[robobun]

Problem

• module._compile(text, filename) throws SyntaxError: Unexpected keyword 'export' for ES module text. Node.js loads that text as the ES module of filename.
• functionJSCommonJSModule_compile (src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp:892) evaluates the text as CommonJS only. A #! first line fails too: Invalid character: '#'.

Fix

• _compile evaluates the text as CommonJS first. If that fails, it loads the text as the ES module of path.resolve(filename), as require() does.
• Node.js uses this order (wrapSafe, loadESMFromCJS). Valid CommonJS takes the old path. A #! line becomes a // comment (node:module: accept a hashbang line at the start of a module._compile source #38325, included).
• Verified: test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js and require-extensions.test.ts (28 new tests, 22 fail on main, one fixture under Node.js too). Also test/js/node/module/, two test/aot programs.
• Self-reviewed: 54 concerns raised, 52 addressed. Rejected (Notes): a per-call flag read, and a rollback of text that does not load.

Background

• A Module._extensions handler loads the files of one extension. It usually calls module._compile(text, filename).
• Considered a transpiler pass on each input (fix(module): transpile source in Module._compile for ESM/TypeScript support #26875): it changes valid CommonJS and costs each call.

Downsides

• ES module text that reads require or __dirname throws ReferenceError, as in Node.js. Text that does not load keeps the name with its error. On main, mocha's import() fallback loaded the file in both cases.
• Known gap: an import() in flight holds the name only when its source arrives. Text that _compile gets before that takes the name, and that import() gets the text.
• A successful _compile: about 100 more instructions, no allocation. A failing one: up to 4 parses, 22.7 M to 67.4 M instructions for 327 KB. Binary: +9,728 bytes.

Notes

Reproduction

// plain.cjs
const Module = require("node:module");
const { readFileSync } = require("node:fs");
Module._extensions[".js"] = (m, f) => m._compile(readFileSync(f, "utf8"), f);
try {
  console.log("value:", require("./lib.js").value);
} catch (e) {
  console.log("THREW:", e.message);
}

// lib.js
export const value = "esm value";

Runtime	Output
main	THREW: Unexpected keyword 'export'
Node.js v26.3.0	value: esm value
this branch	value: esm value

No oven-sh/bun issue reports this. #47477 names the failure and does not change it. The open PR danger/danger-js#1539 names it for the Bun runner.

Who hits it

Checked with Node.js v26.3.0, main and this branch:

• coffeescript/register calls module._compile(js, filename). require("./mod.coffee") of a file with export value = "x" throws on main. Node.js and this branch return the exports.
• require-from-string calls m._compile(code, filename). requireFromString("export const a = 1") throws on main. Node.js and this branch return { a: 1 }.
• mocha 11.7.5 with --require coffeescript/register and a .coffee spec file that has import and export: main prints 0 passing and exits with 0. Node.js and this branch print 1 passing.

A hook that only changes CommonJS text (pirates, @babel/register) is not affected.

What changes for a file that loaded on main

mocha calls require() first and import() if that throws. Take a handler that reads a .js file and calls module._compile, and a spec file that is an ES module.

Spec file	main	Node.js	this branch
ES module	1 passing (through import(), the handler text is not used)	1 passing	1 passing (the handler text runs)
ES module that reads __dirname	1 passing (through import())	ReferenceError: __dirname is not defined in ES module scope	the same ReferenceError
ES module, and the handler text imports a file that is not found	1 passing (through import())	1 passing (through import())	the error of the import that is not found

Bun's own loader gives an ES module file require, __filename and __dirname (not module or exports). The text that _compile runs is not transpiled and has none of them, as in Node.js.

The last row is different for an extension that only the handler reads. With --require coffeescript/register and a .coffee spec that is an ES module and imports a file that is not found (mocha 11.7.5, coffeescript 2.7.1):

main	Node.js v26.12.1	this branch
0 passing, exit code 0	exit code 1, ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION from the import() fallback	exit code 1, Cannot find module './not-here.mjs'

Bun's own loader reads a .coffee file as an asset. So the import() fallback must not get the file: it would count as a load, and the spec would be dropped without an error. The name that the text keeps prevents that.

