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Two maintainer questions are open.

Problem

  • @tailwind base; @import "./local.css"; .k{color:red} bundles to .l{color:#00f}@tailwind base;@import "./local.css";.k{color:red}. The bundler inlines the file and keeps the rule. A second bundle fails: error: @import rules must come before any other rules except @charset and @layer.
  • prepare_css_asts_for_chunk_impl (src/bundler/linker_context/prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs:369) strips @import only from the start of the rule list. Since 1.4.0 it also copies the rest for each chunk.
  • No user reported this (found during css: keep a url() in an at-rule prelude as written, and never print the resolved path of a url() #45604).

Fix

  • The bundler parse puts each @import in the new StyleSheet.imports, and drops the @layer statements before the first one, which css: print @layer statements before @import and keep the layers of duplicate imports #47797 prints.
  • The walk reads that list by each rule's own import record. The strip and its copy are deleted.
  • The walk's cycle list no longer keeps a file with no stylesheet.
  • Verified: test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts (22 new, 20 fail on main), test/bake/dev/css.test.ts (2 new, both fail). Self-reviewed: 19 concerns raised, 17 addressed, 2 are the questions.

Background

  • An unknown at-rule statement (@tailwind base;) is not a valid rule, so a later @import is valid (css-cascade-5).
  • Question 1: keep inlining it? esbuild 0.21.5 calls it invalid: it warns, keeps the rule and loads nothing.
  • Question 2: parser (this PR) or linker, as in esbuild? A linker filter (+22/-82) prints the same. It keeps the copy: 585 MiB against 126 MiB (150 entry points, one shared sheet).

Downsides

  • An @import of a non-stylesheet after an unknown statement is now dropped too.
  • StyleSheet grows from 520 to 544 bytes. An importing file gets one 576-byte allocation. Release .text grows by 768 bytes.
Notes

Question 1: inline the file, or leave the rule as written?

  • css-cascade-5 makes an @import invalid only after another valid rule, and @tailwind base; is not a valid rule. Bun's parser takes the import: an unknown at-rule statement does not change TopLevelState (TopLevelRuleParser::rule_without_block). The bundler has inlined the file since Integrate CSS with bundler #14281 (1.1.30). 1.3.13, 1.4.2 and main inline it and also print the rule.
  • esbuild 0.21.5 decided the other way. Any other at-rule ends its import prologue (internal/css_parser/css_parser.go:436-445). It warns All "@import" rules must come first, prints the rule as written and does not resolve the path: @tailwind base; @import "./missing.css"; exits 0.
  • lightningcss 1.33.0 did not decide. Its parser takes the import and its bundler loads the file: @tailwind base; @import "./missing.css"; fails with No such file or directory. But it inlines only a leading run of imports, so the file is not inlined and the rule stays. That is the mismatch this PR removes from Bun, with another symptom.
  • This PR keeps what main does and stops the second print. With the answer of esbuild, the change is one test in the Import arm of the parser (a prototype from the review of this PR is +15/-9), most of the new expectations change, and the partition is then only a refactor.
  • I first asked on css: keep a url() in an at-rule prelude as written, and never print the resolved path of a url() #45604, which is closed: css: keep a url() in an at-rule prelude as written, and never print the resolved path of a url() #45604 (comment)

Question 2: in the parser, or in the linker?

