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Problem

• bun test does not resolve a bare specifier from NODE_PATH: ResolveMessage: Cannot find module 'pkg-start'. bun run does. Macros and the dev server fail too.
• Resolver::init1 (src/resolver/resolver.rs:993) left the loader pointer None, and these callers never set it. Under bun run, a pool thread read the env map with no lock.

Fix

• Transpiler::run_env_loader hands the NODE_PATH of its loader to its resolver. The NODE_PATH step reads that copy, never the loader.
• Resolver::init1 takes the loader. The 11 hand copies and the Resolver.env_loader must be set before auto-install panic are deleted.
• Unchanged under bun test: vitest's own chai wins over a NODE_PATH chai, and a mock of a package in pnpm's hoist folder keeps its name as key.
• Verified: 26 new cases in four test files, 22 fail on main. Self-reviewed: 51 concerns raised, 49 addressed. Notes name the other 2.

Background

• DotEnv::Loader holds the environment of one Transpiler. NODE_PATH answers a bare import that misses every node_modules folder.
• A module mock is keyed by the resolved file, or by the name when nothing resolves: then it replaces every copy. pnpm's hoist folder is node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules.
• Considered one line in test_command.rs: it wires 1 of 12 sites.

Downsides

• pnpm bin shims export NODE_PATH, so bun test now resolves undeclared hoisted packages.
• With --no-env-file, a .env that a dev server loads later no longer gives NODE_PATH to require.
• +170 instructions per env load, +69 per VM resolve, +16 bytes per Resolver. A failed bare import in bun test: +18,944 per NODE_PATH directory.

Notes

No issue reports this. It was found beside #5630 (Module._initPaths), which this PR does not change. NODE_PATH under bun test never worked, so this is not a regression. bun build had the same gap: #20537, which #20576 closed with five hand copies.

The two parts of the diff.

• The fix for NODE_PATH is the copy. Transpiler::run_env_loader (src/bundler/transpiler.rs) reads NODE_PATH from its loader and calls Resolver::set_node_path. The NODE_PATH step of Resolver::load_node_modules reads self.node_path. The invariant: a resolver has NODE_PATH once its transpiler runs run_env_loader. configure_defines() calls it, and each transpiler that parses or bundles calls configure_defines().
• Resolver::init1 with the loader argument is a cleanup for auto-install. By itself it changes no behaviour now. The resolver only passes the pointer to the package manager. It deletes the 11 assignments X.resolver.env_loader = NonNull::new(X.env) (rustc rejected 12 lines with E0616 once the field was private), the fix-up in parseLockfile (install_binding.rs) that made the same copy when it was missing, and the .expect("Resolver.env_loader must be set before auto-install") in get_package_manager_for.
• The first push of this PR read the loader at resolve time through that pointer. A review showed that this spreads the unlocked pool-thread read from bun run to bun test, the dev server and Bun.Transpiler#transform. The copy replaces that read. The debug assertion of the first push compared the loader pointers of the transpiler and the resolver. It guarded that read, so it is gone.

Repro (fails on 1.4.2 and on main cee9dd9, passes on this branch):

mkdir -p /tmp/np/app /tmp/np/lib/pkg-start
echo 'module.exports = "start";' > /tmp/np/lib/pkg-start/index.js
echo '{"name":"app"}' > /tmp/np/app/package.json
echo 'test("NODE_PATH", () => { expect(require("pkg-start")).toBe("start"); });' > /tmp/np/app/a.test.js
cd /tmp/np/app && NODE_PATH=/tmp/np/lib bun test ./a.test.js

node --test (v26.3.0) resolves the same require. For import, Node does not read NODE_PATH: there the reference is bun run and docs/runtime/module-resolution.mdx.

Entry points that now read NODE_PATH. Each one built a transpiler and never made the hand copy.

