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Fixes #11536

Two decisions need a maintainer first: decisions 0 and 1 in Notes.

Problem

• bun add, bun remove, bun update and bun pm pkg set delete every comment in package.json, with exit 0 and no message.
• Each prints the whole file from its tree with print_json (updatePackageJSONAndInstall.rs:36). The tree has no comments.

Fix

• package_json_text writes the edited tree over the old text. It prints only what an edit changes.
• MapEntry::save is the one save of the install path. The parser reads each new text back. A mismatch prints the whole file and warns.
• Self-reviewed: 42 concerns raised, 25 addressed. 8 are limits or decisions in Notes. 9 wait for decision 0.
• Verified: bun-install-registry.test.ts ("package.json text"), bun-pm-pkg.test.ts, five more CLI files, 22 install suites.

Background

• The editors change tree nodes in place, so a node's position proves nothing. The writer pairs members by key and keeps a token that the parser reads as the tree's value.
• Weighed: comments through parser and printer (install: preserve JSONC comments when rewriting package.json #35598: keeps comments only, places them by source position, changes the shared printer), and a document type that logs edits. This design changes no parser stage, printer or editor.

Downsides

• bun pm pkg set runs +11% instructions at 4.9 KB and +27% at 34.7 KB. With comments it runs +44% and +97%, and bun add +12% and +19%.
• An edit no longer re-formats the rest of the file (six assertions change). A trailing comma stays: Node and npm reject that file.
• The release binary grows by 36,864 bytes.

Notes

Decisions for a maintainer

0. The layer (blocking). This PR writes the edited tree over the old text at save time, and the parser reads the result back. The other design on record is install: preserve JSONC comments when rewriting package.json #35598: carry comments through the parser and replay them in the printer. install: preserve JSONC comments when rewriting package.json #35598 is smaller (+478 lines) and cheaper for bun pm pkg set (the self-review measured about +4% instructions on its branch, against +27% here at 34.7 KB). Its parser hunks add 11 to 156 instructions per parse and nothing per byte. It keeps only comments: CRLF, blank lines, spellings and trailing commas are still normalised. It places a comment by source position with one cursor, so after bun add sorts a group the comment is printed at another dependency. It adds about 10% to each print_json and changes the object and array loops of the shared printer. implement bun pm version #20706 once shipped a text splice for bun pm version, and followup for bun pm version #20799 replaced it with the tree print five days later. This writer differs from that splice in two ways: the tree stays the authority for every value, and the parser reads each text back before it is written. If the answer is "use the printer", this PR ends.
1. The default for files without comments (blocking). An edit no longer re-formats what it does not touch. Six existing assertions change (list below). One consequence in Node terms: a file whose only deviation from JSON is a trailing comma stays that way after bun pm pkg set, and Node (ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_CONFIG) and npm (EJSONPARSE) reject it. Main's reprint made that file strict JSON. If the answer is "only files with comments", the writer runs only for those files and every other file is printed as on main.
2. A failed read-back. This PR prints the whole file and warns. The other choice is exit 1.
3. The sort of bun add. It still sorts the dependency group (PackageJSONEditor.rs:1407). A comment above an entry moves with that entry, so a header comment such as // --- UI --- ends above another package. Two comments in bun update removes comments in package.json #11536 ask for no re-sort. That is a separate change.
4. A group that loses its last entry. bun remove still removes the emptied group, with the comments in it. bun pm pkg delete dependencies.x keeps the group and its comments.
5. An entry that moves to another group (bun add -d of a dependency): the comment on its line goes, the comment lines above it stay where they were.
6. A message for comments that an edit removes. A removed entry takes the comment on its line without a message.
7. Other readers. bun fmt and bun fmt --check exit 2 on a package.json with comments (error: Unexpected token). bun info and bun pm diff do not read the name of such a file (cli: read package.json with comments and trailing commas in bun pm trust, bun pm diff, bun info and bun create #45213 fixes both). On main the next bun add made the file strict JSON again. Now the file stays as it is.
8. The docs. docs/pm/cli/update.mdx now says that comments stay, and names the limits. Don't error on comments & trailing commas in package.json #10287, which made Bun read comments in package.json, says "We do not recommend this feature".