  • esbuild's linker drops each @import rule at any position, and the @layer rules before the first one, for each file that it prints (internal/linker/linker.go:6132-6163, v0.21.5). Its walk reads atImport.ImportRecordIndex (linker.go:3431). The strip of Bun is an unfinished port of that loop. The Zig source had TODO: we are doing simple version rn, only @import.
  • I built a port of that filter on main 3bf1a06: +22/-82 in the two linker files, no parser change. It passes css.test.ts and bake/dev/css.test.ts of this PR. It prints the same bytes as this branch in 1,600 of 1,600 builds of random import graphs.
  • The filter keeps what the strip does for each file that it prints: one scan, and one copy of each kept rule (160 B) for a file that has an @import. This PR does neither.
Release builds main 3bf1a06 the filter on main this PR
.text 110,642,729 B 110,642,473 B 110,643,497 B
size_of::<BundlerStyleSheet>() 520 B 520 B 544 B
Instructions, 200,000 rules, no @import 2,614.3 M 2,615.6 M 2,613.4 M
Instructions, a leading @import and 200,000 rules 2,626.7 M 2,628.2 M 2,613.6 M
Instructions, @tailwind base;, an @import and 200,000 rules 2,614.9 M 2,628.4 M 2,614.0 M
Peak RSS, 150 entry points that share a 20,000-rule sheet with a leading @import 583.9 MiB 584.8 MiB 126.1 MiB
  • What the partition costs over the filter: a parser hook that gets and edits the top-level rule list, 24 bytes for each StyleSheet, and two sheet shapes (a parse_bundler sheet has no CssRule::Import in rules, a StyleSheet::parse sheet has).
  • The copy can also go without the partition. The Zig strip did not copy when it had no @layer statement to keep: it moved the start of the list. A strip that does that again removes the copy for a file whose imports are all at the start. I did not build it.
  • The rule that the partition follows is narrow: the parser keeps out of rules what each chunk uses in the same way (@import, and the @layer statements before the first one). A rule whose place depends on the chunk still needs a step for each printed file. @namespace is such a rule (css bundler: print the @namespace rules of a chunk once, in an order entry after its external @import rules #46232).

Who sees it.

  • No issue has the error text: a search finds 6 results, all pull requests of this account. The strip has removed only leading imports since Integrate CSS with bundler #14281 (2024-10).
  • The input is a stylesheet where a non-standard at-rule statement reaches the CSS parser of Bun before an @import: Tailwind directives in a file that no plugin compiles, or the @import-normalize; line that Create React App documents. The build exits 0 and logs only warn: invalid @ rule encountered.
  • A sample: 1,361 stylesheets from 1,312 GitHub repositories, taken from code search hits for @plugin, @config, @source, @custom-variant, @reference, @import-normalize and @tailwind base. Built alone with --external "*", main prints an @import a second time for 190 of them (172 repositories). This branch prints each one time, and no exit status changes. The sample is not random. A project that runs the Tailwind plugin compiles such a file before Bun parses it.
  • In the repro the leftover rule comes after a style rule. It is not valid there, so a browser ignores it.
  • The leftover rule is valid when only @import rules, @layer statements and unknown at-rules print before it. Then the browser loads it. Three inputs, each with the output of main:
    • @import-normalize; @import url("https://example.com/fonts.css"); .k{color:red} gives @import "https://example.com/fonts.css";@import-normalize;@import "https://example.com/fonts.css";.k{color:red}. The sheet applies two times.
    • @tailwind base; @import "./fonts.css"; .k{color:red}, where fonts.css has only an external @import, gives @import "https://example.com/f.css";@tailwind base;@import "./fonts.css";.k{color:red}. The output directory has no fonts.css.
    • @layer first; @unknown x; @import "https://example.com/e.css"; .k{color:red} gives @layer first;@import "https://example.com/e.css";@unknown x;@import "https://example.com/e.css";.k{color:red} since css: print @layer statements before @import and keep the layers of duplicate imports #47797. 1.4.2 printed @layer first; after the first @import, so its second @import was not valid.
  • Since css: print @layer statements before @import and keep the layers of duplicate imports #47797, @unknown x; @layer a, b; @import "./local.css"; also prints @layer a,b; two times on main.

The copy since 1.4.0. The Zig strip moved the start of the rule list when it had no @layer statement to keep. The Rust port (#30412) copies each kept rule into an arena list, for each import-order entry of a file with a leading @import, in each chunk. The cost is chunks times rules times 160 B. Peak RSS in MiB for N CSS entry points that each import one shared sheet (median of 3 runs, --minify):

Shared sheet N 1.3.13 1.4.2 main the filter this PR
@import, then 20,000 rules 1 74.0 54.6 57.6 57.6 54.3
@import, then 20,000 rules 150 162.3 581.8 583.9 584.8 126.1
@import, then 20,000 rules 300 227.7 1,102.0 1,105.4 1,104.9 187.8
20,000 rules, no @import 150 162.3 123.1 125.7 125.2 125.2
20,000 rules, no @import 300 228.1 184.1 187.3 188.9 187.1
@import, then 2,000 rules 150 38.1 76.1 80.4 80.6 34.0
@import, then 2,000 rules 300 49.7 131.6 136.0 136.7 43.3
2,000 rules, no @import 300 49.4 38.9 43.3 43.6 43.2

CPU (user and system) for the 150 by 20,000 row with an @import: 627, 849, 940, 888 and 631 ms. Nobody reported this either.