When _compile loads the text as an ES module

All of these are necessary:

1. The CommonJS evaluation threw a parse error, and Module.wrapper was the default when _compile built the wrapper.
2. A second parse of the same wrapped text fails. This separates a wrapper that does not parse from a body that throws a parse error of its own (new Function("export const a = 1"), a nested _compile).
3. The name is free. The name is path.resolve(filename), the path of pathToFileURL(filename) in Node.js, in the spelling that the loader uses for a load of that name. "Registered" means that the loader has an entry for the name. If an ES module is registered under the name, that module is the one that loads (the first one wins, as in the load cache of Node.js). A name keeps the CommonJS error if one of these holds it: a CommonJS file that the loader registered (the entry file, a file that an import loaded), a file that a static import still fetches, a mock.module() mock, a plugin module, or a module of an ahead-of-time executable. So does a name that path.resolve() cannot make. A load by name (import(), Module.runMain, Bun.ModuleGraph#import, the entry point) has an entry only when its source arrives: see "Known gap".
4. The ES module parse accepts the text.

In all other cases _compile throws the CommonJS error again. If the two parses both fail, _compile throws the error of the parse that read more of the text. On a tie it throws the CommonJS error.

The ES module runs as it is. The transpiler does not touch it, so require, module, exports, __filename and __dirname do not exist, as in Node.js. A ReferenceError for one of those names gets the words of Node.js: require is not defined in ES module scope, you can use import instead. If the text also has top-level await, the error gets the other words of Node.js, with the code ERR_AMBIGUOUS_MODULE_SYNTAX. The sentence of Node.js about "type": "module" in a package.json is not added: here the text makes the ES module, not the package.

After the text is registered, the name behaves as it does for a file. A module that does not load (an import is not found or does not link), or that throws, stays registered with its error until the name is deleted from require.cache.

Known gap: a load by name that is in flight

const p = import(file) and, in the same tick, _compile(text, file):

Runtime	_compile	p
Node.js v26.3.0, v26.12.1	throws ERR_REQUIRE_ESM_RACE_CONDITION	the file
main	throws the SyntaxError	the file
this branch	loads the text	the text, and the file does not run

• Cause: the loader makes the entry of a load by name only when the source of the load arrives (JSModuleLoader::loadModule in oven-sh/WebKit, the branch without an entry). A static import makes its entry before the fetch. So item 3 sees a free name while the fetch of a load by name is not answered.
• This PR takes the answer of main as the wanted one. _compile gives it, with no change of its own, once the loader registers the load when its fetch starts: it already keeps the SyntaxError for an entry that has no module yet. The test an import() of the file that has started keeps the name of the file expects that answer and is marked as failing.
• The loader change is a change in oven-sh/WebKit and a version bump here, so it cannot be a part of this PR. This PR changes 0 lines under src/ for this order.
• That change is built on a branch of oven-sh/WebKit. It is not opened as a pull request. Its report is in this comment: node:module: make module._compile() accept ES module text and a hashbang line #47519 (comment). By that report, the marked test passes with the change, one compiled executable stops at an assertion, and require() through a handler throws while an import() of the same file is in flight. Which load keeps the name is an open question for a maintainer.
• Considered a table of loads in flight on the Bun side: it charges each import() or each fetch, and it sees 2 of the 10 places that start a load by name.
• How long the gap is open, by runs on this branch. If the fetch answers inside the hook (a plugin onLoad that is not async, or BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_ASYNC_TRANSPILER=1), it closes after one microtask tick: 1 to 2 ticks give the SyntaxError and the file, 3 to 4 ticks give the TypeError of require() for a module that is not loaded yet, and from 5 ticks _compile returns the module of the file. With the default transpile on another thread, it stays open until the source is delivered (the text still loads after 20 ticks).
• The fixture row: 0 of 400 runs on this branch (200 of them with BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_ASYNC_TRANSPILER=1) and 0 of 100 runs under Node.js (v26.3.0 and v26.12.1) differ from the table. The row costs the fixture one import() and one file. The marked test reads the rows of the under bun test, so it adds no spawn.

