a group under that exact entry key whenever none exists. I also confirmed the --min-chunk-size candidate/target filters still exclude both pinned states via pin != Pin::None.

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The change swaps the boolean pinned on chunk groups for a three-state Pin enum in the bundler's code-splitting merge pass, moving an entry point's private files into the class parent chunk when the entry chunk itself is pinned, plus a new entry_file_imported bitset guard, docs, and five splitting tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Multiple verified inline findings (multi-entry ordering regression, missing --compile/CJS-wrapped test coverage, modulepreload and import.meta.dir consequences) mean a human should weigh the design; this note only records the panic-reachability and min-chunk-size checks that were ruled out.

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The repro in the description is fixed, and --compile, --min-chunk-size and wrapped modules look right. Four ordering cases inline. I ran each with the linux-x64 CI builds of 97246d0 (before #44023), 37da174 (base), the earlier heads of this PR and 8d0b63c.

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parent_runs reuses the tree-shaking verdict ("can be dropped if unused") as "doesn't care when it loads". Code like that can still read state that setup.js writes. The entry point's files then stay where they are, and the bug this PR fixes comes back.

// index.js
import "./setup.js";
import { hasX } from "./feature.js";
console.log("index", hasX);
import("./settings.js");
// setup.js
globalThis.X = function () {};
// feature.js
export const hasX = typeof X !== "undefined";
// settings.js
import { hasX } from "./feature.js";
console.log("settings", hasX);

bun build index.js --splitting --outdir out && bun out/index.js

build	output
97246d0 (before #44023)	index true, settings true
37da174 (base)	index false, settings false
b3c152f	index true, settings true
8d0b63c	index false, settings false

This one is silent, and it is the polyfill + feature detection case. Two more with the same four-build pattern, where setup.js is globalThis.APP = { name: "app" } and the wrong builds throw TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'globalThis.APP.name'):

// shared file, variant 1
function createStore() { return { name: globalThis.APP.name }; }
export const store = /* @__PURE__ */ createStore();

// shared file, variant 2: in a package with "sideEffects": false
export const name = globalThis.APP.name;

Either drop the check, or only skip the move when the parent holds nothing but function and class declarations, without trusting sideEffects: false or @__PURE__.

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Right, that check brought the bug back. Fixed in 807fb5c. parent_runs is gone. "Only declares" is now decided by syntax (part_only_declares, on top of can_be_moved): function and class declarations, and const/let/var with a function, class or literal value. It does not read sideEffects or @__PURE__. All three examples print the output of 97246d0. Tests: splitting/EntrySetupImportRunsBeforeSharedCodeThatCanBeDropped/{Typeof,PureCall,NoSideEffectsPackage}.

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The parent goes last only if the walk leaves a file that moved. With no such file, the parent keeps its walk position, and a file in it can run before a file it imports.

// a.js (entry)
import { S1 } from "./store1.js";
import { S2 } from "./store2.js";
console.log("a", S1, S2);
import("./lazy.js");
// b.js (entry)
import "./globals.js";
console.log("b", globalThis.G.v);
// globals.js
console.log("globals"); globalThis.G = { v: 1 };
// store1.js
console.log("store1"); export const S1 = 1;
// store2.js
import "./globals.js";
console.log("store2", globalThis.G.v); export const S2 = 2;
// lazy.js
import { S1 } from "./store1.js";
import { S2 } from "./store2.js";
console.log("lazy", S1, S2);

bun build a.js b.js --splitting --outdir out && bun out/a.js

build	output
97246d0 (before #44023)	globals, store1, store2 1, a 1 2, lazy 1 2
37da174 (base)	store1, then TypeError on globalThis.G.v
8d0b63c	store1, then TypeError on globalThis.G.v

a.js imports the parent, then the globals.js chunk. The parent is not an entry chunk, so it gets no side-effect import of that chunk for store2.js.