What the writer does

• It reads the old text once, token by token, with the scanners of bun_parsers (json::scan, new and additive). It reads no source position of a tree node.
• A member of the tree is the member of the text with the same key (the first with the first when a key is there twice). An item of an array is the item with the same value. An object in an array is the item that says all of it.
• A value stays as written when the parser reads the old token as the value of the tree. So '1.0.0', 1.50, 0x10, "caf\u00e9" and 1e400 stay when no edit touches them.
• A value that changes: only its token is printed.
• A new member: its own line, the indentation of the members beside it, the line ending of the file. The comma goes directly after the value before it, before a comment on that line. A trailing comma stays a trailing comma. In a container with no member, the new member goes directly after the opening bracket.
• A removed member: its line goes, with a comment on that line. Comment lines above it stay, with the blank lines among them. Blank lines directly above it, with no comment line among them, go with it.
• A member that moves takes the lines above it and the comment beside it along.
• A comment between the last member and a closing bracket on the same line is the comment of that member.
• An object or array on one line that gets or loses a member is printed by print_json, without the comments inside it. So is a file on one line that is edited.
• An object or array is printed the same way when the look for one of its names meets a member of another name that has the same hash. Only a file that is built for it has two such names: a number and the string of the eight bytes of its bits, false and a string whose wyhash is 0, two such strings. A bun checkout with its node_modules has 2,178 distinct package.json files with 20,809 objects and arrays: 0 have two names of one hash.
• What follows the root and is not a comment is not written back. The file is then printed whole, as on main. The same holds for a text that the tree was not parsed from.
• An edit drops a byte order mark, as main does. A command that changes nothing keeps it.
• Comma-first layout (, "b": 2 lines): a container that gets or loses a member is written with the comma after each member. A comment line above a member there counts as a line of the member before it, and goes when that member is removed. Containers that do not change keep their layout.

The read-back

• MapEntry::save and package_json_text::print return a text only after the parser has read it to its end and its rows are equal to the tree.
• Strict JSON stays strict JSON: a new text with a comment or a trailing comma is accepted only when the parser rejects the old text as strict JSON.
• On a mismatch the whole file is printed from the tree, as on main, with a warning that names the file and a debug assertion. If the whole-file print does not read back either (a string that is not UTF-8, which the printer writes as \^@ on main too), there is no warning: that is not the writer's bug.
• MapEntry::save writes every edit over the text as the entry was loaded with. A command that changes the tree and changes it back gives the bytes of the file, and unchanged_on_disk is a byte compare again.

Behaviour that changes for files without comments

Six existing assertions change:

• bun-install-registry.test.ts, "package.json indentation": a leading newline, a blank line and an unindented line stay. A trailing comma stays. A closing brace that is indented stays.
• bun-pm-pkg.test.ts: the escape spelling of a member that is not edited stays (\^[, not \^[). 1e400 stays as written when another member is set.
• bun-pm-version.test.ts: 1e400 stays as written.

Also: a bun pm pkg set of the value that is there no longer writes the file.

In this PR because the writer needs it

• bun pm trust and bun create read package.json with comments. The two hunks are byte for byte those of cli: read package.json with comments and trailing commas in bun pm trust, bun pm diff, bun info and bun create #45213 (open), which should merge first. Its tests read the created package.json with .json() at 3 sites (8 cases). After this PR a comment stays in that file, so those assertions must compare text. The two branches merge without a conflict, so nothing warns about it.
• bun update -i saves through MapEntry::save. On main its save keeps a stale tree, and from a workspace member a catalog bump exits 134 (range start index ... out of range). That crash is reported separately, so that its fix does not wait for this PR.