Differences from Node.js that stay

• Top-level await: Bun starts the module and then throws a TypeError. Node.js throws ERR_REQUIRE_ASYNC_MODULE and runs nothing. This is the require() contract for ES modules on main (require(esm): reject top-level await before evaluating, with ERR_REQUIRE_ASYNC_MODULE #41788 and node: require(esm) v26 compat — TLA + cycle error contract (+72 tests) #35693 change it).
• __esModule is not an own property of the namespace (require(esm): make __esModule an own enumerable property on a null-prototype namespace #33894).
• The path of the CommonJS entry file, and of a CommonJS file that an import loaded, keeps the SyntaxError. Node.js loads the text for the path of the entry file, and returns the exports of the file for an imported CommonJS file.
• After require() alone loaded a CommonJS file, the two runtimes agree: the text loads under the path of the file, import() of the path gets the text, and require() keeps the exports of the file.
• Text under the path of a CommonJS file that nothing loaded: require() of the path then gets the text, because one registry answers require() and import(). Node.js runs the file for require().
• A file that a static import still fetches keeps the SyntaxError, and the importer gets the file.
• A ? in filename starts a query, as in every module name in Bun. import("c.js?x") and require("c.js?x") get text that was compiled under c.js?x, and its import.meta.filename is c.js. In Node.js the filename is the path of a file with a ? in its name: that import() loads c.js, and import.meta.filename is c.js?x. A # is a part of the path in the two runtimes.
• Text with an import that is not found keeps the name with its error. Node.js lets go of the name, so other text under the same name loads there. A rollback was built and removed: it cannot be made clean. An import cycle leaves a second module bound to the text, a load that a plugin answers later still runs the text, and the loader has no removal for one module type of a name. For a file, Bun keeps such an entry too. A free name is also the wrong result in Bun for an extension that only a handler reads: the import() fallback of mocha then gets an asset module, and a spec with an import that is not found is dropped without an error (row missing.coffee of the test require() first and import() when it throws).
• require.main._compile(text, filename) loads the text. Node.js imports the file of the name and ignores the text.
• Bun does not read the third argument (format).
• A replaced Module.wrapper stops the ES module path only while it is replaced. In Node.js the stop is permanent, and an assignment to Module.wrap stops it too. Bun sends no text through a replaced Module.wrap.
• A separator at the end of filename is not a part of the name. Bun's resolver reads the name of a module without it.
• With the working directory gone, the name is what path.resolve(filename) answers in Bun. For t.js that is a path in the directory that was the working directory, and the text loads. Where path.resolve() throws ("", while process.cwd() has no stored answer), the text gets the CommonJS SyntaxError. Node.js throws ENOENT for each relative name.
• A #! line is a comment under a replaced Module.wrapper too. Node.js compiles the wrapped text as a script there and throws a SyntaxError.
• The message is changed for an error that ReferenceError made and that has no name of its own. Node.js reads e.name. If the message is read-only, Bun leaves the error as it is. Node.js throws a TypeError there.
• Only the required file goes to a handler. The imports of the ES module text do not.
• Bun gives some files to no handler: .mjs, .ts, and names such as .coffee.md (node:module: let the .js extension handler pick the loader from the file name #47216).
• In an ahead-of-time executable a compiled module keeps its path. Since AOT: bun test --aot on large suites, module loading fixes, fuzzer fixes #47316, __filename there is where the file lay when the program was built, so _compile first maps the name to the path in the executable (Bun::pathInExecutable). A bundled --compile executable loads the text, also under the path of the entry.

Not run: Windows. The name of a file inside a standalone executable has forward slashes there, and path.win32.resolve gives backslashes. The name goes through the resolve hook of the loader for that reason.

Other changes in this PR

• The branch includes main (3f3a9ff). With main merged and no other change, test/aot/parallel/commonjs/module-compile-es-module-text/main.cjs failed: ES module text under __filename took the name of a file of the executable. fe06013 corrects that.
• The #! change is the one of node:module: accept a hashbang line at the start of a module._compile source #38325, with its tests. This PR replaces node:module: accept a hashbang line at the start of a module._compile source #38325.
• Bun::pathResolve (src/jsc/bindings/Path.cpp) calls the native path.resolve, next to Bun::pathDirname.
• runtime-dependencies.builtins.ts gets two rows. They tell the ahead-of-time compiler that _compile can call requireESMFromHijackedExtension. The declaration for them stands beside the other CommonJS declarations of that file.
• The Worker test calls _compile without a handler. On main a Worker that sets Module._extensions does not free its table of handlers, and LeakSanitizer reports that.

Difference from #26875

#26875 sent each _compile input through the transpiler. This PR does no work until the CommonJS evaluation throws, and it does not transpile. Valid CommonJS text runs exactly as on main.

Related open PRs

• node:module: route CommonJS evaluation through an overridden Module.prototype._compile #45322 and node:module: hand a file that bun cannot parse to a replaced module._compile #42370 send CommonJS evaluation through a replaced _compile. They do not load ES module text.
• node:module: let the .js extension handler pick the loader from the file name #47216 is about the extension that selects a handler.
• node:module: implement synchronous module.registerHooks() (+49 tests) #35690 (draft, registerHooks) sends ES module text of a hook through the transpiler. This PR parses the text as it is.

