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Problem

  • With bun build --react-compiler, a read of ns.member can be wrong: isDark ? dark.name : light.name always reads dark.name, ns.count is read after ns.increment(), and a CommonJS method call loses this.
  • React.createElement("p", null, a, b) of import * as React compiles to _c(4), not _c(9) as upstream and import React.
  • The parser replaces ns.member with an import item (src/js_parser/fold.rs:209). HirBuilder::resolve_identifier (src/react_compiler/lowering/hir_builder.rs:1010) made a named import of it.

Fix

  • The parser records the namespace of each item and marks a method call. Lowering reads the item as upstream reads the member: LoadGlobal, PropertyLoad, MethodCall.
  • Codegen prints the same item again, so the linker binds each read as before.
  • Verified: test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts (18 new tests, 11 fail on main), both fixture suites.
  • Self-reviewed: 83 concerns raised, 79 addressed. Not done: members of other imports (see Downsides).

Background

  • An import item is the symbol that the parser makes for ns.member in a bundle. The linker binds it to the export.
  • Weighed: a type for the item only (wrong values stay), a property access until link time (every bundle pays).
  • Source conflict with bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833: src/js_parser/p.rs, src/js_parser/react_compiler_host.rs, src/react_compiler/lowering/build_hir/jsx.rs. Wanted order: bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 first (see Notes).

Downsides

  • A function at upstream's MethodCall::property limit is no longer compiled: 30 of 348 probe bundles, 0 of 3,267 functions in shadcn/ui.
  • A read of ns.member costs +27K instructions and +1.2% peak memory to compile, as import React does. Other functions: +0.02%. Binary: +4,608 bytes.
  • Not fixed: z.string() off a namespace behind a named import still keeps its whole module.
Notes

Where this came from. No user reported it. The wrong values are in bun build output only: the dev server does not run the compiler. Bun 1.4.2 has all three.

Reach in real code. shadcn-ui/ui at 96da9cc has 1,188 .tsx files with a namespace of a module. Each was built alone with --react-compiler --external '*' on a release build of the merge base and of this PR.

files compiled functions
built on both 1,188 3,267 and 3,267
a function is no longer compiled, or newly compiled 0 0
memo slots change 5 6, each to the count of upstream 1.0.0 (component-preview.tsx: 67 to 58)

I did not measure how many real files had a wrong value.

The reading that this replaces. hir_builder.rs:1010-1019 on main is fix 8 of #44805: import * as X from "./hooks.js" must keep its X.useMemo(..) calls, so the item got the module of its namespace. The member reading keeps that (HooksThatAreNotReactsAreCalled passes, and HookOfARequireLocalCalledReact and HookOfAnUnwrappedRequireCalledReact are the require() twins).

Kinds of namespace. import * as ns, a module-level const ns = require() or await import(), and a require() of a package that the bundler unwraps (react, react-dom, react-is), also inside the function. For the last two the module comes from the import record of the item.

The type of React. Only import * as React changes: its members get the type that upstream gives a member of an import with the name React. Every other way to name React keeps the slots of main: hooks are React's by the module (react_is_known_by_its_module, #44805), and createElement has no type, as upstream. The nine functions of the test fixture over six ways to import React: 12 of 54 differ from upstream 1.0.0 on main, 5 here, and those 5 differ on main too.

The limit. Upstream gives up on a function where a method would be called off a variable: [Codegen] Internal error: MethodCall::property must be an unpromoted + unmemoized MemberExpression. ns.f(list.push(x) + 1) + "/" + unit is such a function, as Math.floor(d.getTime() / 1000) + "/" + year is today. Main compiled it as t = ns.f; t(..), which loses this on a CommonJS namespace.

A call that is no method call. The parser folds (true ? ns.f : 0)(x) to a call of the bare item, and with --minify-syntax it puts const f = ns.f into f(x). The item of ns.f() has a bit on its node (E::ImportIdentifier::is_member_call_target, set only with the compiler on), so lowering does not depend on what else the module calls. FoldedCalleeOfANamespaceMemberIsNoMethodCall has both orders, with and without the minifier.