Not in this PR

• bun create leaves a 0-byte package.json when it does not rewrite the template's file. That is reported separately.
• bun pm pack and bun publish print the tarball's package.json with print_json: that copy is strict JSON on purpose.
• The printer writes \^@ for a byte that is not UTF-8 (bun pm pkg set with such a value, on main too).
• Open PRs that touch the same lines: init: never write over a package.json that was not loaded #41807, init: report failed scaffold writes, and do not create an entry stub that shadows a module #41741, init: exit 1 when the nested bun install fails #38474 and Make concurrent bun test and bun install processes safe on shared files #39689 rewrite the write block of bun init. Draft json: require end of input after the root value at every parser entry #45386 removes the check_len argument that two new call sites pass.

Measurements

Measured at bae9fd556b against its merge base c0e1716f17, with release builds of both. The later commits merge main and fix what the reviews found. They add no parse of the file. A changed object or array in which each name is there once makes no new allocator call. One that repeats a name makes 1 more. Instructions are instructions:u from perf_event_open, children included, the minimum of 24 alternating runs. Each project has two local folder packages, so no command needs a registry.

Instructions per command, package.json without comments:

command	693 B	4.9 KB	34.7 KB	47.0 KB	38.7 KB, long strings
bun add	-4.0%	-11.5%	-19.3%	-20.2%	-2.8%
bun remove	-4.0%	-15.5%	-27.9%	-29.0%	-5.7%
bun update	-2.3%	-5.7%	-10.2%	-10.5%	-0.5%
bun pm pkg set	+2.4%	+11.0%	+27.0%	+29.4%	+17.7%
bun install	+0.04%	+0.03%	+0.01%	+0.01%	+0.03%

The same files with comments:

command	772 B	5.5 KB	38.9 KB	52.5 KB
bun add	+3.1%	+12.0%	+19.0%	+19.7%
bun remove	+1.9%	+6.1%	+9.4%	+9.5%
bun update	+2.5%	+11.6%	+18.9%	+19.4%
bun pm pkg set	+10.1%	+44.3%	+96.7%	+102.2%
bun install	+0.03%	+0.01%	+0.01%	+0.00%

• In absolute terms at 34.7 KB: bun pm pkg set 2,162,069 to 2,745,143 instructions, bun add 8,121,745 to 6,551,906. With comments at 38.9 KB: bun pm pkg set 3,128,880 to 6,154,395.
• A file with comments is read once more on its first save, to learn that the old text is not strict JSON. That read is the second item under "wait for decision 0".
• Parsing a large JSON without comments: a 20,494,919-byte package.json, bun pm pkg get name, 428,537,937 to 428,534,006 instructions (minimum of 5, and two runs of one binary differ by about 4,000). json_index.rs, src/js_printer and src/ast have 0 changed lines.

Counts per command, debug builds of the same two commits, with breakpoints:

	bun add	bun remove	bun update	bun pm pkg set	bun install
print_json calls	3 to 0	2 to 0	2 to 0	1 to 0	0 to 0
parses of package.json	4 to 3	3 to 2	4 to 3	1 to 2	1 to 1
parses, file with comments	4 to 4	3 to 3	4 to 4	1 to 3	1 to 1
allocator calls in the save	45 to 38	28 to 28	35 to 25	4 to 11	0 to 0
allocator calls, file with comments	44 to 51	29 to 40	40 to 37	4 to 24	0 to 0