Measurements

Release builds, linux x64: main (204d701) against main plus this change.

• evaluateCommonJSModuleOnce: 0 of 1,024 instructions differ. 4,618 bytes in the two builds.
• Successful _compile of CommonJS text, 1,000 calls, 3 runs for each build: the median of the instructions for a call is 51,391 to 51,447 on main and 51,507 to 51,534 with the change. The minimum is 50,857 to 50,871 and 50,919 to 50,921. 86 allocations in the two builds. No parse and no file system call added.
• _compile with a body that throws a usual error: median 67,407 to 67,521 instructions. 94 allocations in the two builds. No parse added.
• Parses for each call: CommonJS text 3 (3 on main). ES module text: 2 failed script parses, 1 module parse, 1 parse for code generation (1 failed parse on main). CommonJS text with a syntax error: 4 failed parses (1 on main).
• 327 KB CommonJS text: 25.15 M instructions in the two builds. With a syntax error at the end: 22.69 M to 67.37 M. With the error in the first line: 1.74 M to 4.40 M. With export {}; at the end: main throws after 22.68 M, this branch loads the ES module in 70.11 M.
• ES module text through _compile: 96,221 instructions, 135 allocations, no file system call for the name, 14 GC cells for each module. require() of the same text in a .mjs file keeps 19 cells.
• Memory: 113 KB RSS for each 49 KB ES module text (1,000 and 2,000 different texts).
• Binary text: 138,182,487 to 138,192,215 bytes (+9,728). _compile 2,560 to 2,840 bytes. The new cold function is 3,210 bytes, the message helper 2,143 bytes.
• --trim size: not measured. A local build has no trim table.

Self-review

• Rejected: a read of hasEvaluated before each call, to skip the second parse in a _compile call that contains another _compile call. It adds work to each call to save a parse on the error exit.
• Rejected: a rollback of text that does not load (see "Differences from Node.js that stay"). Two more ways to let go of the name were built and reviewed after that, and dropped: a removal behind a walk over the registry (1,000 failing texts with 20,000 registered modules took 11 s in place of 27 ms), and a resolve of the imports before the name is registered (it drops the .coffee spec above without an error).
• Partly done: the second parse and a failed module parse no longer stay in the source provider cache of JSC. The failed CommonJS program stays there until a full collection, as on main.
• Partly done: an error whose prototype gives it another name than ReferenceError still gets the words. A read of that name can run code.

Tests run

• bun bd test test/js/node/module/ test/regression/issue/require-extensions-override.test.ts test/cli/run/run-cjs.test.ts test/cli/run/run-eval.test.ts: 235 pass, 1 skip.
• With the src/ of main: node-module-module.test.js 16 fail, require-extensions.test.ts 6 fail. Six new tests pass there. They are controls: what happens under Node.js, with mock.module(), with =strict, in a disposed graph, for a static import that still fetches, and for #! in another place than the start. The test that is marked as failing is one of the 16: main gives the answer that it expects.
• The fixture gives the same rows under Node.js v26.3.0 and v26.12.1 (the same bytes).
• test/aot/run-parallel.ts on the two new programs, test/aot/code-the-compiler-never-saw.test.ts -t "es module text", and test/internal/builtins-table (133 pass), with a release build. They ran again on fe06013, which includes main (3f3a9ff). The move of the declaration in runtime-dependencies.builtins.ts leaves each of the 464 generated files with the same bytes.
• BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 on the fixture.

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no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js

[robobun]

Reproduced on main with the two files of the report. plain.cjs sets Module._extensions[".js"] to a handler that calls m._compile(readFileSync(f, "utf8"), f) and then calls require("./lib.js"). lib.js is export const value = "esm value";.

• main prints THREW: Unexpected keyword 'export'.
• Node.js v26.3.0 and this branch print value: esm value.

PR: #47519

State at fe06013:

• The branch now includes main (3f3a9ff). Since AOT: bun test --aot on large suites, module loading fixes, fuzzer fixes #47316, __filename in an ahead-of-time executable says where the file lay when the program was built. With this branch merged into main and no other change, test/aot/parallel/commonjs/module-compile-es-module-text/main.cjs failed. fe06013 corrects _compile for that.
• Checked on the merged head: node-module-module.test.js and require-extensions.test.ts (130 pass, 1 skip, on a debug build and on a release build), the two test/aot programs, and test/internal/builtins-table (133 pass).
• CI build 136559 on this head is finished: 121 jobs passed, 63 failed, and the 4 macOS x64 test jobs expired without a run. No test of this PR failed. 29 test files are red. 28 of them are also red in the latest build of main (136408). The other one, test/aot/heap-limit.test.ts, failed on one lane with an allocation failure, and this PR does not touch it.
• One decision is open for a maintainer: the scope that ES module text gets. It is the Node.js scope now. The other choice is Bun's own ES module pipeline. The facts are in node:module: make module._compile() accept ES module text and a hashbang line #47519 (comment).