• bun test: every resolve entry point, --isolate, --parallel workers, --preload, NODE_PATH from .env. bun test --aot: the build of a compiled run read NODE_PATH on main already, for the imports that it links. A name made at run time now resolves too. Two rules of this PR do not reach that build (see Not fixed here).
• A macro VM. bun build and Bun.build create one per parse thread. bun run and bun test create one when the module that calls the macro is not the entry module, because a pool thread transpiles it.
• The dev server of an HTML route (development: true), Bun.serve({ app }) and bun build --app. Framework::init_transpiler builds their graph transpilers.
• Bun.Transpiler: a macro specifier in transformSync and transform.
• Nothing observable: the debugger VM, the script runner, bun exec, completions, lifecycle scripts.

Why the copy is interned. A Transpiler is often torn down without Drop. VirtualMachine::destroy calls Transpiler::deinit, which frees a list of fields and leaves the resolver alone. The pool jobs of a VM and of Bun.Transpiler#transform work on ManuallyDrop bitwise copies. An owned field in Resolver needs a line in deinit, or it leaks once per Worker. An interned slice is Copy and needs no teardown. Resolver::intern_node_path is a deliberate copy of VirtualMachine::intern_cwd (#46021): one DirnameStore entry per distinct value, never freed, so a resolver copy on another thread can keep the slice. The two are not merged here: that puts process.chdir in this PR, with no test on the cwd interner.

Threads.

• Fixed: the NODE_PATH step. load_node_modules makes 0 calls into the env map (1 on main). set_node_path runs on the JS thread for the resolvers of a VM, and on a pool thread only for the resolver of the macro VM that the thread owns (gdb: thread and loader pointer for each call, under bun run, bun test, Bun.Transpiler#transform and a dev server).
• No test can fail on the race itself. The removed lookup frees nothing, so ASAN does not see it, and there is no TSAN lane. One case does separate the copy from the first push: "the .env that [serve.static] env loads gives NODE_PATH to the client bundle only".
• Not fixed: the same pool-thread job still reads state that the JS thread writes. Macro::init calls env.clone_loaded() on the loader of the VM, on main for each macro in a module that is not the entry module. A macro that only NODE_PATH resolves under bun test now reaches that call. Open PR macros: run every macro on one dedicated VM thread #40059 runs every macro on one VM thread and clones the env under a lock. resolver.opts.extra_cjs_extensions is the other read (open PR macros: resolve macro imports with a resolver for Bun, so the "macro" export condition applies #46802 touches it).

Behaviour changes with NODE_PATH set. Except for the last two, each is what bun run, bun build or a production HTML bundle do today.