Workaround on the released build. Move the @import above the unknown at-rule statement. The released build then prints the same bytes as this PR.

Why the strip goes. The strip is a list of rule kinds that the linker keeps by hand. It must match the state machine of the parser. History: #20546, then #27131, then the regression #28914, then #28915, then #47797. The file goes from 605 to 513 lines and from 14 to 12 unsafe blocks. The ptr::read of the whole sheet header stays, and its copy now also aliases imports.

The cycle list. The review of this PR found a second defect in the same walk. The walk put each file on its cycle list before it looked for the stylesheet of the file. A target with no stylesheet (a text file, or in the dev server a stylesheet that did not parse) returned early and stayed on the list. The importer then removed that entry and stayed on the list itself, so a later @import of the importer was skipped as a cycle. Example: @import "./b.css"; @import "./x.css"; @import "./b.css"; .e{color:red} where b.css is @import "./notes.txt"; .b{color:red}. The released build prints .b{color:red}.x{color:red}.e{color:red}. Without the text import it prints .x{color:red}.b{color:red}.e{color:red}, as esbuild does. The walk now puts a file on the list only after it finds the stylesheet, and both inputs print the second order. Two tests fail when only that line moves back: css/CSSAtImportOrderAfterImportOfTextFile, and a dev server test where the stylesheet that b.css imports does not parse. The second test does not need an @import of a text file. The change is commit ffb4784 and can go in a pull request of its own.

Relation to other PRs. This PR was a draft on the branch of #45604. It is now on main: two commits, a merge of main (da867c6), a merge of main (3bf1a06) and four commits after that merge.

An @import of a file that is not a stylesheet. @import "./notes.txt"; .k{color:red} builds to .k{color:red} with exit 0 and no message, before and after this PR. esbuild fails: Cannot import "notes.txt" into a CSS file. This PR does not add that error, because it fails builds that pass today. css/CSSAtImportOfTextFile and css/CSSAtImportOfTextFileAfterUnknownAtRule pin the current output.

Considered.

  • One more arm (Unknown) in the strip. It is the fourth edit of that list, and it keeps the copy.
  • The filter of esbuild in the strip (Question 2). No list of rule kinds and no parser change. It keeps the copy and scans each rule of each printed file.
  • A count from the parser that tells the strip how many leading rules to skip. StyleSheet keeps its size. The strip and its copy stay, and the count is right only while minify keeps the leading rules one to one.
  • A skip of Import rules in the printer. wrap_rules_with_conditions tests rules.is_empty() to print @layer foo; and not @layer foo{}, so the linker also needs a test for "only imports". The walk still reads each top-level rule.
  • The partition (this PR). The walk reads only the imports, and nothing is scanned or copied for a printed file. It costs 24 bytes for each StyleSheet, one allocation for each importing file, a changed parser hook, and two sheet shapes.

Not in this PR. Each is the same before and after, unless the line says otherwise.

Measured. Main 3bf1a06, the filter on that main, and this branch at 187170b (the later commits change only tests). Instruction counts are user-mode counts from perf_event_open, median of 7 interleaved runs of the release builds. The runs of one row differ by less than 2 M, and by 10 M in the row with 150 entry points. valgrind, strace and bloaty are not installed in the environment.