• Arrays in arrays, after the fix: bun pm pkg set x=1 over a file with "deep": [[…]] beside three members takes 169,227,213 instructions at 16 levels, 166,868,328 at 32, 172,602,828 at 64 and 176,531,052 at 128 (debug build, minimum of 5). Before the fix, the fuzz run that found it measured 5,492,825 at 16 levels and 304,943,549,349 at 32 on a release build.
• Names that share a hash (the writer prints such an object or array since a462097d23). Release builds of ff4018ef56 and of a462097d23, instructions for one command, each saved file parsed and compared:

file, command	ff4018ef56	a462097d23
20,000 strings of one hash, bun pm pkg delete keywords[0]	3,241 M, x3.95 for twice the items	34.4 M, x1.95
20,000 "AAAAAAAA" then 20,000 2261634.5098039214, delete keywords[0]	3,430 M, x3.75	273 M, x2.00
20,000 dependency keys of one hash, delete the first	3,253 M, x3.93	50.7 M, x1.97
6,000 names of one hash, reversed by set --json	1,671 M	13.4 M
6,000 numbers replaced by 6,000 strings of their hash	3,704 M	29.8 M
an escaped name of 131,072 bytes before 8,000 names of its hash, delete keywords[0]	72.9 G, the name is decoded 8,001 times	40.3 M, 2 times
the number, then 199,999 strings of its hash, delete keywords[0]	320 G, 9.9 s of CPU time	310 M, 0.07 s

• The same two builds on files with no such names: bun pm pkg delete of one member over 12 shapes of 64 to 4,096 members (distinct and equal strings, numbers, floats, keywords, escaped strings, dependency keys) is -0.90% to -0.02% instructions, with the same bytes saved in all 48. Two runs of one binary differ by -0.04% to +0.18%. Allocator calls in the save of six small files: 5, 5, 6, 6, 35 and 11 in both builds. A breakpoint on the new exit is hit 0 times for 400 distinct names and for 400 equal names, and 1 time for 400 names of one hash.
• 1,000 generated files of 12 objects and arrays each (up to 64 members, a comment on every line, repeated names, other spellings), every one changed by one bun pm pkg set --json command a file: with no two names of one hash, 0 files differ between the two builds. With names of one hash, the value is the same in all 1,000 and the text differs where a container is printed.
• a462097d23 adds 512 bytes to .text. The size of the release binary does not change.
• Syscalls on package.json (strace): bun add 15 to 15, bun remove 15 to 15, bun update 12 to 12, bun install 7 to 7, bun create 12 to 12, bun pm pkg set of a new value 11 to 11. bun pm pkg set of the value that is there: 11 to 8, with no write.
• Size: the release binary grows from 106,911,456 to 106,948,320 bytes (+36,864). .text grows by 31,232 bytes. The writer's symbols are 27,267 bytes and the six json::scan functions 6,069 bytes. All 395 printer symbols have the same size. MapEntry stays at 200 bytes.
• Against main, with both release builds on the same input: 22,388 edits (bun pm pkg set and delete on 1,900 generated strict files, 1,000 generated files with comments and 2,243 real package.json files, and bun add and bun remove on 400 generated projects). 0 outputs that JSON.parse rejects for a strict input, 0 outputs that mean something else than main's, 0 different exit codes, 0 fallbacks.
• In the same run, 787 edits change a generated file with comments. All comments stay in 630 of them, some in 95, none in 62 (1,287 of 1,500 comments). The losses are the limits above: a removed member's own line, and an object or array on one line. On main 0 comments stay.
• 6,082 commands that change nothing: this branch writes the file 0 times. Main writes it 4,882 times (each bun pm pkg set of the value that is there).