• mock.module("pkg") takes the resolved file as its key when pkg resolves, and the bare name when it does not. On main the VM of bun test did not read NODE_PATH, so a name that only NODE_PATH resolves had the name key there. bun run and Workers read NODE_PATH on main and had the file key. Now:
  • bun run and Workers: no change.
  • bun test, the package is in a hoist folder (a node_modules folder inside another one: node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules and every other entry of a pnpm shim): the key stays the name, and every importer of the name gets the mock. The mock code resolves its key in ResolveMode::ModuleMock, and there _resolve reports such a package as not found (the resolver sets IS_FROM_HOIST_FOLDER from the NODE_PATH entry). With the file as the key, a workspace with a dual package gave {"test":"mocked","dependent":"real esm"} through the cross-env shim of pnpm 9.15.9 and 12.18.0: the NODE_PATH step reads main and not exports (open PR resolver: read package.json exports for a package found through NODE_PATH #47500), and the dependent imports the exports target. Now both print mocked, as 1.4.2 does. The limits of a name key stay: vi.mock(name, importOriginal => ...) and jest.mock(name) with no factory fail with ENOENT reading "<name>", as on main. A static import of the package now resolves, and one that ran before the mock keeps the real binding. jest.requireActual(name) now works, and loads the file beside the mock. A package that the project declares resolves through node_modules and has the file key.
  • bun test, any other NODE_PATH folder (NODE_PATH=src, /deps/node_modules, the global folder of npm): the key is the file, as for any module that resolves. The mock patches a module that the test file imported before, and importOriginal and a jest.mock with no factory work. A dependent with its own nested copy keeps the real module. Nothing in such a folder resolved under bun test on main, so a suite that passes there does not depend on the name key, unless it mocks every such import.
• pnpm bin shims set NODE_PATH to node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules and the package's own folders (read from a pnpm 12.16.1 shim). bun test started through a shim, for example cross-env TZ=UTC bun test or node_modules/.bin/bun when bun is a devDependency, now resolves hoisted packages that the project does not declare. extendNodePath: false turns the export off.
• import { assert } from "vitest" imports "chai" (bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833). When the project has no chai, bun test takes the chai next to vitest, after the resolver reports NotFound. A hoisted chai in NODE_PATH would answer first, and it can be another major. The resolver now marks a result that the NODE_PATH step found, and for such a result the VM asks for the chai next to vitest first. So this case does not change. The chai is tried before the mock rule, so a mock of "chai" keeps its file key.
• A require in a try block that does not resolve is left to throw at run time. In a dev server bundle it now resolves when NODE_PATH has the package, and the package is bundled. A package that cannot be bundled (one that requires a missing .node file) turns a 200 into a 500.
• With NODE_PATH only in .env, a development: true HTML route goes from a build failure (500) to 200. development: false was 200 before.
• Under bun test, a Worker preload: ["setup.js"] is looked up as a package first. A setup.js in a NODE_PATH directory now wins over ./setup.js.
• With NODE_PATH only in .env, bun build resolves a bare import inside a macro module and not in the bundle. The macro VM loads .env. A build without --env does not.
• bun test --coverage counts a file that NODE_PATH resolves outside node_modules. With coverageThreshold = 0.9, a test that passes and has a handled require of such a package went from exit 0 to exit 1.
• A resolver inside bun test now reads the NODE_PATH of the process that runs the tests.
• vi.mock("pkg") with no factory took <cwd>/__mocks__/pkg.js when pkg did not resolve. A package that NODE_PATH finds outside node_modules is a project file, so the mock file is now looked for beside it. For a package in a node_modules folder the rule does not change. On main a workspace package that node_modules links to follows the same rule (findManualModuleMock).
• bun run: a resolver keeps the NODE_PATH that its own transpiler loaded. The dev server transpilers share the loader of the VM, and [serve.static] env in bunfig makes the one for the client bundle load .env, also under --no-env-file or --env-file=x. On 1.4.2 and main, a require in the VM then resolved from the NODE_PATH of that .env: after Bun.serve(), not before. Now it does not, before or after. process.env.NODE_PATH still shows the value. With no flag the VM loads .env itself and nothing changes. If the late read is wanted, the loader can publish NODE_PATH in a cell at the end of each load.

Measurements. Release builds of main 2596ac5 and of this branch at 573d448a07, linux-x64. The head of this PR differs from that commit in two comments, one member of a C++ enum, and the merges of main 98cda0d and 89452d2. It is not measured again. Tools: size, nm, objdump, gdb. Not installed: bloaty, strace, perf, valgrind.

What	main	PR
.text / .rodata / .data bytes	108,257,833 / 26,780,652 / 72,976	108,259,113 / 26,780,652 / 73,040
run_env_loader, first call, with callees: NODE_PATH unset / set	19,729 / 20,134	19,899 / 20,780
VirtualMachine::_resolve, own instructions, one require of a package in node_modules	233	245
The same require, _resolve with callees	21,659	21,728
One require that NODE_PATH answers under bun run: a folder outside node_modules / a hoist folder	32,347 / 38,438	32,297 / 38,919
The key of mock.module("pkg"), pkg in node_modules, NODE_PATH unset / set	23,023 / 23,023	23,090 / 23,090
The key of mock.module("pkg") under bun test, pkg only in a hoist folder	62,230	62,830
One failed require under bun test, _resolve with callees: NODE_PATH unset / 1 directory	42,576 / 42,569	42,622 / 61,513

The counts are gdb single steps of the first such call in a process, callees included unless the row says own, without the body of clock_gettime. The key of a mock is one call of Bun__resolveSyncWithSourceIfExists. A module mock adds no resolve: the rule is a test of two flags and one option in the branch that a NODE_PATH answer takes in _resolve. The hoist folder flag costs a suffix compare on the NODE_PATH entry for each answer of the NODE_PATH step, and a scan of the entry when it ends in node_modules.