  • size_of::<BundlerStyleSheet>(): 520 to 544 B. ImportRule 144 B and CssRule 160 B do not change (gdb, debug builds).
  • Vec<ImportRule> allocations for each file (gdb hit counts on RawVec<ImportRule>::grow_one, debug build): 0 with no @import, 1 of 576 B with 1 to 4 imports, 2 with 5 imports, 0 with --no-bundle.
  • Prepare step on main for each print of a 100-rule importer: 1 arena list and 100 rule copies of 160 B. On this branch: 0 and 0 (gdb hit counts at prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs:393 and :416 of main).
  • Walk, loop iterations for each bundle (gdb hit counts): a 1,000-rule file with no @import 1,000 to 0. That file under 3 layer() imports 3,004 to 3. A 100-rule importer of a 100-rule file 201 to 1.
  • Parse: the retain runs 1 time for each importing file, over the rules before its first @import (0 rules when the @import is first, 3 for @layer a; @unknown x; @layer b; @import). It does not run with no @import or with --no-bundle (gdb hit counts).
  • Instructions in rule_without_block for each @import after the first: 177 to 180. For the first @import of a file, with the allocation of its list inside: 1,849 to 1,854 (gdb stepi counts, release builds).
  • Instructions for a whole bundle, main to this branch: 200,000 rules and no @import 2,614.3 to 2,613.4 M. A leading @import 2,626.7 to 2,613.6 M. @layer x, y; then an @import 2,626.6 to 2,613.8 M. @tailwind base; then an @import 2,614.9 to 2,614.0 M. A 20,000-rule importer under 20 layer() imports 1,185.3 to 1,158.7 M, and its peak RSS 137.3 to 76.2 MiB. 150 entry points that share a 20,000-rule sheet with a leading @import 7,489.6 to 7,289.5 M.
  • Release .text: 110,642,729 to 110,643,497 B (size -A). prepare_css_asts_for_chunk 7,209 to 7,020 B. The walk's visit 3,748 to 3,674 B. parse_with 9,143 to 9,303 B. TopLevelRuleParser::rule_without_block 1,631 to 2,376 B (nm -S).
  • Output bytes, main against this branch: 0 of 578 builds differ (289 distinct .css files found in the container, with and without --minify). 0 of 800 builds of 400 random import graphs with no unknown at-rule differ.
  • Random import graphs with unknown at-rule statements before and between the imports (400 graphs, with and without --minify): in 800 of 800 builds this branch prints what main prints when each file has its @layer statements first, then its imports, then those statements. Main prints a local @import again in 580 of the 800, and 262 of its 400 minified outputs do not bundle again. This branch: 0 and 0.
  • The numbers of the first version of this change (main ad4089b, 139 commits back) are in the edit history of this description.

The merge of main at 3bf1a06. #47797 and #47810 changed the same walk and the same prepare step. The conflict was in what the code means, not only in the text: the strip of #47797 reads the place of the Import rule, and this PR has no Import rule in rules. The merge commit keeps the strip deleted. Commit 8398008 removes the pre-import @layer statements in on_import_rule. Two expectations of this PR changed with #47797: in LayerThenUnknown and UnknownThenLayer the @layer a,b; statement now prints first. One comment of #47797 in css.test.ts changed, because it said that the parser rejects this input. No expectation of main changed.

Tests. On the debug build of this branch: test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts (124 pass, 1 todo), test/bake/dev/css.test.ts (20 pass), test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts (5), 20546.test.ts (2), test/bundler/css/ (217 pass), test/bundler/bundler_html.test.ts (29 pass), bundler_html_server.test.ts (4), html-import-manifest.test.ts (10), test/bake/dev/html.test.ts (15 pass), test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts (2018 pass), css-loader.test.ts (26), doesnt_crash.test.ts (61). On the debug build of main 3bf1a06, 20 of the 22 new tests of css.test.ts fail, and so do the 2 new dev server tests. Two new tests pass with and without the fix on purpose: css/CSSAtImportOfTextFile and the --no-bundle test, which pins that the path with no bundler prints each rule in place.