Source conflict with #44833, and the wanted order.
#44833 (bun test: Vitest compatibility) also changes the React Compiler. git merge-tree of this PR at 4809746 with its head fdbcf03 (committed 2026-10-28 12:59Z) stops in three files, in four hunks:

  • src/js_parser/p.rs, two hunks. Each PR adds a field to P below react_compiler_may_replace_body, and the initializer of that field. The merge keeps both: react_compiler_outlined_from_nested and react_compiler_namespace_of_item.
  • src/js_parser/react_compiler_host.rs, one hunk. bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 adds is_module_level above namespace_of_import_item. This PR replaces namespace_of_import_item with namespace_member. The merge keeps is_module_level and namespace_member. It drops namespace_of_import_item: Host has no such method after this PR, and bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 adds no caller.
  • src/react_compiler/lowering/build_hir/jsx.rs, one hunk. Each PR adds a name to the use super::helpers::{..} list. The merge keeps both: lower_namespace_member and lower_object_property_key.

Five more files change in both PRs and merge as text: codegen.rs, program.rs, build_hir/expr.rs, build_hir/helpers.rs and react-compiler.test.ts.

Wanted order: #44833 first. Then I rebase this PR and make the hand merge here. The hunk in react_compiler_host.rs is not "keep both", so it is safer in the PR that removes the method. If this PR lands first, #44833 needs the same four hunks at its next merge of main.

Checked on a debug (ASAN) build of the merge of 100aa9f and fdbcf03, with the four hunks merged that way. The build succeeds and these suites pass: react-compiler.test.ts (161 pass), react-compiler-fixtures.test.ts (3293), react-compiler-fixtures-run.test.ts (849), test/cli/lint/react-compiler.test.ts (26), bundler_jsx.test.ts (65). The commits after 100aa9f move the call-target mark of fold.rs into a helper, and change a comment in e.rs and one test. That test file passes on the same build.

No assertion failed, but two time limits did in some runs, in a 12-core container. The three cases of "gives these reads of a member of a namespace" took 2.1 s to 5.0 s. One of four runs of the file reached the 5 s default timeout. Since 8780ce8 these cases run in sequence: a process runs one Bun.build at a time, so each concurrent case waited for the builds of the other two. On a debug build of this PR alone a case takes 0.9 s to 1.8 s in 10 runs of the file (1.8 s to 4.6 s before, in 7 runs). The beforeAll hook of the fixture suite has a 120 s limit. It ran over in the first two of five runs (138 s measured), and took under 80 s in the other three.

Related open PRs, and an order.

What does not change.

  • A member of a default or named import, X.name. The visit pass marks that read (E::Dot::is_import_property_use) and codegen prints it anew without the mark. With export * as z behind a named import, z.string(v) in a compiled function keeps the namespace object and every export of the module, and z.who() gets it as this: 488 bytes without the flag, 1,589 with it, on main and here. Environment::namespace_members is the table that fix needs. It changes what every member read off an import prints, so it is not in this PR.
  • A read in the body of a component next to a call that gets its own memo block: [counter.count, tell(label, counter.increment())] gives [1, ..] with the flag and [0, ..] without, for a namespace and for a default import, as upstream 1.0.0 prints it.
  • A named import, a live default or a module-level let that is read ahead of a call is still a constant to the compiler, as to upstream.
  • exports.x in a CommonJS file, the phi fold for require() values (react-compiler: do not fold a local that holds a different module on each path #42376), ns?.member, const { a } = ns, and ns.default of a require() local. The last three are the 7 of 348 bundles that keep a declaration the plain bundle drops, on main and here.
  • ns["member"] is the same item as ns.member. Upstream takes no string key for a hook: React["useMemo"] is _c(4) here and _c(5) upstream, as on main.
  • A require() local that is declared below the function that reads it is no item to the parser, so the compiler does not know its module. As on main.
  • A call with many operands that has no type is still slow to compile. One React.createElement call with 1,000 children on a namespace: 18.6 s on main, 64 ms here. import { createElement } takes 16 to 19 s on both.