This comes from #44023, not from this PR, but it is the same problem. Adding import "./side.js" (console.log("side")) to a.js makes it pass on 8d0b63c, because that file moves and marks the parent as last. So the rule works, it just depends on the wrong thing. Marking the parent chunk of a pinned entry point as last, whether or not files moved into it, should cover this (I have not built that). left_entry_chunk would then not need to be per file.

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Done in 807fb5c as you describe. Rule 1 marks the parent of a pinned entry point's class (Group.runs_last), whether or not files moved into it, and every chunk imports it after its other imports. The example prints globals, store1, store2 1, a 1 2, lazy 1 2. Test: splitting/SharedCodeRunsAfterChunkThatItImports.

The bitset is still per file, because reached_chunks_in_order only has chunk_of_file. It now holds the files of the parent, not the files that moved.

[Jarred-Sumner]

One change to this in f59b009. "Always last" broke a case that runs on 37da174: import "./init.js" (shared with an import() target, sets a global), then import "./config.js" (shared with another entry point, reads it). The parent now takes the rank of the last of its files that runs something, not the first. Your example gives parent, globals, parent in the walk, so globals.js still goes first and the output is the same. A chunk that the walk reaches after the last file of the parent comes after it.

[dylan-conway]

Keeping only the files that lead back to the entry point splits its own files across two chunks, and the ones that move now run before the ones that stay.

// index.js
import "./a.js";
import "./b.js";
import { Store } from "./store.js";
export const name = "index";
console.log("index", new Store().name);
import("./lazy.js");
// a.js: imports the entry point back, so it stays
import { name } from "./index.js";
console.log("a"); globalThis.A = { get: () => name };
// b.js: moves
console.log("b", typeof globalThis.A.get);
// store.js
console.log("store");
export class Store { name = "s"; }
// lazy.js
import { Store } from "./store.js";
console.log("lazy", new Store().name);

bun build index.js --splitting --outdir out && bun out/index.js

build	output
97246d0 (before #44023)	store, a, b function, index s, lazy s
37da174 (base)	same
b3c152f	same
8d0b63c	TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'globalThis.A.get')

It is a trade: the same change fixes OnlyFilesThatLeadBackToEntryStayInEntryChunk, which fails on all three of those builds. But this half works in the release and breaks here. A file that the walk reaches after a file that stays would have to stay too.

[Jarred-Sumner]

Fixed in 807fb5c. The files that move are now a prefix of the entry point's own files in evaluation order (files_that_leave_entry_chunk). The first file that leads back to the entry point ends the list, so a later file stays too. The example prints store, a, b function, index s, lazy s. OnlyFilesThatLeadBackToEntryStayInEntryChunk still passes, because there setup.js comes before the files that stay. Test: splitting/EntryFileAfterOneThatStaysAlsoStays.

[dylan-conway]

Calls are queued only while no graph is registered at all. With two entry points on one page the runtime is in a shared chunk, so once the first entry point has called __chunks, an early __preload from the second one is neither queued nor found in a graph.

For e in a, b:

// e.js (entry)
import "./boot-e.js";
import { util } from "./util-e.js";
console.log("e", util);
export const later = [() => import("./route-e.js"), () => import("./other-e.js")];
// boot-e.js
globalThis.dev_e = import("./devtools-e.js");
// util-e.js
console.log("util-e"); export const util = "util-e";
// route-e.js
import { util } from "./util-e.js"; console.log("route", util);
// devtools-e.js
import { dep } from "./dep-e.js"; console.log("devtools-e", dep);
// other-e.js
import { dep } from "./dep-e.js"; console.log("other", dep);
// dep-e.js
export const dep = "dep-e";

bun build a.js b.js --splitting --outdir out --target=browser, then with a document shim that records appended links, await import("./out/a.js") followed by await import("./out/b.js"):

build	links after a.js	links after b.js
37da174 (base)	1	1
8d0b63c	1	0

Only load speed is affected, nothing breaks. Queueing an id that no registered graph knows, instead of checking !__chunkGraphs, would cover it.