[robobun]

^{Updated 2:05 PM PT - Nov 1st, 2026}

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Module.prototype._compile now handles hashbang bodies and attempts ES-module loading after eligible parse errors. Runtime wiring and path bindings support this behavior. Tests cover direct compilation, extension handlers, module graphs, and bundled execution.

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CommonJS _compile ES-module handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hashbang body embedding src/jsc/bindings/EmbedFunctionBody.h, src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp, test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js	_compile separates a hashbang prefix from the source body before constructing the wrapper. Tests cover hashbang line endings, line numbers, and wrapper behavior.
ES-module fallback and runtime wiring src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/Path.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/Path.h, src/codegen/builtins/host/runtime-dependencies.builtins.ts	After eligible parse errors from the default wrapper, _compile attempts ES-module loading. The change also adds path.resolve bindings and updates runtime dependency declarations.
Direct _compile behavior tests test/js/node/module/module-compile-es-module-fixture.cjs, test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js	Tests record behavior for module syntax, imports, filenames, wrapper changes, errors, mocked and in-flight modules, and code-generation flags.
Extension-handler and compiled execution tests test/js/node/module/require-extensions.test.ts, test/aot/code-the-compiler-never-saw-cases.ts, test/aot/parallel/commonjs/module-compile-es-module-text/*	Tests cover extension handlers, require and import entry points, Workers, module graphs, and AOT execution contexts.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 1

test/js/node/module/module-compile-es-module-fixture.cjs: 1

244-244: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Make the empty-filename row change directory before it compiles.

emptyFilenameAfterChdir calls process.chdir(process.cwd()), which keeps the same directory. A cache keyed by the raw empty filename would still return sameModule: true, so this row cannot detect stale reuse after a real directory change. The row name also says the directory changes.

Suggested fix

 rows.emptyFilenameAfterChdir = attempt(() => {
-  process.chdir(process.cwd());
-  const exports = exportsOf("export const filename = import.meta.filename;", "");
-  return { filename: relative(exports.filename), sameModule: exports === ofEmptyFilename };
+  const before = process.cwd();
+  try {
+    process.chdir(here("sub"));
+    const exports = exportsOf("export const filename = import.meta.filename;", "");
+    return { filename: relative(exports.filename), sameModule: exports === ofEmptyFilename };
+  } finally {
+    process.chdir(before);
+  }
 });

Update the expected value in test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js at line 1388. The Node.js expectation is built from the same object, so this one change covers both engines.

-      emptyFilenameAfterChdir: { filename: "", sameModule: true },
+      emptyFilenameAfterChdir: { filename: "sub", sameModule: false },

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Review comments at @test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js:
- Line 1317: Update the ES-module fallback used by _compile to preserve a
filename’s trailing separator instead of letting pathResolve remove it; keep the
separatorAtTheEndOfTheFilename case verifying that the module name and resulting
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[robobun]

The emptyFilenameAfterChdir row now also compiles under the empty filename in another directory (d718483). The separator at the end of a filename is answered in the review thread: it stays as it is, and the comment in the code is corrected.

[robobun]

The comments in JSCommonJSModule.cpp that the comment check marked are one line each now (0063972). The reasons that they gave are in the description.

[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the exception handling in compileAsESModuleAfterCommonJSThrew: the clear-and-rethrow uses the in-tree tryClearException() pattern (which refuses to clear a termination, and the function bails out in that case), and the saved JSC::Exception* lives in a stack local across the loader calls, so it stays rooted until it is rethrown.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds an ES-module fallback to Module.prototype._compile in src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp, a hashbang rewrite helper, and a Bun::pathResolve binding, with tests under test/js/node/module and test/aot. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. The posted inline findings are behavioral and Node-compat design questions that need a human decision; the exception-scope handling that the repo rules flag for scrutiny was examined and found consistent with existing sites in the same file.