Measured before the merge of main, on release builds of main cee9dd9 and this branch at 571896e, and not measured again:

What	main	PR
Resolver.env_loader must be set before auto-install in the binary	1	0
size_of Resolver / Transpiler (release)	1,216 / 3,040	1,232 / 3,056
Per env load, NODE_PATH set: first in the process / each later transpiler	0	664 / 394
Allocations of bun -e 0, NODE_PATH unset / set	4,499 / 4,501	4,499 / 4,503
Syscalls of bun -e 0 (all / file)	262 / 52	262 / 52
Failed bare import, NODE_PATH unset, per pass: bun test / bun run	3 / 119	3 / 3
Failed bare import, 1 NODE_PATH directory: bun test / bun run	3 / 5,977	5,821 / 5,821
Failed bare import, 6 NODE_PATH directories: bun test / bun run	3 / 35,022	34,866 / 34,866
openat on NODE_PATH paths, one failed require: bun test / bun run	0 / 4	4 / 4
NODE_PATH step reached per 1,000 successful resolves	0	0
Env-map lookups of the NODE_PATH step on a pool thread: bun run / bun test / transform / dev server	1 / 0 / 0 / 0	0 / 0 / 0 / 0

In this table a failed bare import is one pass over the NODE_PATH step, and a failed resolve makes two passes or more. The allocations with NODE_PATH set are the intern cache, once per process.

Transpiler::init callers and the loader each one passes. The package manager singleton keeps the loader of the first resolver that creates it (get_package_manager_for). load_node_modules creates it only where opts.global_cache is enabled.

Site	Loader	opts.global_cache	Hand copy on main
jsc_hooks.rs (every VM)	main VM: process loader. bun test: the command's. Worker, macro VM, debugger VM: their own copy	enabled only by bun run, the REPL, bun build --app	run, REPL, lint, Worker, bun build --app: yes. test, macro VM, debugger VM: no
bake/config/transpiler.rs (dev server, bun build --app graphs)	process loader	disabled	no
api/JSTranspiler.rs	the calling VM's	disabled	no
api/js_bundle_completion_task.rs (Bun.build)	the build's copy	disabled	yes
cli/build_command.rs, compile_command/configuration.rs	process loader	disabled	yes
cli/test/ChangedFilesFilter.rs	the test VM's	disabled	yes
cli/run_command.rs (scripts, .sh entry, completions), cli/exec_command.rs, install/lib.rs	the caller's or the process loader	disabled, or set and never used to install	no
bundler/aot/services.rs, bundler/aot/testing.rs	process loader, or a local of the caller	disabled	no

get_package_manager also runs without that gate, from VirtualMachine::package_manager: the pending-install machinery, and the parseLockfile test helper. A Worker that calls parseLockfile hands its own loader to the singleton. That is the same on main, where the Worker had made the hand copy.

Related open PRs.

• node:module: make Module._initPaths() give the NODE_PATH directories to the resolver #47589, resolver: read package.json exports for a package found through NODE_PATH #47500, resolver: treat require.resolve paths entries as search starts only #47184 and node:module: look up each paths entry of Module._findPath as a directory #47354 read NODE_PATH through the loader, at the lines this PR changes or in a new function. After this PR they read Resolver.node_path. node:module: make Module._initPaths() give the NODE_PATH directories to the resolver #47589 adds a list to the resolver for Module._initPaths(), which the VM owns and replaces at run time. The copy of this PR is fixed after the env load, and pool threads read it.
• macros: run every macro on one dedicated VM thread #40059 and macros: resolve macro imports with a resolver for Bun, so the "macro" export condition applies #46802: see Threads.
• dotenv: one process flag makes Bun.build, macros and HTML routes follow --no-env-file #45445 makes Bun.build, macros and HTML routes follow --no-env-file. That is the .env load behind the last behaviour change.
• cli: remove unsafe from bun run / bun test / --filter and the other CLI commands #40242 converts the uses of transpiler.env to env() and env_mut().

Not fixed here. Each is unchanged by this PR.