Measurements. Release builds of the merge base 11c3671 and of this PR at 565d22f, same machine and toolchain. The two commits after that change a test, a comment, and where fold.rs sets the bit. Instructions are instructions:u from perf_event_open, 5 interleaved runs.

  • compiler off: 0 of 79 outputs differ, instructions:u 211.77M against 211.63M for a three.js bundle (spread 1.1M). fold.rs gains one guarded insert where an item is made and one guarded bit where it is a call target, p.rs one map. No linker or printer file changes.
  • release binary: text +4,608 bytes (size: 138,010,898 to 138,015,506), data and bss equal.
  • namespace member read in a compiled function: +26.7K and +27.0K instructions:u per read (N = 200 and 400 React.useState(i)), within 0.4% of the import React twin. 7 more allocations per read, 1 fewer than the twin.
  • peak memory, 2,000 components with four hooks each: import * as React 439.8 MB to 444.9 MB (+1.2%). The import React twin takes 448.0 MB on main. Named imports 439.5 to 437.6 MB. Compiler off 45.2 to 44.8 MB.
  • decode: no new pass. 1 Host::namespace_member call per lowered import read and 1 hash probe per member: 201 calls for 200 members, 400 calls with 200 import statements and 200 other reads, 600 with twice both. For an item with no namespace alias the host walks the unwrapped require() sites of the file.
  • codegen: 0 new Host methods, 0 symbols created. One record_usage per printed item, as on main. Environment::namespace_members is empty unless the function reads a member.
  • compiler on, no namespace member: instructions:u +0.02% (1145.56M to 1145.79M for 500 components, spread 0.9M), allocations +0 (28,475 to 28,480 calls for 20 components on both binaries). 5 Host::namespace_member calls per component, each ends at one field test.
  • linked, with and without the compiler (348 bundles: 58 reads, three kinds of namespace, .js and .cjs, unminified, --target=browser): stdout differs in 15 on main and on 1.4.2, in 0 here. 330 functions are compiled on main and 300 here: the 30 are five reads at the limit.
  • the report's a.jsx with react bundled: 881 bytes (main 701: 9 slots against 4), 0 lines with exports_react or __export.

Tests that pass on main. Seven of the 18 guard one arm of the diff and pass on main: HooksOfANamespaceOfReactOnAServer, ModuleOfANamespaceLocalIsKnown, NamespaceMemberIsADependencyOfAMemoBlock, the two FoldedCalleeOfANamespaceMemberIsNoMethodCall, and the -bun cases of NamespaceMethodCallKeepsItsReceiver and NamespaceMemberOfACompiledFunctionIsBoundToItsExport.

Suites run on the debug build. react-compiler.test.ts (139 pass), react-compiler-fixtures.test.ts (3293 pass), react-compiler-fixtures-run.test.ts (849 pass), bundler_jsx.test.ts (65 pass), test/cli/lint/react-compiler.test.ts (26 pass).


no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts

…ts namespace

In a bundle the parser replaces `ns.member` with an import item. The
compiler read the item as the named import `import { member }`: a
constant global that is called as a plain function. So
`React.createElement` of `import * as React` had no type, two
namespaces with a member of one name were one constant, a read of a
member moved behind a call, and a method call lost its receiver.

The parser now records the namespace of each item it makes, and marks
the item of a method call. Lowering reads the item as upstream reads the
member expression: a LoadGlobal of the namespace, a PropertyLoad, and a
MethodCall for a method call. Codegen prints the same item again and
never the namespace, so the linker binds each read as before.
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Status: ready for review. No test that this PR touches fails in CI.