[Jarred-Sumner]

Fixed in 807fb5c. __preload queues an id that no registered graph has, and each __chunks call replays the queue. The example gives 1 link after a.js and 1 more after b.js. Test: splitting/ModulePreloadFromChunkThatRunsBeforeSecondEntry.

[claude]

The last 3 reviews of this pull request each found new blocking issues, repeatedly in src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs. Where they share a root cause, one fix may close them together.

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[claude]

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• 🔴 src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs:1416 — Users whose entry imports a module shared with a lazy route before a module shared with another entry can get a load-ti…

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[robobun]

This PR makes one shape throw at load that runs when built by 1.4.2 and by main (37da174). I found it while I tested a follow-up for the import cycle case of this thread.

// index.js
import "./setup.cjs";
import "./reader.js";
import { Store } from "./store.js";
console.log("index", new Store().name);
import("./settings.js");
// setup.cjs
globalThis.APP = { name: "app" };
// reader.js
console.log("reader", globalThis.APP.name);
// store.js
console.log("store");
export class Store { name = "s"; }
// settings.js
import { Store } from "./store.js";
console.log("settings", new Store().name);

bun build --splitting index.js --outdir out, then bun out/index.js. Release builds, 3 builds each:

built by	output
1.4.2	reader app, store, index s, settings s
main 37da174	store, reader app, index s, settings s
f59b009	TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'globalThis.APP.name') in reader.js

Cause: reader.js precedes store.js, so it moves into the parent chunk. The require_setup() call is printed in index.js, which stays in the entry point's chunk. The call now runs after reader.js.

An external module in place of setup.cjs gives the same three results (import "ext-setup" with --external ext-setup). There the import statement stays in the entry point's chunk, after the import of the parent chunk.

The cycle fix that the linked thread proposes has the same problem when a CommonJS or external import comes first, because it moves more files. I did not push it for that reason.

[Jarred-Sumner]

@robobun fix it

The regression from my comment is fixed by 77a6e63. The review findings up to a4c0cec are fixed by a4c0cec and c79630e.
Open at c79630e: the three findings of its review (I reproduced them in their threads), and one shape of my own in #44028 (comment).

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

• 🔴 src/bundler/linker_context/generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs:281 — Entries built into a subdirectory whose file has a relative-path external import ahead of shared code now fail to load:…
• 🔴 src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs:43 — Users whose default-named entry shares a JSON, TOML, YAML, text or file-loader asset with a lazy import() route can get…

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Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• 🔴 src/bundler/linker_context/generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs:281 — Entries built into a subdirectory whose file has a relative-path external import ahead of shared code now fail to load:…

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I merged 8123879 and 5a4cfd1 with four commits that were not pushed yet (d1b3856, c680fd0, d51cad3, 93055ac). Both sides repaired the same three crashes, so one version of each stays:

part	kept from
parent without a chunk, pure = false, the walk that lays out the parent, the dropped record	8123879
which shared files stop a move beside an entry point with exports	5a4cfd1
relative paths of external modules	93055ac, c69a2d9
JSON, YAML, text and file imports only declare	c680fd0
for_each_import_that_runs is compiled once (generic_body_not_generic)	d1b3856

ec43177 repairs the last row too, with an inner function. In d1b3856 the function itself takes &mut dyn FnMut, so the merge keeps that one. The automatic merge of the two did not compile.

My versions of the first two rows failed three of your tests: EntryWithExportsKeepsOrderWithWrappedFileThatImportsExternal/{Direct,BehindDeclarations} and MinChunkSizeKeepsParentChunkInOrderOfItsEntry/SharedFiles. That is why yours stay.

