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dev server: make each client ES module closure strict - #46735
After a hot update the dev server runs ES module code as sloppy code. In Chrome 153 one module prints undefined TypeError ReferenceError on load and object no throw made a global after one save. No user reported it.
Cause: a module is printed as a plain closure (src/js_printer/lib.rs:7033). The first load is a module script. A hot update is a classic script (hmr-runtime-client.ts:212).
Fix
A client module with ES module semantics now has "use strict" first in its closure (generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs). CommonJS closures, server chunks and lazy exports do not change.
Verified: test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts (5 rows sloppy on base), test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts, all of test/bake. Chrome 153: 0 of 15 rows sloppy, 5 before.
Self-reviewed: 6 concerns raised, 5 addressed. Not filed: a tracking issue (see Notes).
Background
A function with no directive takes the strictness of its script. A module script is always strict.
The HMR runtime runs a CommonJS module again on its used exports object. There the tsc output for a named re-export throws in strict code.
+18 bytes per client ES module per chunk: +11,538 B (1.46%) on a 641-module lodash-es page.
A file with import type or import.meta and exports that puts a getter over an assigned export now reloads the page on a save.
A CommonJS file is still strict on load and sloppy after a save.
Notes
How it was found. By inspection and a browser probe.
Repro.index.html loads ./app.ts with <script type="module">. serve.ts is Bun.serve({ development: { hmr: true }, routes: { "/": page } }).
// app.tsimport.meta.hot.accept();functionf(){returntypeofthis;}letw;try{Object.freeze({x: 1}).x=2;w="no throw";}catch(e){w=e.name;}letg;try{undeclaredName=1;g="made a global";}catch(e){g=e.name;}console.log("v1",f(),w,g);
Save app.ts with v2 in place of v1. Headless Chrome 153 over the DevTools protocol, 5 runs for each build:
base
this branch
first load
v1 undefined TypeError ReferenceError
same
the connected page after the save
v2 object no throw made a global
v2 undefined TypeError ReferenceError
a new page load
v2 undefined TypeError ReferenceError
same
Sloppy code also gives a wrong result with no error. (function (a) { a = 2; return arguments[0]; })(1) is 1 on load and 2 after a save. The test has this row too.
Which files get the directive. A client file (ast.target is browser) that is not a lazy export and that has ES module semantics:
the dev server prints it as an ES module (exports_kind is Esm). This includes a file with no module syntax. The first load already runs such a file strict.
or the parser marked its module scope strict because of import, export or top-level await syntax, and the dev server prints it as CommonJS. Example: import.meta.hot.accept() plus require(). A file whose only import is import type counts too: the parser reads it as strict code, and tsc 6.0.2 prints "use strict" for it.
A CommonJS file that only wrote its own "use strict" (tsc output) does not match. The parser drops that directive in this format, as before. #40926 keys its directive for cjs and iife output on the file's own strictness, which includes such a file. Here that would bring back the reload described below.
Measurements (base 5c6d4e2 and the same commit with this change, before the rebase on 5e18294).
Client bundle: +11,538 B (641 directives x 18 B) on the 641-closure lodash-es page (790,011 B before). +18 B on the repro app (104,768 to 104,786). Hot chunk: +18 B for each ES module in it (247 to 265 B for a save of one module).
Server and SSR chunks, pure CommonJS closures and JSON closures: 0 bytes changed. The --format=internal_bake_dev --target=bun print of a 13-file fixture has the same sha256 on both builds. In the --target=browser print the only changed lines are 8 added directives.
Print of a 643-closure dev bundle: +1.03 M user instructions (+0.71%), run-to-run spread 0.9%. 20 interleaved runs, each pinned to one CPU, release builds with --lto=off. Counted with perf_event_open, because perf is not installed here. Allocations were not measured (heaptrack, dhat and valgrind are not installed). By the code it is one S::Directive node for each matching file in a bundle.
sourcemap.test.ts 2 of 2 and server-sourcemap.test.ts 5 of 5 pass with no edit. The first mapped generated line of a one-module hot chunk moves from 4 to 5.
Chrome 153: 0 of 15 rows sloppy on the repro (base: 5 of 15). In an app with four file kinds, after a save that adds them: the 3 ES probes are strict (base: 0 of 3), the 2 .cjs probes are sloppy as on base. On a new page load all 5 are strict on both builds.
Release binary: .text +272 B, .rodata +0 B, same file size (size -A, release builds with --lto=off. bloaty is not installed).
test/bake: no test changes result because of this diff. On an idle machine all existing tests pass on base. On a loaded host 13 or 14 plain tests hit the 5 s default timeout on base and on this branch alike (production > builds and the two bun bake hydrates tests). On this branch each of them passes alone with a longer timeout (21 of 21 in production.test.ts, 2 of 2 hydrate tests). All devTest cases pass.