• A Worker's env option does not feed its resolver. env: { NODE_PATH } alone does not resolve, and env: {} still resolves from the NODE_PATH of the process.
• A dev server reads the process loader (Framework::init_transpiler passes None), also when a Worker hosts it. It also loads .env into that loader (dotenv: one process flag makes Bun.build, macros and HTML routes follow --no-env-file #45445).
• The pool-thread reads in Threads.
• A bare-looking entry name such as a Worker preload: ["setup.js"] prefers a NODE_PATH file over ./setup.js.
• bun build --app with NODE_PATH only in .env does not resolve.
• RunCommand::wire_transpiler_from_ctx copies the install and macro options of the CLI into the VM's transpiler by hand. bun test does not call it (Make --no-macros a switch of the process #45937 is for --no-macros).
• Resolver.opts is a hand-synced subset of the bundle options.
• Resolver.standalone_module_graph starts as None and has two hand writers.
• src/bundler/aot/mod.rs, aot/testing.rs and code_resolver_testing.rs read NODE_PATH from a loader themselves.
• bun test --aot resolves the imports of a compiled file when it builds (src/aot/load/host.rs, src/bundler/aot/services.rs). There a chai in NODE_PATH comes before the chai next to vitest, and a mock whose key is a name does not reach an importer that the build linked to the file. A release build of main does the same for the chai. The AOT nets run the bun test rows of resolve.test.ts with --aot, and test/aot/runner-suites.programs.txt and runner-suites.known.txt now list these two tests with the reason.
• The NODE_PATH step reads main and not exports (open PR resolver: read package.json exports for a package found through NODE_PATH #47500).

Self-review items that are not done.

• A second key for a package in a hoist folder: the file as the key, and the name as an alias that leads to it. Then importOriginal and the patch of an imported binding also work there. It needs a new table in the module mock code (BunPlugin.cpp), with its own rules for unmock, resetModules and the end of a test file.
• One interner for intern_node_path and VirtualMachine::intern_cwd (see above).

Tests. New cases, all with an explicit NODE_PATH. 26 cases, 22 fail on main. The other 4 pin what main does.

• test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts (10, 9 fail on main): bun test with import, require, import(), require.resolve, Bun.resolveSync, import.meta.resolve. --isolate with two files. --parallel=2. --preload of a package. NODE_PATH from .env. mock.module of a package with a second copy nested in a dependent, where the NODE_PATH folder is not a hoist folder (the mock replaces the file). mock.module in the layout of pnpm: a package of the workspace with main and exports, linked into the hoist folder and into a dependent by a junction, and a declared package beside it. Under bun test the mock replaces every copy and patches the declared package. Under bun run it replaces the file. A Worker with a preload, compared with bun run. bun test in a cwd that it cannot list (the env load returns early there). The chai next to vitest against a chai in the hoist folder, as an import and as vi.mock("chai", importOriginal => ...) (passes on main).
• test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts (9, 8 fail on main): bun build, bun build with NODE_PATH in .env, Bun.build, bun run and bun test with the macro's caller in an imported module, bun test with a macro that is a package, Bun.Transpiler#transformSync, Bun.Transpiler#transform. bun build with a macro that is a package (passes on main: it guards the copy that a parse thread of the bundler gets).
• test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html.test.ts (5, 3 fail on main): an HTML route with an import, a handled require and a macro that is a package, for development: true and false and for NODE_PATH from the process and from .env (the two false rows pass on main). The .env that only the client bundle loads.
• test/bake/app-options.test.ts (2, both fail on main): Bun.serve({ app }) and bun build --app with the package in the server graph, the SSR graph, the client entry and a macro. The bun build --app case turns LeakSanitizer off: that command exits with its graph transpilers alive, for any app.
• src/resolver/resolver.rs: a unit test of the interner and one of the hoist folder rule (cargo test -p bun_resolver). The first fails when the lookup of the cache is removed.

With a release build of main (2596ac5) the four files have 9, 8, 3 and 2 failures, the new cases only. With this branch they pass on the release build and on the ASAN debug build. On the first push (39eaac7) 2 of the first 25 fail: the chai order and the .env that only the client bundle loads. Without the mock rule the hoist folder case fails: the dependent gets esm.