Tests

• CLI: bun-install-registry.test.ts "package.json text" (12 cases, 9 fail on main: the other 3 pin that nothing is written when nothing changes). bun-pm-pkg.test.ts "the text of package.json" (66 cases, 65 of one spawn each, 55 of the first 59 fail on bun 1.4.2): 16 of them write every code unit, and 3 save a file with arrays nested 64 deep. 4 are for names of one hash, byte for byte: 2 of them fail on ff4018ef56, where such a container kept its lines. 2 bound the CPU time of a command at 3 s (30 s on a debug or ASAN build), as format.test.ts does: 200,000 members of one name, and of two names of one hash. The second one is 9.9 s on ff4018ef56 and 0.07 s now. One case each in bun-create.test.ts, bun-pm-version.test.ts, init.test.ts, update_interactive_install.test.ts.
• test/internal/source-lints/package-json-print.test.ts lists the files that may still call print_json.
• 22 install suites pass on the debug build, after the merge of main: 4,291 tests. The run used a test timeout of 60 s: on this machine some cases of main need more than 5 s on a debug build.
• src/install/PackageManager/package_json_text_tests.rs: 38 unit tests and one that runs as many seeds as it is asked to. Four are generated: 24,000 texts are edited and read back, and for edits that only add, every comment must still be there. Three are the cost cases: arrays nested 64 deep, 100,000 members of one name, and 100,000 members of two names of one hash. None ended before its fix. CI type-checks this file and does not run it. To run it, the test binary must link the native symbols of bun_sema_standalone. The header of the file says how. A testing binding that lets CI run these cases is the first item under "wait for decision 0".
• A run of 2,000,000 seeds of the generated tests passes on the final code. Three seeds of an earlier run found a real bug (a // comment lost its line break before an emptied container).

Self-review record

42 concerns were raised. 25 are addressed in the code, the tests or this text. 8 are limits or decisions stated above. 9 wait for decision 0, because they are more work on the writer:

• Run the writer's unit tests and the fuzz in CI through a testing binding, and add a property test through the real editors.
• Take "the file has a comment or a trailing comma" from the load parse, so that a file with comments is not read once more per save.
• One table for where the comments of a member are, in place of the scans in lines().
• Name the key that differs in the fallback warning.
• One write helper for the seven writers (only two skip an unchanged write).
• Narrow parse_package_json_utf8_with_opts so that a caller cannot make it strict.
• Kept on purpose: the fast path for numbers of at most nine digits. Without it a file with many numbers pays a parser setup for each.

After the first reviews

• A fuzz run on this PR found a cost fault. Each level of arrays in arrays doubled the work of a save: 32 levels took 25 s. says() read every array twice. It is fixed, with a CLI case at 64 levels.
• A second cost fault of the same kind was found on the way. A container with 100,000 members of one name, or 100,000 equal array items, took 5,000,000,000 steps when it got or lost a member. It is fixed for a name that is there many times.
• The same walk had a third cost, for names that share one hash. It passed the members of the other name, and the taken members behind one that is not taken, again for each entry: 3,241 M instructions for 20,000 such strings with the first one deleted. No report asked for this: it was found while the two fixes above were measured, and only a built file has such names. The walk now ends at the first member of another name, and the printer writes that object or array (a462097d23). A container with no such names is paired as before.
• A first version of that fix paired such a container a second time, by name, and kept its comments. A self-review of it raised 36 concerns. The main ones: a second pairing algorithm for files that nobody has, new tests that passed without the fix, and no cost case that CI runs. The smaller change is what is in the branch, with two cost cases. A maintainer who wants the comments of such a container kept can ask for the pairing by name.
• Cost that is not fixed. An edit deep inside arrays in arrays grows with the square of the depth: 1,151 M instructions at 2,000 levels and 4,590 M at 4,000, where the command must name every level. Many changed values on one long line grow faster than their number: 8,000 values of an object on one line, all changed by one command, are 50.7 M instructions, x2.53 for twice as many. bun create reaches this from a template with its scripts on one line.
• Text that is not right. When one save removes 64 or more items in a row from an array of objects and changes an item behind them, the items behind the gap are written on the lines of other items, with their comments: 125 of 135 kept lines in a file of 200 items. The value is right.
• Names that share a wyhash cost elsewhere in bun too (Security: Fixed-seed non-cryptographic hashes (Wyhash11 / std.hash.Wyhash) are algebraically collidable, enabling trustedDependencies RCE, scoped-registry token leak, and cache poisoning #32741). This PR changes only its own writer.
• A comment between the last member and a closing bracket on the same line went to a new member. It is fixed.
• bun update -i held two &mut Log at a time. It is fixed.
• read() took two bools, which the mordant check reported. It takes an Extent now.
• The code unit test is 16 small cases with no timeout. Each case of "the text of package.json" is one spawn now, so that none is close to the 5 s of a test on a debug build.
• Named above now: the blank lines above a removed member, and the comma-first layout.