Each clause of the new check has a test that fails without it. Without the target clause the bun and node cases in bundler_loader.test.ts fail. Without the lazy-export clause the dev server stops on an empty .mjs file with panic: Unexpected tag in printStmt: .s_lazy_export, and the empty-module test in hot.test.ts fails.
Why not one directive for the whole hot-update chunk. That was built first. It makes every closure in the chunk strict, CommonJS too. The HMR runtime runs a CommonJS module again on the exports object of its last run (src/runtime/bake/hmr-module.ts, the two loadOrEsmModule(mod, cjs, cjs.exports) calls). For export { helper } from "./helper" tsc prints exports.helper = void 0 and then defines helper as a getter. On the second run the getter is there, so the write throws in strict code: TypeError: Cannot set property helper of #<Object> which has only a getter, and the page reloads. On main that save updates in place. The test a save of tsc CommonJS output with a named re-export updates in place holds this. A chunk-wide directive also lets one file with sloppy-only syntax fail the chunk in every open tab.
When the prefix can replace this.#31944, #39488 and #44743 change how a CommonJS module runs again. With a new exports object for each run, and the importers up to the accepting module run again, a strict CommonJS closure is safe. Then "use strict" first in the hot-update chunk (13 bytes, no line moves) covers ES and CommonJS closures, and this block can go. A new exports object alone is not enough: I ported the loader lines of #31944 (mod.cjs.exports = {} before the run, mod.exports = null after it) on main, and a save of the file behind a tsc export { helper } from or export * barrel left the page at the old value with no error.
Still different after a save. No tracking issue holds these cells yet.
A pure CommonJS closure in a client hot chunk: strict on a page load, sloppy after a save, as on main.
A file with its own "use strict" plus import.meta that the dev server prints as CommonJS: its strict mode is explicit, so the new check does not match it.
document.currentScript is null on a page load and the hot-update <script> after a save.
dev server: load the imports of a CommonJS module from inside its wrapper #46615 pins the first line of a closure for a file with import plus module.exports. This change starts that closure with the directive. The second one to land must update that assertion. That file shape fails on the first load on main, so it is not in the devTest here.
A file with no module syntax and sloppy-only syntax (with): the page load already fails for it. Now a hot update that holds it fails too.
Test client. The tests run the page in happy-dom under Node. happy-dom runs a module script as a sloppy function, so until now every client closure in these tests ran sloppy. ES module closures now run strict there, on load and after a save. The strictness test puts its probes in the hot update.
no test proof · iteration 5 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts
How I reproduced it: a Bun.serve HTML route with one self-accepting app.ts, loaded in headless Chrome 153. The module prints v1 undefined TypeError ReferenceError on the first load and v2 object no throw made a global after one save. That is 5 of 5 runs on 1.4.3-canary and on a build of main. On this branch the line after the save is v2 undefined TypeError ReferenceError.
In the test suite, a hot update runs ES module code in strict mode in test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts fails on a build of main with 5 sloppy rows and passes on this branch.
The branch holds main at b1007f1 (merge commit 476a100). The merge had one conflict, in the imports of generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs: #47944 removed the ToExprWrapper import next to the bun_ast import that this PR extends. The diff against main is the same three files as before (+270, -1).
test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts 16 of 16, test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts 65 of 65, test/bake/dev/sourcemap.test.ts 2 of 2, test/bake/dev/server-sourcemap.test.ts 5 of 5.
Each of the 27 test files in test/bake passes (287 tests).
With src/ of b1007f1 and the tests of this branch, hot.test.ts fails a hot update runs ES module code in strict mode (5 sloppy rows) and bundler_loader.test.ts fails bake-dev/strict-closures-browser.
CI on 476a100 (build 137651): 130 of 188 jobs pass, the 8 macOS test jobs among them. The 58 red jobs fail on 28 test files: 27 under test/aot, and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. Each of the 28 files is also red on main (build 137645 of b1007f1). This PR changes none of them. No test file that this PR changes failed.
One question is open for a maintainer: should a pure CommonJS closure also run strict after a hot update? The PR notes say what that needs.
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.
Walkthrough
The internal bake development path adds conditional "use strict" directives to browser-targeted wrappers. Tests cover generated closure output and hot-update strict-mode and export behavior.
The wrapper adds "use strict" for browser-targeted files with ESM exports or an implicit strict-mode reason, unless the file has a lazy export. Tests check closure output for browser, Bun, and Node targets.
Tests compare strict-mode probe results across saved modules, ES modules, top-level-await modules, plain JavaScript, and ES-module syntax printed as CommonJS.
Tests check updated CommonJS-printed ES-module exports, named re-exports, and modules that switch between empty and non-empty content.