Tests that cover one shape twice are gone. Three tests from your earlier comment stay, because the push has no test for their shapes: SharedFilesThatPrintNothingRepeatNoImport/{NoImportThatRuns,CommonJSOfOtherEntry} and MinChunkSizeKeepsImporterOfChunkThatRepeatsImportOutOfChunkOfOtherEntry.

New in c69a2d9, both found during the merge:

case	97246d0	main	878a702 (the merge)	c69a2d9
--min-chunk-size, and a shared file that only holds import("./local.js") of an external module	runs	Cannot find module	Cannot find module	runs
try { require("./missing.js") } catch, message	./missing.js	./missing.js	./api/missing.js	./missing.js

Item 4 of that comment is fixed in 52e1db8. The chunk beside the entry point is cut where the chunk of the other entry point loads, so both directions run in source order. The smallest shape prints registry, plugin, m 1, store, and its mirror prints the same with store 1. Details are in this thread.

The limit in your reply (both entry points import one CommonJS module) gives the same TypeError on 97246d0, main and 52e1db8. It is in the description under "Same on all three builds".

Beyond the inline findings, two things were checked and ruled out this pass: the discarded put result for the parent chunk's repeated wrapper imports in computeCrossChunkDependencies.rs:100 matches the five pre-existing // OOM-only Result sites in that file, and the entry's imports_only part range making postProcessJSChunk.rs:325-336 set has_tla on the parent chunk under --compile --bytecode only over-marks (async evaluation of a module without await is harmless; the failure mode is under-marking).

Extended reasoning...

The change reworks merge_small_chunks and the JS-order walk for pinned entry points (mergeSmallChunks.rs, findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs, computeCrossChunkDependencies.rs, rel_path in options.rs) with no security-sensitive surface. The hunt stopped at its bug cap with three confirmed load-order findings, so this note only records the two candidates ruled out this run.

🔴 Users whose shared setup modules form an import cycle that loads a chunk another entry shares can get a load-time TypeError that the base build runs. Re-entering an open parent file sets no_cut_from at mergeSmallChunks.rs:1046, so the cut at :1073 is skipped for a shared chunk entered inside that cycle, while ranks_chunk_again still ranks the parent by its last file. The entry chunk then imports the shared chunk before the parent chunk. Fix: keep the cycle in one piece without blocking the cut, e.g. start the no-cut span at the Leave of the file holding the back edge (until its open target leaves) rather than at the re-entry, or rank the parent by its first file whenever a cut was suppressed. [also at: src/bundler/linker_context/mergeSmallChunks.rs:1076 - Users of a default-named --splitting entry can get a load-time TypeError the base avoids when shared setup code sits in an import cycle that loads a chunk of another entry.]

Why this was flagged

Build bun build --splitting index.js admin.js --outdir out with default naming. index.js: import "./db.js"; import "./user.js"; console.log("index"); import("./route.js");. admin.js: import "./config.js";. db.js: globalThis.DB = { name: "db" };. user.js: import "./post.js"; console.log("user");. post.js: import "./user.js"; import "./config.js"; console.log("post");. config.js: console.log("config", globalThis.DB.name);. post's first import re-enters user, which is OPEN, so :1045-1047 sets no_cut_from = 1. Enter(config) then has loads = S's bit, but open < no_cut_from at :1073 is 2 < 1, so no cut: P stays one chunk [db, post, user]. reached_chunks_in_order for the entry chunk (findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs:925-928) pushes P at db, S at config, then P again at post and user; the dedup at :971-977 keeps the last mention, so the entry imports S then P. config.js reads globalThis.DB.name before db.js ran: TypeError. On the base branch (a2bfbe4) P ranks at its first file: the entry imports P then S and prints config db.

Verification: Then Enter(config) takes the Runs::WithOtherEntry arm: loads is nonzero (config runs) and met == 0, segment_runs is true, but open < no_cut_from is 2 < 1 = false (:1073), so no cut is pushed and the parent is left in one segment. config.js evaluates globalThis.DB.name before db.js ran: TypeError.