[human-review] gate passed · iteration 4 · 6 files touched

fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 22 failed, 1 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/bake/dev/css.test.ts test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts "test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/bake/dev/css.test.ts:
Dev server testing directory: /tmp/bun-dev-test-Nbk9Rc
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m Started development server: http://localhost:36577
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[32mBundled page in 35ms^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m index.html
^[[0;30mweb|^[[0m [I] [Bun] Hot-module-reloading socket connected, waiting for changes...
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[1m4 | ^[[0m}
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m     ^[[1m^[[39m^[[1m^^[[0m
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[39merror^[[0m^[[2m: ^[[0m^[[1mUnexpected end of input^[[0m
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m     ^[[2mat ^[[0m^[[36m/tmp/bun-dev-test-Nbk9Rc/css1/styles.css^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m^[[33m4^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m^[[33m1^[[0m
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[32mReloaded in 19ms^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m styles.css
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[36m[x2]^[[0m ^[[32mReloaded in 19ms^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m styles.css
(pass)  DEV:css-1: css file with syntax error does not kill old styles [1650.41ms]
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m Started development server: http://localhost:34403
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[1m3 | ^[[0m}}
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m       ^[[1m^[[39m^[[1m^^[[0m
^[[0
... (truncated)

release without fix: 78 failed, 1 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939d9)

test/bake/dev/css.test.ts:
Dev server testing directory: /tmp/bun-dev-test-sOEwBJ
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m Started development server: http://localhost:43993
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[32mBundled page in 4ms^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m index.html
^[[0;30mweb|^[[0m [I] [Bun] Hot-module-reloading socket connected, waiting for changes...
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[39merror^[[0m^[[2m: ^[[0m^[[1mUnexpected end of input^[[0m
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m     ^[[2mat ^[[0m^[[36m/tmp/bun-dev-test-sOEwBJ/css1/styles.css^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m^[[33m4^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m^[[33m1^[[0m

error^[[0;2m:^[[0m expect(received).toEqual(expected)

  [
-   "styles.css:4:1: error: Unexpected end of input",
+   "styles.css:4:1: undefined: undefined",
  ]

- Expected  - 1
+ Received  + 1

    at test (/workspace/bun/test/bake/dev/css.test.ts:21:15)
^[[31mFailed^[[0;2m. Files in /tmp/bun-dev-test-sOEwBJ/css1^[[0m
error: 
^[[K^[[A

^[[K^[[A
(fail)  DEV:css-1: css file with syntax error does not kill old styles [452.72ms]
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m Started development server: http://localhost:39939
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[39merror^[[0m^[[2m: ^[[0m^[[1mUnexpected end of input^[[0m
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m     ^[[2mat ^[[0m^[[36m/tmp/bun-dev-test-sOEwBJ/css2/styles.css^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m^[[
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: 1 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/bake/dev/css.test.ts test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts "test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/bake/dev/css.test.ts:
Dev server testing directory: /tmp/bun-dev-test-GLebcL
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m Started development server: http://localhost:36367
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[32mBundled page in 38ms^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m index.html
^[[0;30mweb|^[[0m [I] [Bun] Hot-module-reloading socket connected, waiting for changes...
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[1m4 | ^[[0m}
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m     ^[[1m^[[39m^[[1m^^[[0m
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[39merror^[[0m^[[2m: ^[[0m^[[1mUnexpected end of input^[[0m
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m     ^[[2mat ^[[0m^[[36m/tmp/bun-dev-test-GLebcL/css1/styles.css^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m^[[33m4^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m^[[33m1^[[0m
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[32mReloaded in 21ms^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m styles.css
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[36m[x2]^[[0m ^[[32mReloaded in 20ms^[[0m^[[2m:^[[0m styles.css
(pass)  DEV:css-1: css file with syntax error does not kill old styles [1628.97ms]
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m Started development server: http://localhost:41609
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m ^[[1m3 | ^[[0m}}
^[[0;30mdev|^[[0m       ^[[1m^[[39m^[[1m^^[[0m
^[[0
... (truncated)