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Reproduced on main c0e1716f17 with a package.json that has // and /* */ comments: bun add ./dep, bun remove dep, bun update and bun pm pkg set version=2.0.0 each exit 0 and leave no comment in the file.

test/cli/install/bun-install-registry.test.ts ("package.json text") and test/cli/install/bun-pm-pkg.test.ts ("the text of package.json") fail on main and pass on this branch.

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Bun now edits package.json while preserving unchanged text where possible, including formatting and comments. A shared printer supports JSON and JSONC. Package manager commands and CLI writers use it. Tests cover serialization, command behavior, and unchanged files.

Changes

Package JSON text editing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
JSON parsing and scanning src/parsers/json.rs, src/parsers/json_stage2.rs	JSON parsing now accepts caller-supplied options. New scanners locate JSON values, comments, strings, and scalar tokens for the text editor.
Text-preserving printer src/install/PackageManager.rs, src/install/PackageManager/package_json_text.rs, src/install/PackageManager/package_json_text_tests.rs	The new printer edits existing text, verifies the output against the requested tree, and falls back to whole-file printing when needed. Tests cover JSON and JSONC edits, comments, formatting, and generated inputs.
Install and cache save paths src/install/PackageManager/WorkspacePackageJSONCache.rs, src/install/PackageManager/{add_catalog,add_remove_with_filter,package_json_write_back,updatePackageJSONAndInstall}.rs, src/install/{error,pnpm,yarn_berry}.rs	Cached manifest saves and package manager install or migration paths use the shared save flow. The write-back check now compares cached contents with bytes read from disk.
CLI writers and regression coverage src/runtime/cli/{create_command,init_command,pm_pkg_command,pm_trusted_command,pm_version_command,update_interactive_command}.rs, test/cli/{init,install}/*, test/cli/update_interactive_install.test.ts, test/internal/source-lints/package-json-print.test.ts, docs/pm/cli/{add,update}.mdx	CLI package.json writers use the text printer or cached save path. Tests check text preservation and no-op writes. Documentation describes preservation behavior and its limits; a source lint checks print_json callers.

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Linked Issues check		Issue #11536 requires bun update to preserve comments in package.json. The PR routes the update save path through MapEntry::save and package_json_text::print, which edits the existing text and…
Out of Scope Changes check		The text writer, parser scanning, save-path integration, documentation, and tests support the requested package.json preservation behavior. Integrations for bun add, bun remove, bun pm pkg set, …

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Issue #11536 requires bun update to preserve comments in package.json. The PR routes the update save path through MapEntry::save and package_json_text::print, which edits the existing text and reads the result back. The reported update tests verify a dependency update with comments and formatting. The implementation also covers the bun add behavior named in the issue.

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The text writer, parser scanning, save-path integration, documentation, and tests support the requested package.json preservation behavior. Integrations for bun add, bun remove, bun pm pkg set, bun init, bun create, bun pm trust, and bun pm version use the same writer for package.json edits. The evidence does not demonstrate an unrelated change.

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Review comments at @src/install/PackageManager/package_json_text_tests.rs:
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Review comments at @test/cli/install/bun-pm-pkg.test.ts:
- Line 1726: Replace the `"d".repeat(...)` padding in the `packageJson`
construction with a `Buffer.alloc(count, "d").toString()` conversion, preserving
the existing count calculation and resulting test string.
- Line 1537: Remove the explicit 30_000 timeout argument from the code-unit
stress test, leaving its test callback and default timeout behavior unchanged.