Reproduced at c79630e. a4c0cec gives the same output.

built by	output
node, not bundled	db, config db, post, user
367d939 (before #44023)	config undefined, db, post, user
main a2bfbe4	db, post, user, config db
a4c0cec and c79630e	config undefined, db, post, user

I added route.js with import "./db.js"; import "./user.js";. config.js prints globalThis.DB?.name.

🔴 Users whose entry-only module has a bare external import after shared code now get that external evaluated before the shared code; main runs them in source order. At mergeSmallChunks.rs:1012 an external import (x is None) makes the own file the last file of the parent, so it moves into the hashed parent chunk, and :1140 repeats an external import of the entry file that follows a running parent file into that chunk. ESM hoists import above the chunk body, so the external runs before the parent files it followed. Fix: for name-pinned entries too, an external import after the first running parent file stays in the entry chunk: end the repeated range there (as limit does at :1139-1145) and count only Some(wrapped) imports at :1012.

Why this was flagged

Build bun build --splitting --external analytics index.js --outdir out with default naming, so pin_entry_chunk at mergeSmallChunks.rs:1490 pins index and cuts_parent is true. reader.js: import "./store.js"; import "analytics"; console.log("reader");. store.js: globalThis.STORE = { id: 1 };. analytics reads globalThis.STORE.id at load. Leave(reader.js): depth 1 <= depth_at_cut, and for_each_import_that_runs (LinkerContext.rs:501-508) yields the analytics record with None, so :1013 sets is_last_of_parent and :1020 sets cut = 1. Neither limit (:1139) nor stuck (:1168-1176) applies since parent_gains_no_import is false, so reader.js is in leaves, becomes Pin::BesideEntry at :1563 and folds into the parent at :1809. The parent chunk prints store.js then reader.js, whose import "analytics" statement is kept and is an ESM import, so analytics evaluates before store.js: TypeError reading id of undefined. On the base branch reader.js stays in the entry chunk, whose cross-chunk prefix import of the parent (postProcessJSChunk.rs:252-284) precedes import "analytics", so store.js runs first.

Verification: normal — regression vs base; triggers in a default-named (hash-less, so pinned) --splitting build when an entry-only side-effectful module imports a shared file and then a side-effectful external package whose load depends on that shared file. LinkerContext.rs:501-508 calls each(part_index, i, None) for a bare external import, so is_last_of_parent = true and mergeSmallChunks.rs:1020 sets cut = 1.

Reproduced at c79630e. a4c0cec gives the same output, so this is older than c79630e.

built by	output
node, not bundled	store, analytics 1, reader
367d939 (before #44023)	analytics undefined, store, reader
main a2bfbe4	store, analytics 1, reader
a4c0cec and c79630e	analytics undefined, store, reader

The build has --external analytics. analytics prints globalThis.STORE?.id.

🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: pre-existing: an own file that the new rule counts as the last file of the parent does not move when its piece has no shared file, so the load-time TypeError this PR targets stays. An own file with a running import makes is_last_of_parent true at mergeSmallChunks.rs:1019-1024 and its segment becomes last_segment; if that segment has only Pin::BesideEntry groups, the rule-1 loop finds no target and :1815-1822 folds them back into the entry chunk, after every chunk the entry imports. Fix: a segment with no Pin::None group needs a chunk of its own for the files that leave the entry chunk (or the cut must not advance the segment without a shared file), so they run between the pieces around them as the walk laid out.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