release with fix: 1 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 551ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/1546] build.rs build_script_build
[2/1546] fetch picohttpparser
[picohttpparser] up to date
[3/1546] fetch nodejs (prebuilt)
[nodejs] up to date
[4/1546] fetch zlib
[zlib] up to date
[5/1546] fetch libjpeg-turbo
[libjpeg-turbo] up to date
[6/1546] fetch zstd
[zstd] up to date
[7/1546] fetch brotli
[brotli] up to date
[8/1546] subst deps/zlib/zconf.h
[9/1546] mkdir obj
[10/1546] subst deps/zlib/zlib.h
[11/1546] fetch libdeflate
[libdeflate] up to date
[12/1546] subst deps/libjpeg-turbo/jconfig.h
[13/1546] subst deps/libjpeg-turbo/jconfigint.h
[14/1546] subst deps/libjpeg-turbo/jversion.h
[15/1546] fetch libwebp
[libwebp] up to date
[16/1546] fetch cares
[cares] up to date
[17/1546] fetch lshpack
[lshpack] up to date
[18/1546] fetch highway
[highway] up to date
[19/1546] fetch lsqpack
[lsqpack] up to date
[20/1546] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 119 exports (lazy=4, generic=115, rust=0); 289 extern-C blocks audited
[21/1546] fetch mimalloc
[mimalloc] up to date
[22/1546] fetch ti
... (truncated)
diff hotspot
.../linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs  | 157 ++++----
 .../linker_context/prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs       | 126 +------
 src/css/css_parser.rs                              |  38 +-
 test/bake/dev/css.test.ts                          |  71 ++++
 test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts                   | 404 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts                |  26 +-
 6 files changed, 604 insertions(+), 218 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 4

evidence per changed file
file                                                      reads  edits  tests
…c/bundler/linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs      6      3     75
src/bundler/linker_context/prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs          4      4     75
src/css/css_parser.rs                                        12      8     75
test/bake/dev/css.test.ts                                     2      3     27
test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts                              7      7     62
test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts                           1      1     11

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  • Reproduced on bun 1.3.13, 1.4.2 and on a debug build of main (3bf1a06). @tailwind base; @import "./local.css"; .k{color:red} bundles to .l{color:#00f}@tailwind base;@import "./local.css";.k{color:red}. A second bun build of that output exits 1.
  • With this PR the output is .l{color:#00f}@tailwind base;.k{color:red}, and it bundles again.
  • The PR is on main. It holds a merge of main at 3bf1a06, which has css: print @layer statements before @import and keep the layers of duplicate imports #47797 and css: keep a named sublayer that follows an anonymous layer in a masked import #47810. The strip of css: print @layer statements before @import and keep the layers of duplicate imports #47797 finds the @layer statements before the first @import by the Import rule in rules. This PR has no Import rule there, so commit 8398008 removes those statements in the parser.
  • Two questions are open for a maintainer (see the description).
    • Keep the inlining of an @import that follows an unknown at-rule statement, or call that import invalid as esbuild does? The PR keeps the inlining.
    • Remove these rules in the parser (this PR), or in the linker as esbuild does? A port of the linker filter prints the same bytes and keeps the copy of the rule list.
  • CI: build 137317 for 9d63f4c is red, and this diff is not the cause.
    • The tests of this PR pass on all 11 lanes that run them: test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts (124 pass), test/bake/dev/css.test.ts (20 pass), test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts (5 pass).
    • The 40 red test files are 39 files under test/aot/ and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. They test the ahead-of-time compiler. This diff changes only the CSS parser and the CSS linker.
    • compile-aot-size is 81,598 bytes over its limit on linux-x64. The build reports a size change of +0.0 KB for bun-linux-x64 against main.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 9d63f4c has 40 failures in Build #137317 (All Failures):


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Comment thread src/css/css_parser.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/css/css_parser.rs Resolved
…ntable rule list

The bundler inlined a local @import that follows an unknown at-rule
statement (`@tailwind base;`) and printed the rule again in the
importer. The link step removed @import rules only from the start of
the rule list.

For a sheet that the bundler parses, the parser now puts each @import
rule in StyleSheet.imports and never in the rule list. The import order
walk reads that list and pairs each rule with its own import record.
The link step no longer copies the rule list to remove the imports.
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CSS parsing now stores tracked imports separately from stylesheet rules. Bundler traversal reads indexed imports and processes their records. Chunk AST preparation retains copied source-index rules. Tests cover import ordering and output across bundler entry points and CSS configurations.