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

[claude]

🔴 Bun users whose ES module files use require, __dirname or __filename now get a ReferenceError from a read-and-compile require.extensions handler, and a later import() of that file fails too, where base loaded the file. JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1008 parses the text as a bare JSC module, not through Bun's ESM pipeline that defines those names, and 1027-1029 registers the failed record under the file's own key. Fix: give _compile'd ES module text the environment import() of that path gets (transpile it as Bun does every ES module) so those names keep working. The PR calls the ReferenceError accepted; the registry entry also blocks the base's import() fallback.

Why this was flagged

A Module._extensions[".js"] handler reads a file and calls module._compile(text, filename) (test/js/node/module/require-extensions.test.ts handler.cjs shape, coffeescript/register, require-from-string with a real path). The file is an ES module written for Bun, e.g. `export const dir =…

Verification: Trigger: a Module._extensions handler passing ES-module text using __dirname/require to module._compile unchanged, then an import() fallback. src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1009-1010 hands it to loader->makeModule(...), never Bun's transpiler. Lines 1027-1030 register the record under the file's own key. On base nothing was registered, so import() loaded the file.

[robobun]

Not changed in this push. It is the first bullet of Downsides, and it is the answer of Node.js for the same text.

The other design sends ES module text through the transpiler, so that the text gets the names that a Bun ES module file has. _compile would then treat the two kinds of text in two ways: CommonJS text runs as it is, as on main, and ES module text is transpiled. That is a decision for a maintainer. This thread stays open for it.

[robobun]

Facts for that decision, checked on this branch:

• In an ES module file Bun defines require, __filename and __dirname. module and exports are not defined there, as in Node.js. The description said module too. It is corrected.
• mocha 11.7.5 with a read-and-compile handler and a spec that reads __dirname: Node.js v26.12.1 and this branch fail with the same ReferenceError. main prints 1 passing, because the handler text is not used there.
• With the transpiler for ES module text, an --aot --trim executable that can reach _compile would keep the RuntimeTranspiler feature (minimum 700,000 bytes in src/trim/features/bun.def).

[claude]

Code review found no new issues

No new issues were found in this update; 5 findings from earlier reviews are still open above.

Still open from earlier reviews (5):

• 🔴 src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1029 — Bun users whose ES module files use require, __dirname or __filename now get a ReferenceError from a read-and-compile r…
• Also unresolved: 4 minor or pre-existing.

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[robobun]

This push corrects five places where the description did not say what the branch does, and adds a test for each (a2908ba to 5d81ce2). JSCommonJSModule.cpp does not change.

• An import() of the file that has started: the text takes the name, and that import() gets the text. The description has a "Known gap" section for this order. The wanted answer is the one of main (the SyntaxError, and the import() gets the file). A test that is marked as failing holds it. It needs a loader change in oven-sh/WebKit, which cannot be a part of this PR.
• After require() alone loaded a CommonJS file, the text loads under the path of the file, as in Node.js. Only a CommonJS file that the loader registered keeps the SyntaxError.
• A ? in the filename starts a query, as in every module name in Bun.
• With the working directory gone, a relative name such as t.js loads. Only a name that path.resolve() cannot make keeps the SyntaxError.
• A #! line under a replaced Module.wrapper is a comment. Node.js throws a SyntaxError there.

The declaration in runtime-dependencies.builtins.ts moved a few lines up, so that the file merges with another open pull request that adds a declaration on the same line. The generated files keep the same bytes.

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Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

• 🔴 src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1011 — Bun users whose ES module files use require, __dirname or __filename now get a ReferenceError from a read-and-compile r…
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Follow-up Comments

Compare the importInFlight row in the passing Bun test.

1454-1455: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Compare the importInFlight row in the passing Bun test.

The under bun test removes importInFlight from result.rows before it compares the rows. A wrong value for that row causes no failure in this test. The test.failing assertion also passes for any value other than the Node.js value. A regression that changes the current Bun output for this row to another wrong value therefore fails no test.

Add the current Bun output for the row to underBun, and stop removing importInFlight before the comparison. Keep the test.failing assertion for the required Node.js value. This matches how underBun pins the other known Bun-specific differences. When the import race is fixed, this row and the test.failing assertion both need updating.

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Review comment at @test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js around lines
1454 - 1455:
Update the passing Bun expectation in the test around `underBun` to include the
current `importInFlight` row, and compare `result.rows` without destructuring or
removing that row. Keep the `test.failing` assertion that checks the required
Node.js value.

Compare the full directory path in the deleted-directory test.

1547-1547: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Compare the full directory path in the deleted-directory test.