Also run on debug builds of this branch: test/js/bun/test/vitest-flavor.test.ts, test/cli/run/env.test.ts, no-envfile.test.ts, run-process-env.test.ts, run-autoinstall*.test.ts, autoinstall-cached-manifest.test.ts, run_command.test.ts, multi-run.test.ts, filter-workspace.test.ts, test/cli/install/bad-workspace.test.ts, migrate-bun-lockb-v2.test.ts, test/js/web/workers/worker.test.ts, test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_regressions.test.ts, test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js, scope-mismatch-panic.test.ts, test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts, parallel.test.ts, test-changed.test.ts, test-environment.test.ts, test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts, esm.test.ts. Some cases hit the 5 s limit on the debug build of this machine: two terminate() cases of worker.test.ts, one case of run-autoinstall.test.ts, the compiled-executable Worker case of env.test.ts, the real jsdom and happy-dom cases of test-environment.test.ts, no other builtin module patches a global class when it loads, and --parallel: each worker has a unique JEST_WORKER_ID. A debug build of main times out on the same worker and auto-install cases, and interleaved runs of the two debug builds give the same times (96 Workers: 4.1 to 5.4 s on main, 3.5 to 5.3 s here). Release builds of main and of this branch pass worker.test.ts (43), run-autoinstall.test.ts (300), vitest-flavor.test.ts (191) and test-environment.test.ts (113) in full. For test-environment.test.ts that is 7 of 8 runs on this branch: one run had 20 failures, which 7 later runs did not repeat. cargo check of bun_bundler passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin.

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no test proof · iteration 4 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts

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Reproduced on Bun 1.4.2 and on main (cee9dd9), Linux x64:

mkdir -p /tmp/np/app /tmp/np/lib/pkg-start
echo 'module.exports = "start";' > /tmp/np/lib/pkg-start/index.js
echo '{"name":"app"}' > /tmp/np/app/package.json
echo 'test("NODE_PATH", () => { expect(require("pkg-start")).toBe("start"); });' > /tmp/np/app/a.test.js
echo 'console.log(require("pkg-start"))' > /tmp/np/app/run.cjs
cd /tmp/np/app
NODE_PATH=/tmp/np/lib bun --no-install run.cjs   # start
NODE_PATH=/tmp/np/lib bun test ./a.test.js       # ResolveMessage: Cannot find module 'pkg-start'

With this branch bun test prints 1 pass. PR: #47614

CI: build #139847 on 3f3e451 has no failed test job. 184 of 188 jobs passed. The other 4 are :darwin: any x64 - test-bun. No agent takes them: they expire before they start, Buildkite retries them, and each expiry sets the buildkite/bun status to failing. The builds of other pull requests show the same 4 jobs (139864, 139861, 139867).

Nine test files failed once and then passed, on a retry or alone. None of the failing cases is one that this PR adds or changes. One of the nine is a file that this PR touches: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html.test.ts. The case is requests while a dev server bundle is in flight > rebuild that fails to parse an import, and a request for a failed route. The same case fails now and then on main (builds 138109 and 137628). scripts/runner.node.ts runs a test file that a PR modifies by itself, and not in a parallel bucket. That is the likely reason why the case fails more often in the builds of this PR.

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Walkthrough

The resolver now requires a non-null environment-loader pointer and stores an interned NODE_PATH snapshot. Transpiler environment loading updates that snapshot. Resolution results identify NODE_PATH matches, and tests cover resolution across build, server, macro, test, and worker contexts.