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CSS Import Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collect tracked imports
src/css/css_parser.rs
The parser stores handled imports in StyleSheet.imports. Imports that the parser does not handle remain in CssRule::Import.
Traverse imports and prepare chunk ASTs
src/bundler/linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs
Traversal reads indexed imports and resolves their import records. Source-index preparation retains the copied rule list and asserts that it contains no import rules.
Validate import behavior and ordering
test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts, test/bake/dev/css.test.ts, test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts
Tests cover imports after unknown at-rules across entry points and import configurations. Bake tests check emitted CSS ordering. Regression test comments describe shallow-copy behavior.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#47810: Changes CSS import ordering for masked anonymous and named layers using the shared import-order traversal.
  • oven-sh/bun#47317: Changes the ImportRule condition representation used by import traversal.
  • oven-sh/bun#47797: Changes CSS import ordering, @layer handling, and duplicate-import masking through related parser and linker data flow.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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The tests cover import ordering before and during a dependency parse failure. The proposed recovery check is additional coverage, not a demonstrated regression gap; no actionable merge-blocking risk was identified.

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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 memory ownership of the new StyleSheet::imports Vec: the bump-allocated sheet is released once via drop_in_place in deinit_without_freeing_arena (bundle_v2.rs), and the ptr::read aliases in CssChunk::asts are forgotten rather than dropped, so the new global-heap Vec is neither leaked nor double-freed. I also checked the index-out-of-bounds path in the new walk — every ImportRule that lands in imports has passed through on_import_rule returning true, which is the arm that allocates its import record, so import_record_idx is never the u32::MAX default there.

Extended reasoning...

The change moves bundler-parsed @ import rules out of the printable rule list into a new StyleSheet::imports field, rewrites the CSS import-order walk to use each rule's own import_record_idx, and deletes the prefix-strip and its unsafe copy loops in prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed findings are posted inline (a pre-existing visited.pop() skip in the walk and the silent drop of a non-stylesheet @ import after an unknown at-rule), so a human look is warranted regardless; this note only records the ownership and indexing checks that were ruled out.

Comment thread src/css/css_parser.rs Resolved
… not a stylesheet

The import order walk pushed each file on the cycle list before it
looked for the stylesheet of the file. A file with no stylesheet
returned early and stayed on the list. The importer then removed the
wrong entry and stayed on the list itself, so a later @import of the
importer was skipped as a cycle.

The walk now pushes a file only after it finds the stylesheet.

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Merged main (da867c6) into this branch. The PR merges clean again.

  • One conflict, in find_imported_files_in_css_order. Remove 74 unsafe blocks from the css parser, the bundler and the JS parser #47317 replaced the accessor import_rule.conditions() with the field import_rule.conditions, inside the loop that this PR rewrites. The merge keeps this PR's loop over repr.imports and reads the field in both places.
  • On a debug build of da867c6 with this branch and eight other open PRs merged in: test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts (89 pass), test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts (5 pass), test/bake/dev/css.test.ts (19 pass) and test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts (2068 pass).

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Conflicts, all with #47797:

- `find_imported_files_in_css_order`: the loop stays the loop of this
  branch over `repr.imports`. It takes `append_conditions` from main in
  both places.
- `prepare_css_asts_for_chunk_impl`: main edited the strip, so that it
  also drops the `@layer` statements ahead of the first `Import` rule.
  This branch has no strip and no `Import` rule in `rules`, so the strip
  stays deleted. The next commit drops those statements in the parser.
- `css.test.ts`: the import lines.
#47797 moves the names of the `@layer` statements ahead of the first
`@import` into `StyleSheet.layers_pre_import`, and the bundler prints
them ahead of the imported files. Its strip in the linker then dropped
those statements from the file. The strip found them by the first
`Import` rule in `rules`, and it stopped at an unknown at-rule statement:
`@unknown x; @layer a, b; @import "./local.css";` printed `@layer a,b;`
two times.

This branch has no `Import` rule in `rules` and no strip. `on_import_rule`
now gets the rule list. At the first `@import` that gets an import
record, where it moves the names, it also removes the statements.
`visit` puts a file on `visited` after the stylesheet lookup, so the
return for a file with no stylesheet no longer skips the pop.
`css/CSSAtImportOrderAfterImportOfTextFile` reaches the cycle list
defect through an `@import` of a file that is not a stylesheet. The dev
server reaches it with a stylesheet that fails to parse: its importer
stayed on the list, and a later `@import` of that importer was skipped
as a cycle.
The parser takes an `@import` after an unknown at-rule statement, so the
comment above `importPrologueCases` was not true. esbuild calls that
import invalid and keeps the rule. lightningcss 1.33.0 loads the file
and keeps the rule, and its build fails when the file is missing.
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Merged main (3bf1a06) into this branch. The PR merges clean again.