Line 1547 returns only path.basename(module.exports.directory), and line 1567 expects "loaded in gone". Any directory named gone passes, whatever its parent. The test comment at lines 1529-1532 states that the former working directory is the base, but the assertion does not check it.

Have the fixture return the full loaded directory. In the test, compare it with the canonical path of the removed gone directory under the temp directory. Canonicalize both sides so the comparison holds on platforms with symlinked temp paths.

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Review comment at @test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js at line 1547:
Update the fixture’s return value to include the full module.exports.directory
instead of only its basename, then change the deleted-directory test to compare
that path with the removed gone directory under the canonical temp-directory
path. Canonicalize both paths so symlinked temp paths do not affect the
comparison.

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[robobun]

The two follow-up comments are done in d427c52.

• importInFlight: the under bun test now compares the row. underBun holds what happens today, and the failing test keeps the wanted answer.
• The test of a working directory that is gone compares the whole directory with the one that was removed.

The same commit adds two rows to require() first and import() when it throws: a .coffee file that loads, and a .coffee file whose import is not found. For the second one import() must give the same error as require(). Bun's own loader reads a .coffee file as an asset, so a load of the file would hide the failure.

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Follow-up Comments

Count handler calls in the failed .coffee case.

650-650: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Count handler calls in the failed .coffee case.

The missing.coffee expectation can pass when the .coffee handler runs more than once. instrumented increments only when the module body runs, and the body never runs for that file. Add a call count or assert on handler.seen for this case.

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Review comment at @test/js/node/module/require-extensions.test.ts at line 650:
In the failed `missing.coffee` case, `instrumented` does not detect repeated
handler invocations because the module body never runs. Add an assertion using
the handler call count or `handler.seen` to verify the `.coffee` handler runs no
more than once.

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[robobun]

Done in c49db14. Each row of require() first and import() when it throws now has handlerCalls, and the expected value is 1 for all six files. So the test also fails if import() goes to the handler a second time, for missing.coffee too.

[claude]

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[robobun]

The loader change that the "Known gap" section names is built and measured. I do not open it as a pull request. One decision comes first.

The change is on a branch of oven-sh/WebKit, two commits on a7b59e61de. It registers a load by name when its fetch starts. On a debug build of this PR with it, the importInFlight row gives the wanted answer, and the test that is marked as failing passes.

Why it stays a branch:

1. It breaks a compiled executable. The program is await Promise.all([import("node:zlib"), import("./a"), import("./b")]), where a imports node:zlib, built with --compile --bytecode --format=esm --splitting. A debug build with the change stops at ASSERTION FAILED: module->status() == Status::Unlinked (AbstractModuleRecord.cpp:2161). Without the change the program exits with 0.
2. The order has no decided answer. With the change, a require() through a Module._extensions handler throws while an import() of the same file is in flight. For a .coffee file the module then never runs (table in the notes).
3. It overlaps [JSC] A failed loadModule() stores its error in the registry entry it loaded WebKit#754, which waits for an answer. I wrote there that I open no second engine pull request before that answer.

Question for a maintainer. An import() of a file has started. In the same tick, module._compile(text, file) runs, directly or from a handler during require(). Which load keeps the name?

• a. The import(), and _compile throws. Node.js does this for a .js file (ERR_REQUIRE_ESM_RACE_CONDITION).
• b. The text. This PR does this today.

With (b), the test that is marked as failing goes away, and the order becomes a listed difference from Node.js. With (a), the engine needs a change in another shape (notes).

Notes

What each runtime does

import(K) has started. Then, in the same tick:

	Node.js 26.3.0	main	this PR	this PR with the loader change
_compile(otherText, K)	ERR_REQUIRE_ESM_RACE_CONDITION, import() gets the file	SyntaxError, import() gets the file	the text for both, the file never runs	SyntaxError, import() gets the file
require(K) through a .js handler that compiles the text of K	ERR_REQUIRE_ESM_RACE_CONDITION	SyntaxError	the module, one evaluation	SyntaxError
require(K) with no handler	ERR_REQUIRE_ESM_RACE_CONDITION	the module	the module	the module
require("spec.coffee") through a handler	require() gets the module, import() rejects	SyntaxError, import() gets the path of the file, the module never runs	the module for both, one evaluation	SyntaxError, import() gets the path of the file, the module never runs

In the last row Node.js rejects the import(), and its require() loads the module. Bun's own loader answers an import() of a .coffee file with the path of the file. If that import() keeps the name, nothing loads the module.