CI, build 134632. The build is finished: 188 jobs passed and 7 failed. The red jobs are not from this diff:

  • Six test-aot-drawn jobs, which Buildkite marks as soft failures. They run a sample of test/aot/ that the commit sha selects. This PR does not touch the AOT compiler. Builds 134533 and 134575 of this PR have the same src/ tree, and each failed in different test/aot/ files.
  • One macOS aarch64 test job. In test/js/bun/s3/s3.test.ts, the two R2 tests "should be able to upload large files using flush and partSize" timed out after 100 s. This PR does not touch S3.

How I reproduced it. With a stub react in node_modules and the two files of the report:

bun build --react-compiler a.jsx --target=browser --external='*' | grep '_c('
  • a.jsx (import * as React) prints _c(4) on main (11c3671) and on Bun 1.4.2.
  • c.jsx (import React) prints _c(9), and so does babel-plugin-react-compiler 1.0.0 for both files.
  • This branch prints _c(9) for both files.

The wrong values reproduce with NamespaceMembersAreReadWhereTheyAreWritten and NamespaceMethodCallKeepsItsReceiver in test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts. 11 of the 18 new tests fail on a release build of main, and all 18 pass on this branch.

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The React Compiler now tracks namespace import members through parsing, HIR lowering, and code generation. It handles member-call targets and namespace-member dependencies. Bundler tests cover supported import forms and runtime behavior.

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Namespace-member compilation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track namespace import members
src/ast/e.rs, src/js_parser/*, src/react_compiler/program.rs, src/react_compiler/react_compiler_host.rs, src/react_compiler/lib.rs
The parser records namespace mappings and member-call targets. NamespaceMember carries the namespace, original member name, and optional import-record index through the updated host interface.
Lower namespace members into HIR
src/react_compiler/hir/environment.rs, src/react_compiler/lowering/*
HIR lowering records namespace-member expressions, classifies their namespaces, and handles imported member calls and JSX tags.
Emit namespace-member imports
src/react_compiler/codegen.rs
Code generation uses mapped import-item expressions for namespace-member reads and dependencies. It omits the associated temporary load and rejects standalone reads of that temporary.
Document and test namespace-member behavior
src/react_compiler/DESIGN.md, test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts
The design document describes namespace-member handling. Bundler tests cover import forms, calls, memo dependencies, runtime results, and bundle contents.

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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 finding, I also checked three other paths and ruled them out: the infer-mode hook check in program.rs (react.useState() off a lowercase namespace is no longer a hook, which matches upstream's isHook on a member expression); a memo-block guard reading ns.member on each render in codegen.rs (that is the PropertyLoad upstream emits for the same source); and the cold_invariant in lower_namespace_member when the namespace is a local of an enclosing function (the parser only makes items of module-scope namespaces, so that path is not reachable from import * as or a module-level require()).

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The change spans the parser (a new Ref user bit on ImportIdentifier, a namespace map in P, the Host trait method) and the React Compiler lowering, hook inference and codegen, with 18 new bundler tests; it touches no security-sensitive surface. One confirmed finding is posted inline, so a human still needs to look; the ruled-out note records the other candidates examined.

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Trivial · Assert removal of the unused namespace export in compiled… · react-compiler.test.ts:4939-4945

test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts:4939-4945
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert removal of the unused namespace export in compiled and minified output.

keepsMore checks only whether compiled module bytes exceed plain module bytes. A retained notRead export can therefore pass when other output is smaller, and the check does not inspect minified module bytes. The tests near lines 1001–1040 cover selected namespace cases, not every concurrent ESM/CJS form or the minified build.

The existing names and side loops already cover all namespace forms and both compiled outputs. Add a direct sentinel assertion inside the output loop:

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       const text = await Bun.file(join(root, side, name, "entry.js")).text();
+      if (side !== "plain") expect(text).not.toContain("NOT_READ_SENTINEL");
       compiled[name] = Array.from(text.matchAll(/function (\w+)\(t0\) \{\s*let \$ = c\(\d+\)/g), m => m[1]);
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