Two questions for a maintainer. cc @alii, because this changes the strip of #47797.

  1. Keep the inlining of an @import that follows an unknown at-rule statement such as @tailwind base;? 1.3.13, 1.4.2 and main inline the file and also print the rule. esbuild calls that import invalid: it warns, keeps the rule and does not load the file. This PR keeps the inlining and stops the second print.
  2. Remove these rules in the parser (this PR), or in the linker as esbuild does? I built a port of esbuild's filter on main: +22/-82 in the two linker files, no parser change, and the same output bytes as this branch. It keeps the copy of the rule list that the strip makes since 1.4.0, for each chunk that prints a file with a leading @import. 150 entry points that share a 20,000-rule sheet peak at 585 MiB with the filter and on main, and at 126 MiB with this branch. The description has the tables.

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Nitpick Assert the stylesheet body in the duplicate-import test.

224-229: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the stylesheet body in the duplicate-import test.

The test css file imported twice keeps the place of its last import when its own import fails to parse checks only the /* file */ marker lines through printedFiles. It does not check the declarations from .b, .x, or .e. A regression that drops those rules but keeps their markers would still pass. Add an assertion on the printed body text.

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Review comment at @test/bake/dev/css.test.ts around lines 224 - 229:
In the duplicate-import test, extend the assertions using printedFiles to also
verify the stylesheet body retains the expected declarations from .b, .x, and
.e, including after c.css fails to parse. Check the printed body text so marker
lines alone cannot satisfy the test.
Nitpick Assert the rebuilt CSS content in expectToBundleAgain.

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Assert the rebuilt CSS content in expectToBundleAgain.

expectToBundleAgain checks only error-level logs and again.success. A second bundle that succeeds with empty or truncated CSS still passes. Read the rebuilt output from again.outputs and assert its content. Do not compare it to out directly, because the rebuild does not set minifyWhitespace.

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

Beyond the inline nit, I also checked the new retain in BundlerAtRuleParser::on_import_rule (src/css/css_parser.rs:794) against the deleted linker strip: it drops only top-level @ layer statements already in rules at the first recorded @ import, which is the same set the old prefix scan dropped whenever layers_pre_import was non-empty, and @ layer statements after that import still stay in rules (the LayersAroundUnknownAndImport case covers it). The shallow ptr::read copy in prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs now also aliases the new StyleSheet::imports Vec, but CssChunk::drop frees the slab with set_len(0) so no element destructor runs on the alias. The remaining readers of CssRule::Import inside rules (the printer in src/css/rules/mod.rs:436) are reached only through StyleSheet::parse, where on_import_rule returns false and the rule still lands in rules; the runtime CSS-module loader in src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs calls parse_bundler but reads only local_scope/composes, so it is unaffected by the partition.

Extended reasoning...

The change moves bundler-parsed @ import rules out of StyleSheet::rules into a new imports Vec, strips pre-import @ layer statements in the parser, rewrites the CSS import-order walk to index import records by import_record_idx, and deletes the per-chunk leading-import strip in prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs; it touches no security-sensitive surface. The newest commits since the last review added the parser-side retain, which I traced against the deleted strip and found equivalent. The PR is a substantive parser/linker refactor with two design questions the author explicitly leaves open for maintainers, so a human decision is still needed regardless of the single nit finding.

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Answer to the two follow-up suggestions on the tests:

  • test/bake/dev/css.test.ts, the case for a file that is imported twice: done in 4f29dd1. The case now compares the whole served stylesheet in both states, not only the file markers.
  • test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts, expectToBundleAgain: not changed. Each case already asserts the exact bytes of the first bundle. The second bundle only shows that the parser accepts those bytes. Its output is not the same for every case: for ImporterWithConditions the second pass merges the two adjacent @media screen rules. The css/CSSImportPrologue* cases in the same file make the same check.

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