Changes

NODE_PATH resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolver state and NODE_PATH results src/resolver/resolver.rs, src/resolver/result.rs	Resolver requires a non-null environment-loader pointer and stores an interned NODE_PATH snapshot. Resolution results identify NODE_PATH and hoist-folder matches.
Environment loading and resolver setup src/bundler/transpiler.rs, src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, src/install/..., src/install_jsc/install_binding.rs, src/jsc/web_worker.rs, src/runtime/api/..., src/runtime/bake/production/mod.rs, src/runtime/cli/...	Transpiler environment loading updates the resolver’s NODE_PATH, including when loading returns an error. Initialization passes a validated loader pointer. Setup paths no longer replace the resolver’s environment-loader pointer with the transpiler’s pointer.
Module-mock resolution behavior src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs, src/jsc/bindings/BunPlugin.cpp	ResolveMode adds ModuleMock. The VM applies the Vitest-adjacent chai lookup for NODE_PATH results and handles hoist-folder results in module-mock resolution.
NODE_PATH runtime coverage test/bake/app-options.test.ts, test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html.test.ts, test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts, test/aot/runner-suites.*.txt	Tests cover NODE_PATH resolution in app graphs, macro workflows, HTML-route bundles, bun test, and Workers. They check resolution precedence, module mocks, environment configuration, and resolution from an unlistable working directory.

Suggested reviewers: alii

Merge Risk: Low · previous review df499

The current module-mock path behaves correctly. The enum mismatch is worth aligning, but does not block merging. The other previously raised concerns do not establish a material new failure from this change.

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Review comments at @src/resolver/resolver.rs:
- Line 3139: Update the NODE_PATH lookup flow in load_node_modules to read and
enforce the package exports map before returning a matching file, so subpaths
excluded by exports are not resolved.

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• src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs
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• src/install_jsc/install_binding.rs
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• src/resolver/resolver.rs
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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked for stale call sites: Resolver::init1 has exactly one caller left (Transpiler::init_in_place) and no resolver.env_loader = ... assignment survives anywhere in src/, so the signature change is fully propagated. I also grepped for writes to transpiler.env after init and found none in this tree, so the new debug_assert_resolver_shares_env cannot trip on this branch on its own; the .expect on the NonNull in init_in_place is provable since all three arms of the env_loader match yield a non-null pointer.

Extended reasoning...

The PR makes Resolver.env_loader a required private NonNull<DotEnv::Loader> passed through Resolver::init1, deletes eleven hand-copied assignments across CLI, worker, bake and install code, and adds subprocess tests for NODE_PATH resolution in bun test, macros, dev server and HTML routes. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface, but it widens which threads read the VM env map, which is what the inline findings cover. The note here only records the sibling-site and reassignment checks that were ruled out.

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• 🔴 src/resolver/resolver.rs:3139 — Users of bun test and Bun.Transpiler#transform can now get a cross-thread data race on the JS thread's env map, which t…

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test/bake/app-options.test.ts: 1

390-391: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover client-graph resolution in the dev-server case.

The dev-server branch fetches only the server-rendered page and checks its text. The client.ts bundle compiles only when a request reaches its /_bun/client/route-<hex>.js route. A failure to resolve dep in the client graph would therefore leave this case passing. The test title says it covers every graph, so the title overstates the check.

The fixture page does not link to the client script, so the test cannot fetch it from the page as written. Pass the route's clientId into the page, or have the test read it from the render arguments. Then fetch that client script and assert that its body contains from NODE_PATH.

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Review comment at @test/bake/app-options.test.ts around lines 390 - 391:
Update the dev-server case in the test to exercise the client graph, not just
the server-rendered page: obtain the route’s clientId from the page or render
arguments, request its /_bun/client/route-<hex>.js bundle, and assert the
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Review comments at @src/resolver/resolver.rs:
- Around line 947-954: Change set_node_path so interned NODE_PATH values are
retained only while resolvers use them; update how resolver copies share values
across threads to keep active values safe and release each value when its last
resolver is done.
- Line 986: Ensure the process-wide PackageManager does not retain the
Worker-owned env_loader after that Worker shuts down. Change the loader
ownership or lifetime so the singleton uses a loader that outlives every Worker,
preserving access for env() and its callers rather than copying a fixed set of
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Review comments at @test/bake/app-options.test.ts:
- Around line 390-391: Update the dev-server case in the test to exercise the
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[robobun]

On the nitpick for test/bake/app-options.test.ts (client graph in the dev-server case): the case already fails when the client graph cannot resolve the package. The dev server bundles the client entry point with the route on the first page request, and a failure there fails the page.