Every row is a run of one script on the four runtimes. "main" is a release build of 367d939. The other two Bun columns are debug builds of 5d81ce2.

What the loader change does

• JSModuleLoader::loadModule() by key registers an entry in the New state when the fetch hook has returned. Nothing waits on the entry. A fetch that fails removes it.
• A first import() runs the same 17 jobs and makes the same 15 promises, 3 registry lookups and 1 host fetch as without the change (breakpoint hit counts for 100 and 300 imports). The sizes of ModuleRegistryEntry and ModuleLoadingContext do not change.
• The entry is visible to every reader of the registry, not only to _compile. That is the cause of reason 1: registerPrelinkedSubgraph (ZigGlobalObject.cpp:4353, :4392) finds an entry without a record and leaves the graph incomplete. With BUN_JSC_usePrelinkedModuleInfo=0 the program passes.
• A second defect of the same kind. An onLoad that runs queued jobs (it calls HTMLRewriter#transform() with an async handler) lets a failed import() remove an entry that a static import loads into. The file then runs twice (1 evaluation and 2 onLoad calls without the change, 2 and 3 with it).
• No release build of the change exists, so what a release build does in these two orders is not known.

A shape that avoids reason 1

A count of the loads by name whose fetch is out, kept in JSModuleLoader beside the registry. _compile asks for it when the registry has no entry for the name. Nothing goes into the registry, so no other reader changes. The expected cost is one hash insert and one removal per first load by name. It is not built.

The program of reason 1

// entry.ts
const [zlib, a, b] = await Promise.all([import("node:zlib"), import("./a"), import("./b")]);
console.log(typeof zlib.gzipSync, a.a, b.b);

// a.ts
import { gzipSync } from "node:zlib";
import { shared } from "./shared";
export const a = "a:" + shared + ":" + typeof gzipSync;

// b.ts
import { shared } from "./shared";
export const b = "b:" + shared;

// shared.ts
export const shared = "shared";

bun build --compile --bytecode --format=esm --splitting ./entry.ts --outfile out, then ./out. With import("node:zlib") as the last element of the array, the program passes on both builds.

[claude]

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[claude]

🟡 (optional) Programs that start import(file) and, before its source arrives, feed ES text for the same path to module._compile now get the text from that import and the file never runs; on the base branch the import loaded the file. At src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1028 getRegisteredMayBeNull sees no entry while the fetch is pending, so lines 1049-1051 register the text under the file's key and the arriving file source is dropped. The PR calls this a known gap; the consequence is silent wrong exports, not an error. Fix: a load by name that has started must keep its name, by registering the entry when the fetch starts or by having compileAsESModuleAfterCommonJSThrew rethrow the CommonJS error when a load of key is in flight; the call is the author's or a maintainer's.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: const p = import("./in-flight.mjs") followed in the same tick by new Module(f)._compile('export const who = "text";', f) for the same path, as test/js/node/module/module-compile-es-module-fixture.cjs:251-252 does. The dynamic import's registry entry is created only when its source arrives, so at src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1028 entry is null, none of the guards at lines 1021-1030 fire, and lines 1049-1051 call ensureRegistered and provideModule with the text's record. When the file's source then arrives the loader finds that entry and uses it: the fixture's own row records importInFlight: { compile: "text", import: "text", fileRan: false } (test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js:1364). On the base branch _compile threw SyntaxError: Unexpected keyword 'export' and p resolved to the file with fileRan: true. The mock.module and static-import guards do not cover a pending import() because neither path creates a registry entry before the fetch completes.

Verification: Acknowledged in diff: the PR description's "Known gap" section and the comment at test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js:1458-1460 state exactly this. src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1028-1030 getRegisteredMayBeNull(key, ...) returns null while the dynamic import's fetch is pending, so the rethrow() guard is skipped; lines 1048-1052 bind the handler text to the file's key.

[robobun]

This is the order in the "Known gap" section of the description. The two ways that this comment names are both covered there:

• To register the load when its fetch starts is a change in oven-sh/WebKit. It is built on a branch. The report in node:module: make module._compile() accept ES module text and a hashbang line #47519 (comment) says that it gives the wanted answer for this order and that it stops one compiled executable at an assertion.
• A table of loads in flight on the Bun side adds work to each import(), and by the description it sees 2 of the 10 places that start a load by name.

Which load keeps the name is a question for a maintainer in that comment. Until then the test an import() of the file that has started keeps the name of the file is marked as failing and holds the wanted answer, and the row importInFlight holds what happens today. This thread stays open for that decision.