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• docs/pm/cli/add.mdx
• docs/pm/cli/update.mdx
• src/install/PackageManager.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/WorkspacePackageJSONCache.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/add_catalog.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/add_remove_with_filter.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/package_json_text.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/package_json_text_tests.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/package_json_write_back.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/updatePackageJSONAndInstall.rs
• src/install/error.rs
• src/install/pnpm.rs
• src/install/yarn_berry.rs
• src/parsers/json.rs
• src/parsers/json_stage2.rs
• src/runtime/cli/create_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/init_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/pm_pkg_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/pm_trusted_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/pm_version_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/update_interactive_command.rs
• test/cli/init/init.test.ts
• test/cli/install/bun-create.test.ts
• test/cli/install/bun-install-registry.test.ts
• test/cli/install/bun-pm-pkg.test.ts
• test/cli/install/bun-pm-version.test.ts
• test/cli/update_interactive_install.test.ts
• test/internal/source-lints/package-json-print.test.ts

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things and ruled them out: the writer's recursion over nested objects and arrays in package_json_text.rs is bounded by StackCheck at every recursive entry (is_value, document/value paths) and surfaces as a StackOverflow printer error rather than a crash; and the switch of unchanged_on_disk to a raw byte compare is consistent with MapEntry::save writing over the originally loaded text, so a no-op edit reproduces the on-disk bytes.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces whole-file reprinting of package.json with a ~1200-line text-preserving writer plus new byte scanners in the JSON parser, rewires every install and CLI save site through MapEntry::save, and touches no security-sensitive surface. Inline findings already cover the aliasing of the CLI Log in update_interactive_command.rs and the block-comment placement bug; the design decisions the PR itself flags for a maintainer and the size of the change mean a human should review.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[claude]

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

[claude]

🟡 (optional) Users who run bun create from a local-folder template on Windows whose package.json is a 0-byte file get a project whose package.json is a lone newline, which bun install then rejects; the base wrote {}. In write at package_json_text.rs:65-71 an empty old is re-read, and the parser turns empty text into an empty object (json.rs:458-470), so an unchanged {} tree returns the empty text as "its own text" instead of being printed. Fix: never return old as the unchanged text when it is empty (or when the parser only accepted it by the empty-file special case); print the tree with print_new_file so every caller that starts from no text gets real JSON, which covers print, print_and_read and MapEntry::save alike.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: bun create <npm-or-github-template> where the template's package.json has zero bytes. The tarball path at src/runtime/cli/create_command.rs:593-598 takes plucker.contents without a size check. parse_package_json_utf8_with_opts returns empty_object_expr() for empty contents (src/parsers/json.rs:522-527); bun create only removes bun-create and rewrites name, so the tree stays {}. package_json_text::print(b"package.json", b"", expr, ..) (create_command.rs:1014-1018) runs write: line 65-71 parses same = old.to_vec() with read, and parse_to_rows special-cases empty text into an ObjectJSON with 0 rows (json.rs:458-470); is_tree compares 0 rows to 0 properties and returns true, so write returns the empty text. create_command.rs:1029-1031 appends line_break(&written) and writes "\n". On the base branch print_json printed {}\n. A later bun install in the new project errors on whitespace-only input (json.rs:193), so the user gets "failed to parse". The read-back safeguard does not help: the empty text does read back as the {} tree, which is exactly what makes it pass.

Verification: Trigger: bun create ./local-template on Windows where the template's package.json is 0 bytes. At package_json_text.rs:65-71, parse_to_rows returns an empty ObjectJSON for empty contents (json.rs:458-470), so write returns the empty bytes. bun create appends a line break at src/runtime/cli/create_command.rs:1029-1031 and writes "\n"; bun install fails with "Unexpected end of file". The base printed {}\n.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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• Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.