Possibly related issues
oven-sh/bun#32175: The issue reports incorrect strict-mode behavior for ES module files. This PR adds strict mode to browser hot-update closures but does not change parser classification for .mjs or package "type": "module" files.
Possibly related PRs
oven-sh/bun#46730: This PR changes AST directive storage and linker handling. This change reads AST strict-mode state and inserts a directive into an internal bake wrapper.
oven-sh/bun#46578: This PR preserves use strict in bundled wrappers. This change applies wrapper-level strictness to client internal bake closures.
oven-sh/bun#47812: This PR changes when top-level await marks a file as ESM and implicitly strict. This change uses that strict-mode state when deciding whether to add a directive.
Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, alii
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 476a1
Hot-updated ES module code in the dev server now runs in strict mode, matching its behavior on initial load. CommonJS closures are intentionally unchanged, and the PR documents that remaining difference. No merge-blocking issue was found.
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- Line 795: Update the regression test containing the "use strict" TypeScript
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the directive always lands first in the closure body: stmt_list.reset() runs per part range in generateCompileResultForJSChunk.rs before the call, so inside_wrapper_prefix is empty when the directive is appended and the dev-server var/module.retrieve lines come after it. The closure parameters (hmr, module, exports) are plain identifiers, so a body directive cannot trip the non-simple-parameter SyntaxError.
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The change adds a conditional "use strict" directive to the dev-server (internal_bake_dev) module closure in generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs, gated on ESM exports kind or implicit strict-mode kinds, browser target, and no lazy export, plus devTest and itBundled coverage. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed findings about which files the strict-mode predicate matches are posted inline, so a human review is already signalled; this note only records the ordering and parameter checks that were ruled out.
A note on the CodeRabbit summary above. Its merge-risk line ("the new hot-update test can fail on its second save") is from its first pass. CodeRabbit withdrew that finding in the review thread: #46735 (comment)
The test a save of tsc CommonJS output with a named re-export updates in place passes on a build of main and on this branch. The dev server drops the fixture's own "use strict", so that CommonJS closure runs as sloppy code and the write over the getter is ignored.
Assert the export keys at each step of the empty-module HMR test.
The final check reads only dep.value. A namespace that kept a removed value key with an undefined value also prints value=undefined, so the test does not detect that retained key. The current runtime appears to handle this case, so this is a test-coverage improvement, not a production failure.
Any key log added to the fixture must also appear in every expectMessage call. Each call waits for exactly as many messages as it has arguments. It then compares the whole buffer with toEqual and clears it. A key line logged on each evaluation but missing from an earlier call can make that call fail or time out. Assert the key list in order at each step, with the expected key strings set to the keys exported at that step.
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Update the empty-module HMR test to log the export keys at each evaluation and
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test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts (17 pass) and test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts (68 pass) pass on a debug build of bf80135 that had this branch and eight other open PRs merged in. cargo check -p bun_runtime passes on this branch alone.
A dev-server module is printed as a plain closure, so it took the mode
of the script that holds it. The first load is a module script. A hot
update is a classic script, so after one save the same ES module ran as
sloppy code: `this` in a plain call, a write to a frozen object, an
assignment to an undeclared name, `arguments` after a parameter write.
A client module with ES module semantics now has "use strict" first in
its own closure. CommonJS closures stay as they are: the HMR runtime
runs a CommonJS module again on its used `exports` object, and strict
code throws there for a named re-export in the output of tsc. Server
chunks and lazy exports do not change.
One conflict, in the imports of generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs. #47944 removed the ToExprWrapper import that stood next to the bun_ast import this branch extends. The merged line keeps the three added names and drops ToExprWrapper.
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Problem
undefined TypeError ReferenceErroron load andobject no throw made a globalafter one save. No user reported it.src/js_printer/lib.rs:7033). The first load is a module script. A hot update is a classic script (hmr-runtime-client.ts:212).Fix
"use strict"first in its closure (generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs). CommonJS closures, server chunks and lazy exports do not change.test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts(5 rows sloppy on base),test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts, all oftest/bake. Chrome 153: 0 of 15 rows sloppy, 5 before.Background
exportsobject. There the tsc output for a named re-export throws in strict code."use strict"first in the hot-update chunk: it covers CommonJS too, so a save of such a file reloaded the page. A loader change (Serve fresh exports when CommonJS modules hot-reload in the dev server #31944) can make that prefix safe.Downsides
import typeorimport.metaandexportsthat puts a getter over an assigned export now reloads the page on a save.Notes
How it was found. By inspection and a browser probe.