Checked on this branch with client.ts changed to import a package that exists nowhere, 5 of 5 runs:

error: Could not resolve: "dep-that-is-nowhere". Maybe you need to "bun install"?
    at client.ts:1:21
500 <!doctype html> ... <title>Bun - Build Failed</title>

On main the same case fails with Could not resolve: "dep" at client.ts:1:21 among its errors. So the title is accurate and the test stays as it is.

[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the merge of main (conflicts in src/bundler/transpiler.rs and src/resolver/result.rs): Resolver::init1 still has exactly one caller and no resolver.env_loader = ... hand copy came back from upstream, and IS_FROM_NODE_PATH = 1 << 4 does not collide with any flag bit now in ResultFlags. The intern_node_path cache takes the mutex on every access and appends to DirnameStore, which is never freed, so the Interned copied by for_worker stays valid off-thread. Not run here: cargo check/rust:check-all and the four test files.

Extended reasoning...

This push is a merge of origin/main (the AOT compiler landing) into the branch; the branch itself makes the resolver's DotEnv loader a required back-reference and snapshots NODE_PATH into an interned 'static slice at run_env_loader time. No security-sensitive surface is touched. Two confirmed findings are posted inline, so human review is already indicated; this note only records what else was examined after the merge.

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- Around line 4274-4275: Update the C++ Zig::BunPlugin::OnResolve::Asker enum to
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[claude]

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 whether snapshotting NODE_PATH at run_env_loader regresses bun run scripts that assign process.env.NODE_PATH at runtime before a require() — it does not: Bun__setEnvValue (src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs:1592) only writes proxy keys into the loader map, so the base branch never saw a runtime NODE_PATH change either. No build or test was run in this review; the cfg!(windows) branches in is_hoist_folder are plain runtime conditionals, so they are type-checked on every target.

Extended reasoning...

The change moves NODE_PATH from a per-resolve env-map read to an interned snapshot taken by Transpiler::run_env_loader, makes Resolver::init1 take the env loader, and adds ResolveMode::ModuleMock plus IS_FROM_NODE_PATH/IS_FROM_HOIST_FOLDER flags for mock keying under bun test. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. Three inline findings were posted; this note only records one additional candidate ruled out by reading Bun__setEnvValue, which gates its env-map write on the proxy-key slot table.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/resolver/resolver.rs — nit: the # Safety doc of the unsafe Resolver::for_worker now names a function this diff deletes. src/resolver/resolver.rs:608-609 says "env_loader() returns &'a Loader and the caller picks 'a", but the env_loader() accessor was removed and the only remaining reader of the copied env_loader pointer is get_package_manager_for at resolver.rs:849. Fix: restate the contract in terms of what still reads the pointer (auto-install receives from.env_loader, which must outlive 'a), matching the new doc on init1 at resolver.rs:970.

  Why this was flagged

  The diff deletes pub(crate) fn env_loader(&self) -> Option<&'a DotEnv::Loader> from Resolver (old resolver.rs:928-936) and makes the field a plain NonNull<DotEnv::Loader> at src/resolver/resolver.rs:503. The # Safety section of pub unsafe fn for_worker at src/resolver/resolver.rs:607-609 still justifies the lifetime requirement by that accessor: "env_loader() returns &'a Loader and the caller picks 'a". After the merge the sentence refers to nothing in the crate; the live consumer of the copied pointer is the self.env_loader argument to __bun_resolver_init_package_manager at resolver.rs:849. On the base branch the comment was accurate. No runtime behaviour differs; the SAFETY contract of an unsafe fn is misdocumented, which the review rules treat as a correctness issue for SAFETY comments.

  Verification: nit. Triggering condition: anyone reading the # Safety contract of Resolver::for_worker after this merge. The diff deletes pub(crate) fn env_loader(&self) -> Option<&'a DotEnv::Loader>. The unsafe fn's doc at src/resolver/resolver.rs:607-609 still reads "env_loader() returns &'a Loader and the caller picks 'a: the loader that from.env_loader points to must outlive 'a."

[robobun]

The # Safety section of Resolver::for_worker is fixed in d68f3b6. It now names auto-install, which reads the copied env_loader pointer.

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