Build bun build --splitting index.js other1.js other2.js with default naming. index.js: import "./f.js"; import "./s2.js"; import "./store2.js"; import("./route.js"). f.js: import "./store.js"; import "./s1.js"; import y from "./y.cjs"; globalThis.F = 1. store.js and store2.js are shared with route.js; s1.js is shared with other1.js, s2.js with other2.js; store2.js reads globalThis.F.toString(). Leave(store) inside f sets depth_at_cut = 1 and segment_runs; Enter(s1) cuts to segment 1; Leave(f) at mergeSmallChunks.rs:1011-1015 finds the running import of y.cjs, so :1019-1024 sets last_segment = 1; Enter(s2) cuts to segment 2. f and y are in leaves with segment 1, so :1563-1564 and :1597-1605 give them a Pin::BesideEntry group keyed with segment 1. The rule-1 loop at :1745-1761 finds no Pin::None member in segment 1 and continues, then :1815-1822 folds that group into the entry chunk. The entry chunk imports [store], S1, S2, [store2] and runs f afterwards, so store2.js reads globalThis.F while it is undefined and throws TypeError. The base branch also leaves f in the entry chunk and throws the same way.

Verification: pre-existing — the base already throws the same load-time TypeError by the same route. For segment 1 the only member is the BesideEntry group, so mergeSmallChunks.rs:1745-1761 finds no Pin::None parent and :1815-1822 folds that group into the entry chunk, whose imports all evaluate before globalThis.F = 1 in f.js. No test in test/bundler/bundler_splitting.test.ts covers a cut segment with no shared file.

Reproduced. For these files the result is new in c79630e: a4c0cec runs f.js ahead of store2.js, and so does the build before #44023.

built by	output
node, not bundled	store, s1, f, s2, store2 1
367d939 (before #44023)	s1, s2, store, f, store2 1
main a2bfbe4	store, store2 undefined, s1, s2, f
a4c0cec	store, s1, s2, f, store2 1
c79630e	store, s1, s2, store2 undefined, f

store2.js prints globalThis.F?.toString(). At a4c0cec, f.js is in the piece of store2.js. At c79630e, f.js is the last file of the parent, so s2.js cuts after it, and the piece of f.js holds no shared file.

I checked c79630e with programs of my own. One shape is wrong and is not in "Not fixed": an import() target imports the file of the entry point.

// index.js (entry point)
import "./polyfill.js";
console.log("index", globalThis.READY);
import("./lazy.js");

// polyfill.js
globalThis.READY = true;
console.log("polyfill");

// admin.js (entry point)
import "./polyfill.js";

// lazy.js
import "./index.js";

bun build --splitting index.js admin.js --outdir out, then bun out/index.js:

program	node, not bundled	367d939 (before #44023)	main a2bfbe4	c79630e
the example	polyfill, index true	polyfill, index true	index undefined, polyfill	index undefined, polyfill
index.js exports app, and lazy.js imports app from it	polyfill, index true	index undefined, polyfill	index undefined, polyfill	index undefined, polyfill

Row 1 ran before #44023. Row 2 is older.

The cause:

• lazy.js imports index.js, so that file is in a hashed chunk with the entry bits of both. No chunk may import the chunk of the entry point, so that chunk holds no file and only imports the other chunks.
• reached_chunks_in_order starts at the files of the chunk (findAllImportedPartsInJSOrder.rs:903). This chunk has none, so no import gets a rank, and sorted_cross_chunk_imports orders them by chunk index. The chunk with the body of index.js comes first.

I built one repair on c79630e and did not push it to this branch. It is b449674 on robobun/4830f8e3/entry-file-rank, with a test for each row:

• The walk of an entry point's chunk also starts at the file of the entry point.
• The chunk that holds that file takes the rank of that file, because it runs that file last.

Both rows then print the order of node. All 262 tests of bundler_splitting.test.ts pass on a debug build.

The repair does not cut the parent, because files_that_leave_entry_chunk returns at !own(entry_source). So one shape becomes worse than main: a shared a.js ahead of polyfill.js, where polyfill.js reads what a.js sets. Main runs a first. With the repair, polyfill runs first and throws, as it did before #44023.

Which do you want: this commit here, a version that also cuts the parent at the file of the entry point, or a row in "Not fixed"?