Repro.
index.htmlloads./app.tswith<script type="module">.serve.tsisBun.serve({ development: { hmr: true }, routes: { "/": page } }).Save
app.tswithv2in place ofv1. Headless Chrome 153 over the DevTools protocol, 5 runs for each build:v1 undefined TypeError ReferenceErrorv2 object no throw made a globalv2 undefined TypeError ReferenceErrorv2 undefined TypeError ReferenceErrorSloppy code also gives a wrong result with no error.
(function (a) { a = 2; return arguments[0]; })(1)is1on load and2after a save. The test has this row too.Which files get the directive. A client file (
ast.targetisbrowser) that is not a lazy export and that has ES module semantics:exports_kindisEsm). This includes a file with no module syntax. The first load already runs such a file strict.import,exportor top-levelawaitsyntax, and the dev server prints it as CommonJS. Example:import.meta.hot.accept()plusrequire(). A file whose only import isimport typecounts too: the parser reads it as strict code, and tsc 6.0.2 prints"use strict"for it.A CommonJS file that only wrote its own
"use strict"(tsc output) does not match. The parser drops that directive in this format, as before. #40926 keys its directive forcjsandiifeoutput on the file's own strictness, which includes such a file. Here that would bring back the reload described below.Measurements (base 5c6d4e2 and the same commit with this change, before the rebase on 5e18294).
--format=internal_bake_dev --target=bunprint of a 13-file fixture has the same sha256 on both builds. In the--target=browserprint the only changed lines are 8 added directives.--lto=off. Counted withperf_event_open, becauseperfis not installed here. Allocations were not measured (heaptrack,dhatandvalgrindare not installed). By the code it is oneS::Directivenode for each matching file in a bundle.sourcemap.test.ts2 of 2 andserver-sourcemap.test.ts5 of 5 pass with no edit. The first mapped generated line of a one-module hot chunk moves from 4 to 5..cjsprobes are sloppy as on base. On a new page load all 5 are strict on both builds..text+272 B,.rodata+0 B, same file size (size -A, release builds with--lto=off.bloatyis not installed).test/bake: no test changes result because of this diff. On an idle machine all existing tests pass on base. On a loaded host 13 or 14 plain tests hit the 5 s default timeout on base and on this branch alike (production >builds and the twobun bake hydratestests). On this branch each of them passes alone with a longer timeout (21 of 21 inproduction.test.ts, 2 of 2 hydrate tests). AlldevTestcases pass.bunandnodecases inbundler_loader.test.tsfail. Without the lazy-export clause the dev server stops on an empty.mjsfile withpanic: Unexpected tag in printStmt: .s_lazy_export, and the empty-module test inhot.test.tsfails.Why not one directive for the whole hot-update chunk. That was built first. It makes every closure in the chunk strict, CommonJS too. The HMR runtime runs a CommonJS module again on the
exportsobject of its last run (src/runtime/bake/hmr-module.ts, the twoloadOrEsmModule(mod, cjs, cjs.exports)calls). Forexport { helper } from "./helper"tsc printsexports.helper = void 0and then defineshelperas a getter. On the second run the getter is there, so the write throws in strict code:TypeError: Cannot set property helper of #<Object> which has only a getter, and the page reloads. On main that save updates in place. The testa save of tsc CommonJS output with a named re-export updates in placeholds this. A chunk-wide directive also lets one file with sloppy-only syntax fail the chunk in every open tab.When the prefix can replace this. #31944, #39488 and #44743 change how a CommonJS module runs again. With a new
exportsobject for each run, and the importers up to the accepting module run again, a strict CommonJS closure is safe. Then"use strict"first in the hot-update chunk (13 bytes, no line moves) covers ES and CommonJS closures, and this block can go. A newexportsobject alone is not enough: I ported the loader lines of #31944 (mod.cjs.exports = {}before the run,mod.exports = nullafter it) on main, and a save of the file behind a tscexport { helper } fromorexport *barrel left the page at the old value with no error.Still different after a save. No tracking issue holds these cells yet.
"use strict"plusimport.metathat the dev server prints as CommonJS: its strict mode is explicit, so the new check does not match it.document.currentScriptisnullon a page load and the hot-update<script>after a save.Other open changes at this place.
"use strict"there, or the tsc reload comes back.importplusmodule.exports. This change starts that closure with the directive. The second one to land must update that assertion. That file shape fails on the first load on main, so it is not in the devTest here.await,evalandargumentsin esm output and for bundler-made bindings #34361: a bundler-made binding namedargumentsorevalis a syntax error in strict code. The page load already fails for such a package. Now a hot update that first imports it fails too.with): the page load already fails for it. Now a hot update that holds it fails too.Test client. The tests run the page in happy-dom under Node. happy-dom runs a module script as a sloppy function, so until now every client closure in these tests ran sloppy. ES module closures now run strict there, on load and after a save. The strictness test puts its probes in the hot update.
no test proof · iteration 5 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts