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markdown: skip front matter from the parser start, and add Bun.markdown.frontmatter() - #47980
Bun.markdown, bun file.md and .md imports render front matter as Markdown: ---\ntitle: Hello\n--- gives <hr /> and <h2>title: Hello</h2>.
Parser::process_doc starts at byte 0 (src/md/blocks.rs:18). No API reads the block.
Fix
Parser::init starts the parse behind a byte order mark and the block (new frontmatter option, default on). Offsets stay absolute. bun lint shares the detector.
Bun.markdown.frontmatter(input) returns {data, content} and runs the Bun.YAML.parse or Bun.TOML.parse code on the block only.
Verified: test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts (185 of 256 new tests fail on main). Also the lint, format, YAML, TOML and trim suites.
Self-reviewed: 59 concerns raised, 55 addressed. Not done (reasons in Notes): the parser start as its own PR, a caller-supplied start for bun fmt, two nits.
Background
Front matter: metadata between two --- (YAML) or +++ (TOML) lines at a document's start. ... also ends a --- block.
A renderer keeps the whole input and reads the code language at an offset. Main parses a slice behind a byte order mark, so render() reports ~~~js for js.
Default on changes each input that starts with a closed --- or +++ block: CommonMark examples 96 and 98, a chat message. frontmatter: false restores it.
html() without a fence: +38.7 instructions per call (23,864.6 to 23,903.3), +120 with an options object. Binary: +12,288 bytes.
bun lint with frontmatter: "yaml": +0.09% instructions. html() of 3 MB with an unclosed fence: +3.4%.
Notes
This replaces #36922. The stale bot closed that PR on 2026-11-05. The option name, the result shape, most of the rule and many tests come from it. The mechanism is new, and it answers the review comments there. #26605 is from @phenomen.
With frontmatter: false the PR build gives what main gives: 827 spec examples as string, CRLF string and Buffer, through the four renderers, 9,924 cases, 0 differences. With the default, 24 differ: examples 96 and 98.
A ... line ends a --- block. Bun.markdown: add front matter support #36922 did not have this. ... is the YAML document end marker, and Pandoc, Jekyll and pulldown-cmark end the block there. Without it, html() of test/js/bun/md/spec.txt loses lines 1 to 881, because its Pandoc header ends with .... A test pins that file. +++ blocks and bun lint do not take ....
If the parser start must be its own PR: the hunks are Parser::doc_start, blocks.rs:18, the two entry points in parser.rs and the removal of helpers::skip_utf8_bom. They fit markdown: report fenced code to a renderer with its info string, not an offset into the source #45508 as the rework that its body offers. The self-review preferred this order. It is not done here, because it is a maintainer's choice between two open PRs.
The size limit (MAX_INPUT_LEN) now counts the mark and the block, because offsets are absolute.
r3725104766, r3725105754 "please use our string helpers for this": the detector searches with strings::index_of_any_t, strings::index_of_scalar and a new strings::trim_left_t. It has no byte loop of its own.
r3725109653 "should we only allow the utf8 BOM or all BOMs or none?": UTF-8 only. The U+FEFF of a string reaches the parser as these three bytes, and a buffer is read as UTF-8. The parser skipped this mark before (helpers::skip_utf8_bom, now strings::without_utf8_bom).
r3725114138 "looping over the source twice? ... a new setting in our YAML/TOML parsers that stop the parse gracefully at the next doc end mark": not built. The block now ends where a YAML document ends (a --- or ... line), and one scan finds that line.
The renderers must find the end without a YAML or TOML parser. TOML has no end mark.
frontmatter() with a 200-byte block costs 48,886 instructions. Bun.YAML.parse of the same 200 bytes costs 46,795. The 2,092 between them are the scan, the substring and the result object.
Without a closing line the parser must read the Markdown. On a 3 MB document the scan is 8.74 M instructions. Bun.YAML.parse of that text is 313.2 M, and it succeeds: prose is one YAML scalar.
r3725116566 "i don't think this function should exist. please reuse our code, or adjust it a bit so it's reusable", r3725116987 "without trading perf": the helper is gone. yaml_object::parse_to_values and toml_object::parse_text are the code of Bun.YAML.parse and Bun.TOML.parse with one more argument, a closure that sees the root. define_pending is the loop that Bun.YAML.parse had.
Each caller has its own copy of the parse. Bun.YAML.parse: 14,813.7 on main and 14,814.3 to 14,817.2 in three of five runs on the PR (the two others read 14,962, a step that main shows in other passes too). Bun.TOML.parse: 10,003.3 to 10,002.9. The thunk of Bun.TOML.parse is 0x586 bytes on both builds.
With one shared copy of the TOML parse, Bun.TOML.parse costs 13 to 17 instructions more (measured on two builds of that variant). That is why TOML takes the closure too, though a TOML root is always a table. This is one of the two nits that are not done: the review asked to drop the argument.
The rule
The opening fence is the first line. A UTF-8 byte order mark can come before it.
A fence is exactly three - or three +, then spaces or tabs. ---yaml and ---- do not open.
The line behind the opening fence is not blank, or it is the closing fence.
A later line ends the block: the same fence, or ... for ---.
bun lint passes one marker, allows a blank first line and takes no ... (micromark's rule). Old and new lint detector: 10,454,640 comparisons, 0 differences, in a harness outside the tree. test/cli/lint/js-parsers.test.ts pins the three switches.
bun fmt keeps Prettier's rule (src/format/front_matter.rs) on purpose: a language behind the fence, a blank first line, text behind the closing fence, and ... only when no later line starts with ---. The two files name each other.
What a caller can write today. This function runs on 1.4.3. On 248,368 generated strings it gives what Bun.markdown.frontmatter() gives.
functionfrontmatter(text){constlines=text.replace(/^\uFEFF/,"").split(/(?<=\r\n|\r(?!\n)|\n)/);constfence=/^(---|\+\+\+)[\t]*[\r\n]*$/.exec(lines[0]??"")?.[1];constblank=line=>/^[\t]*[\r\n]*$/.test(line);constends=line=>blank(line.slice(3))&&(line.startsWith(fence)||(fence==="---"&&line.startsWith("...")));constend=fence ? lines.findIndex((line,i)=>i>0&&ends(line)) : -1;if(end<1||(end>1&&blank(lines[1])))return{data: null,content: text};constmetadata=lines.slice(1,end).join("");constdata=(fence==="---" ? Bun.YAML.parse(metadata) : Bun.TOML.parse(metadata))??{};if(typeofdata!=="object"||Array.isArray(data))thrownewSyntaxError("YAML front matter must be a mapping");return{ data,content: lines.slice(end+1).join("")};}
Alone it changes none of bun file.md, a .md import or a bundled .md file. A plugin reaches the last two (the docs now show one). Nothing in userland reaches bun file.md.
It splits the whole document. frontmatter() scans the block only, and content shares the characters of the input string.
The API and the skip share only bun_md::front_matter::detect. If review of the API stalls, the skip can land alone at that seam.
Measurements. Release LTO builds of main b1007f1 and of this PR. User-space instructions from a perf_event_open counter. Per call is the slope between N and 2N calls, median of 5 runs, with BUN_JSC_useConcurrentJIT=0. The document is the small one of bench/snippets/markdown.mjs.
Case
main
PR
Delta
html(doc)
23,864.6
23,903.3
+38.7
html(doc, {})
25,754.4
25,874.3
+119.9
html(doc, { frontmatter: false })
25,753.4
25,937.1
+183.6
html(bytes)
23,776.0
23,821.8
+45.8
render(doc, callbacks)
30,479.5
30,488.8
+9.3
ansi(doc)
43,349.8
43,406.0
+56.2
react(doc)
43,820.5
43,590.5
inside the spread (1,833 to 2,289)
Bun.YAML.parse, 3 lines
14,813.7
14,817.2
+3.6 (two of the five PR runs read 14,962)
Bun.TOML.parse, 3 lines
10,003.3
10,002.9
-0.4
Bun.YAML.parse, 31 lines
112,731.2
112,704.7
inside the spread (97 to 109)
Bun.TOML.parse, 29 lines
72,805.5
72,818.7
inside the spread (188 to 207)
html(), 3 MB, --- and text, no closing line
186.99 M
193.44 M
+6.45 M (+3.4%)
the same with frontmatter: false
186.99 M
187.14 M
+0.08%
bun -e 0
3,643,807
3,643,588
inside the spread (25,767 to 34,625)
bun plain.md
455,897
456,015
+118
bun post.md (with a block)
472,396
454,196
-18,200
bun fmt --check, 1,407 docs files
1,237.03 M
1,237.15 M
+0.010%, inside the spread
bun lint, same files, frontmatter: "yaml"
555.51 M
556.01 M
+0.090%
bun lint, same files, no front matter option
699.92 M
700.08 M
+0.023%
The spread of the five runs is 1.4 to 12 instructions in the html, render and ansi rows. Two rows have one run on main that is 45 and 85 instructions off. The median drops it.
One more option costs each call with an options object about 80 instructions: the generated dictionary reads one more member.
bun lint without the option does not run the detector. Its +0.023% is the floor between the two builds.
html(block + doc) against html(doc) on the PR build: +1,075 instructions for a 200-byte block. The cost does not grow with the body.
frontmatter() with a 200-byte YAML block: 48,886 (1 KB body) and 48,999 (1 MB body) for an 8-bit string, 50,306 and 50,462 for a 16-bit string. A buffer is decoded: 48,626 and 197,064.
frontmatter() with a TOML block: 28,377. Bun.TOML.parse of that block: 25,991. Without a block: 569 instructions and 0 allocation calls.
Allocation calls per call (debug build, gdb hit counts on the malloc interceptors and mi_*, so the inlined allocations of JavaScriptCore are not counted): Bun.YAML.parse(metadata) 26.03, frontmatter() 26.03 for an 8-bit string or a buffer and 27.03 for a 16-bit string (the UTF-8 copy of the block). TOML: 27.03 and 27.03. html(): 22 with and without a block.
JS cells kept per call: Bun.YAML.parse(metadata) 12, frontmatter() 14 (the result and content). Without a block: 2.
content of a string input shares the characters of that string, so it keeps the whole input alive, as String.prototype.slice does. A short content (up to 12 characters, or 6 in a 16-bit string) is a copy.
bun post.md and bun plain.md: 183 syscall stops in gdb on both builds.
Per process: one host function more (Bun.markdown.frontmatter), one result dictionary, and one member in three option dictionaries. No startup work: bun -e 0 is inside the spread.
bun build --compile --aot --trim of a program that uses html() and render() only: 26,383,368 to 26,403,720 bytes (+20,352). It has no YAML or TOML code. The front matter program of trim-by-use is 28,014,152 bytes and runs.
perf, valgrind, strace and bloaty are not on the machine. The counter, gdb, size and readelf stand in for them.
Tests
md-edge-cases.test.ts, front matter: 14 blocks and 14 starts that are no block, through the four renderers and through frontmatter(), as 8-bit string, 16-bit string and bytes. Each block before each of the 827 spec examples (render() and react() take every seventh). A byte order mark before each example, with and without the option. spec.txt itself. The language behind a mark. The reference link budget.
frontmatter(): shapes, errors equal to those of Bun.YAML.parse and Bun.TOML.parse, a key that is a sequence, and a garbage collection while values wait for such a key. That last test fails with ASSERTION FAILED: decontaminate() when define_pending runs outside the roots (checked once by moving the call, before the test got its last two additions). define_pending now takes the roots as an argument, so that move does not compile. The frontmatter() tests also pass with BUN_JSC_slowPathAllocsBetweenGCs=3 BUN_JSC_useZombieMode=1 and with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1.
md-spec.test.ts: each example with frontmatter: false against the spec, and examples 96 and 98 against their new output.
markdown-entrypoint.test.ts: bun file.md skips the block, does not fetch an image that the block names, and colors code behind a mark. runMd() now keeps the first exit code that is not 0, so a test with several runs checks each.
compile-trim-remove.test.ts: in an executable without yaml or toml (compile.trim.remove), frontmatter() of a block in that format throws ERR_FEATURE_REMOVED, and the other format and the renderers work. Before the fix for it the process exited with code 70.
bundler_loader.test.ts, the import test in md-edge-cases.test.ts, two trim-by-use programs, and the type fixture.
Fail before: on main, 185 of the 256 new tests in md-edge-cases.test.ts fail, the 2 changed examples in md-spec.test.ts, the 3 new tests in markdown-entrypoint.test.ts, the new one in bundler_loader.test.ts and the 2 new ones in compile-trim-remove.test.ts (on a build that can trim). The lint rows pass on main: they pin that the shared detector keeps the rule of bun lint.
Also run: test/js/bun/md/, test/js/bun/yaml/, test/js/bun/toml/, test/cli/lint/, test/cli/format/, test/internal/source-lints/, test/internal/trim/features.test.ts, test/internal/bindgen.test.ts, test/internal/builtins-manifest.test.ts, test/integration/bun-types/bun-types.test.ts, cargo clippy for bun_md, bun_format, bun_core, bun_jsc and bun_runtime.
Self-review. Two passes. The first looked at the design and at whether the change should exist: 27 concerns, 25 addressed. The second looked at what the first one changed: 32 concerns, 30 addressed. Not done:
A caller-supplied start (next section): it moves bun fmt and bun lint positions.
The root check on the TOML arm, which cannot fail: it keeps Bun.TOML.parse at its instruction count (see above).
frontmatter?: boolean | undefined in the types: 132 sibling options in bun.d.ts are ?: boolean.
Not in this PR
1 of the 11 callers of the bun_md render entry points still slices and adds a base: the Builder of bun fmt and bun lint (src/format/markdown/parse.rs) wants source positions and picks its own start. Parser::init gives it the whole text and ignores Options.frontmatter there. A start that the caller passes to render_with_extensions is the follow-up.
bun fmt follows Prettier in this: ***, text, *** becomes ---, blank, text, blank, ---. A second run reads that as front matter and writes ---, text, ---. After this PR the renderers skip that last form. The bun fmt behavior is reported on its own.
The .md loader has no switch and does not export the metadata. The docs show a plugin that does. Open question: should a .md module export it?
TOML does not take a line that ends with CR alone. A +++ block in such a file is skipped by the renderers and throws in frontmatter().
A YAML date is a string, where gray-matter gives a Date. The docs and the types say so.
Other open PRs
feat(mdx): add native compilation, loading, and direct serving #27047 (.mdx loader) has its own front matter rule and parses YAML inside bun_md. bun_md::front_matter::detect with Rule::MARKDOWN is the rule for Markdown loaders. A caller that cuts the block off itself passes frontmatter: false.
no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/compile-trim-remove.test.ts
The Markdown parser starts behind a UTF-8 byte order mark and a front
matter block (--- for YAML, +++ for TOML), behind one option,
`frontmatter`, which is on by default. `Bun.markdown.frontmatter(input)`
returns the parsed metadata and the document behind it.
A `...` line is the YAML document end marker. It now ends a `---` front
matter block for the renderers and for Bun.markdown.frontmatter(). bun lint
keeps its rule.
Bun.markdown.frontmatter() throws the error of Bun.YAML.parse or
Bun.TOML.parse for the same metadata, with no position added. The YAML
parse takes a closure that sees the root, and the TOML parse is unchanged.
JsHeap::create_substring takes a WTF-backed string only, and
BunString__substringToJS checks the range in release builds.
The tests run every spec example behind every block, through every
renderer, as 8-bit and 16-bit strings and as bytes.
Bun.markdown.frontmatter() and Bun.TOML.parse each get their own copy of
the parse, as Bun.YAML.parse and frontmatter() have of the YAML parse.
With one shared copy, Bun.TOML.parse is a call longer.
…alone
define_pending takes the MarkedArgumentBuffer that holds the waiting
values, so a call outside its scope does not compile.
BunString__substringToJS reads a WTF-backed string only.
bun lint keeps its rule for a `...` line: one more row in the lint test.
The docs name the rules of bun fmt and bun lint, and a plugin that exports
the metadata of a .md import.
… parser
In an executable built with compile.trim.remove of yaml or toml,
Bun.markdown.frontmatter() of a block in that format ended the process
with code 70. It now throws, as Bun.YAML.parse and Bun.TOML.parse do
there. The trim feature table names the new user of both features.
Tests: inputs that are a part of another string, a byte order mark
without a block, strings that wait behind a sequence key through a
collection, each exit code of a test that runs bun several times, and
the import order of the format job.
Docs: the rule of bun fmt for a ... line, the options argument of each
renderer, a plugin that also serves require(), and null as metadata.
CI (build 137798, d6dbcb6): no failure is in a file that this PR changes.
27 test files fail that fail on main too (main builds 137645 and 137628): 26 under test/aot/ and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. Two of them run locally on a build of main b1007f1 with the same failure.
test/js/web/request/request-clone-leak.test.ts fails on x64-asan at its limit (RSS delta 64 MB, limit 64). It failed or passed on a retry on four other PR builds (137738, 137742, 137763, 137768). On release builds of main and of this PR it reads 6 to 8 MB, then 0 to 1 MB, for both.
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🔴 Existing callers of Bun.markdown.html(), render(), react(), ansi(), bun file.md and .md imports silently lose leading content after merging. With frontmatter: true as the default (src/md/root.rs:90), any input whose first line is --- or +++ and that has a later ---/.../+++ line drops everything up to that line, so "---\nSome text\n---\nMore" renders as "
More
\n" where the base gives "\n
Some text
\n
More
\n". Fix: default the new option to false for the four JS renderers per the repo rule that behavior-changing options default off, keeping it on only where a whole file is implied, and give bun file.md and the .md loader a way to keep the block. [also at: src/md/parser.rs:508 - Users who render whole documents or fragments that merely start with a --- rule now silently lose the top of their content on every renderer, and .md imports and bun file.md have no switch. markdown_of at src/md/parser.rs:499-508 skips to the next --- or ... line before any Markdown is…]
Why this was flagged
A user renders a fragment such as a chat message or streamed text that starts with a --- line through Bun.markdown.html(input) with no options. src/md/parser.rs:334-336 calls markdown_of with flags.frontmatter, which is true from Options::default() at src/md/root.rs:90, and src/md/parser.rs:379-381 returns the text behind the block. src/md/blocks.rs:18 then starts parsing at doc_start, so the first lines never reach the renderer. On the base branch process_doc starts at offset 0 and those lines render as a thematic break and a heading. The same default reaches bun file.md via Options::TERMINAL (src/md/root.rs:137) and .md imports via render_to_html (src/md/root.rs:177-185), where no option exists to turn it off. The docs (docs/runtime/markdown.mdx) and the d.ts acknowledge the loss and tell users to pass frontmatter: false, but existing code that passes no options gets the loss silently; md-spec.test.ts now pins examples 96 and 98 to the non-spec output.
Verification: src/md/blocks.rs:18 let mut off: OFF = self.doc_start; — parsing starts after the block, so the leading lines never reach the renderer. Bun.markdown.html("---\nSome text\n---\nMore") now yields <p>More</p>\n where the base (process_doc starting at 0) yields <hr />\n<h2>Some text</h2>\n<p>More</p>\n; the same silent drop applies to .md imports and bun file.md, which cannot opt out.
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This is decision 1 under "Decisions for a maintainer" in the PR description. The default is on because the maintainer asked for it when #36922 was written. The description asks to confirm that here, because it overrides the default-off rule for new options. I do not change the default without that answer.
If the answer is "off for html(), render(), react() and ansi(), on for bun file.md and .md imports", the change is small:
The binding picks the default for the four functions (parser_options! and ansi() in src/runtime/api/MarkdownObject.rs).
Options::default() and Options::TERMINAL stay on for the two paths that read a whole file.
Examples 96 and 98 in md-spec.test.ts go back to the spec output.
A switch for bun file.md and for the .md loader is under "Not in this PR".
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.
Walkthrough
The change adds front matter detection and default skipping to Markdown rendering, plus Bun.markdown.frontmatter() for parsing YAML and TOML metadata. It also updates Markdown loader behavior, feature-trimming declarations, API types, documentation, and tests.
Markdown options now control whether an initial front matter block is skipped. Detection supplies offsets to the Markdown parser and formatter. Tests cover fence forms, line endings, BOMs, and rendering behavior.
Bun.markdown.frontmatter() accepts strings or byte input and returns parsed metadata with the remaining content. YAML roots must be mappings or null.
Markdown loader and CLI behavior docs/runtime/file-types.mdx, packages/bun-types/ts7.1/import-attributes.d.ts, test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts, test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts, test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts
Documentation and tests cover omission of leading front matter from Markdown imports and CLI output. CLI tests also cover BOMs, CRLF, and images in front matter.
Feature availability and trimming src/trim/features/trim-features.def, src/codegen/builtins/host/features-bun.builtins.ts, test/bundler/compile-trim-remove.test.ts, test/bundler/trim-by-use/*, docs/compiler/size.mdx
Feature declarations associate front matter parsing with YAML and TOML. Tests cover removed features and trim-by-use behavior.
TOML dates in front matter may fail in executables that remove Temporal. Verify that configuration before relying on it.
Pre-merge checks: 4
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Explanation
Title check
The title clearly identifies both primary changes: skipping Markdown front matter at the parser start and adding Bun.markdown.frontmatter().
Description check
The description thoroughly explains the problem, implementation, behavior changes, trade-offs, open decisions, and verification. It does not use the template headings exactly, but it provides the requ…
Linked Issues check
[#26605] The issue requests two coding behaviors: (1) exclude a leading YAML front matter block from Markdown HTML output, and (2) parse that block with Bun's YAML parser so users can read the metadat…
Out of Scope Changes check
No change is demonstrably unrelated to #26605 or to the front matter behavior the PR describes.
- Parser and renderer skip (src/md/parser.rs, src/md/blocks.rs, src/md/root.rs, src/md/types.rs…
Full details: Description check
Explanation
The description thoroughly explains the problem, implementation, behavior changes, trade-offs, open decisions, and verification. It does not use the template headings exactly, but it provides the required information under equivalent sections such as Fix and Tests.
Full details: Linked Issues check
Explanation
[#26605] The issue requests two coding behaviors: (1) exclude a leading YAML front matter block from Markdown HTML output, and (2) parse that block with Bun's YAML parser so users can read the metadata.
(1) Exclusion. At head, src/md/front_matter.rs defines detect and Rule::MARKDOWN. detect returns a block only when the text starts with a --- or +++ fence line that has a closing fence. The parser change (src/md/parser.rs, Parser::init) starts the parse after the block, and src/md/blocks.rs starts process_doc at doc_start. src/md/root.rs sets Options.frontmatter to true by default. For the issue input, ---\ntitle: ...\n---\n# Heading\n, the default renderers therefore output only the heading. Tests in test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts cover this across html(), render(), react() and ansi().
(2) Metadata access. At head, src/runtime/api/MarkdownObject.rs implements frontmatter(). For a --- block it calls yaml_object::parse_to_values, and for a +++ block it calls toml_object::parse_text. Both use the code of Bun.YAML.parse and Bun.TOML.parse. The function returns {data, content}. The type is declared in packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts and tested in md-edge-cases.test.ts.
The default-on setting goes beyond the issue text only in the sense that the issue asks for exclusion by default. The PR description names a repository review-guide conflict. That is a maintainer decision and does not change the requirement result.
Limits: The incremental diff from the previous reviewed head (34e5088) could not be read, because the changed blobs are missing from the checkout. The verdict uses the head source files read here and the whole-PR change summary. I did not run the test suites. The previous PASS result is still supported by the head source.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
Explanation
No change is demonstrably unrelated to #26605 or to the front matter behavior the PR describes.
Parser and renderer skip (src/md/parser.rs, src/md/blocks.rs, src/md/root.rs, src/md/types.rs, src/md/helpers.rs, src/md/lib.rs): the start offset, the frontmatter option, and the removal of caller-side BOM stripping. These implement the skip.
Detector (src/md/front_matter.rs) and its use in src/format/markdown/mod.rs: one block rule for Bun.markdown and bun lint. The lint test changes in test/cli/lint/js-parsers.test.ts pin this shared rule. The PR description states that the lint rule is unchanged, and bun fmt keeps its own rule (src/format/front_matter.rs, comment only).
Bun.markdown.frontmatter (MarkdownObject.rs, MarkdownObject.bind.ts, bun.d.ts, ts7.1/import-attributes.d.ts): the metadata API that the second part of the issue requires.
YAMLObject.rs and TOMLObject.rs: refactors that expose the existing parse code with a root-check argument. frontmatter() uses this code.
bindgen.rs, BunString.cpp, bindgen.rs support code, and immutable.rs (trim_left_t): helpers for the substring content result and the detector.
Trim and feature files (trim-features.def, features-bun.builtins.ts, trim-by-use programs, compile-trim-remove.test.ts): feature gating for frontmatter() under yaml and toml.
Docs, types and tests (docs/, test/js/bun/md/, test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts, test/integration/bun-types/): describe or verify the feature. The runMd() exit-code change in markdown-entrypoint.test.ts is test-harness support for the new tests.
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Minor · Guard the TOML date conversion when Temporal is removed. · features-bun.builtins.ts:219
src/codegen/builtins/host/features-bun.builtins.ts:219 Minor · Stability & Availability · Poor tradeoff
Guard the TOML date conversion when Temporal is removed.
Bun.markdown.frontmatter() converts +++ dates through toml_datetime_to_js, which calls Bun__Temporal__fromDateTimeLiteral with no removal check. In a build where temporal is removed, a date in front matter reaches removed Temporal code. The same unguarded path also serves Bun.TOML.parse. Add a removal check that throws ERR_FEATURE_REMOVED before this call.
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Update the shared TOML date-conversion path in toml_datetime_to_js to check
whether Temporal has been removed before calling
Bun__Temporal__fromDateTimeLiteral, and throw ERR_FEATURE_REMOVED when it has.
Preserve the existing conversion when Temporal is available so both
Bun.markdown.frontmatter and Bun.TOML.parse use the guard.
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Review comments at @src/codegen/builtins/host/features-bun.builtins.ts:
- Line 219: Update the shared TOML date-conversion path in toml_datetime_to_js
to check whether Temporal has been removed before calling
Bun__Temporal__fromDateTimeLiteral, and throw ERR_FEATURE_REMOVED when it has.
Preserve the existing conversion when Temporal is available so both
Bun.markdown.frontmatter and Bun.TOML.parse use the guard.
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On the CodeRabbit follow-up "Guard the TOML date conversion when Temporal is removed": that path already throws, so there is no change.
I built an executable with compile: { aot: true, trim: { remove: ["temporal"] } } from this branch and from main:
Bun.TOML.parse("d = 2024-01-31") throws an Error whose code is ERR_FEATURE_REMOVED, on both builds. A catch block runs and the process exits with code 0.
Bun.markdown.frontmatter("+++\nd = 2024-01-31\n+++\n") throws the same error on this branch.
TOML without a date parses in that executable, through both functions.
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🔴 src/md/root.rs:90 — Existing callers of Bun.markdown.html(), render(), react(), ansi(), bun file.md and .md imports silently lose leading c…
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Fixes #26605
Problem
Bun.markdown,bun file.mdand.mdimports render front matter as Markdown:---\ntitle: Hello\n---gives<hr />and<h2>title: Hello</h2>.Parser::process_docstarts at byte 0 (src/md/blocks.rs:18). No API reads the block.Fix
Parser::initstarts the parse behind a byte order mark and the block (newfrontmatteroption, default on). Offsets stay absolute.bun lintshares the detector.Bun.markdown.frontmatter(input)returns{data, content}and runs theBun.YAML.parseorBun.TOML.parsecode on the block only.test/js/bun/md/md-edge-cases.test.ts(185 of 256 new tests fail on main). Also the lint, format, YAML, TOML and trim suites.bun fmt, two nits.Background
---(YAML) or+++(TOML) lines at a document's start....also ends a---block.render()reports~~~jsforjs.Downsides
---or+++block: CommonMark examples 96 and 98, a chat message.frontmatter: falserestores it.html()without a fence: +38.7 instructions per call (23,864.6 to 23,903.3), +120 with an options object. Binary: +12,288 bytes.bun lintwithfrontmatter: "yaml": +0.09% instructions.html()of 3 MB with an unclosed fence: +3.4%.Notes
This replaces #36922. The stale bot closed that PR on 2026-11-05. The option name, the result shape, most of the rule and many tests come from it. The mechanism is new, and it answers the review comments there. #26605 is from @phenomen.
Decisions for a maintainer (@dylan-conway, @Jarred-Sumner)
md-spec.test.tsthat each spec example renders as the spec says (this is its first edit since feat(md): Zig markdown parser with Bun.markdown API #26440), andbun lint: JSON and Markdown natively, programs in parallel.bun check -b: share work between projects.bun fmt:package.jsonand Svelte without Prettier #45595 onbun lint("Where micromark departs from CommonMark or GFM, Bun follows the spec").Bun.markdownhas the Unstable callout.bun file.mdand the.mdloader take the default and have no switch.frontmatter: falsethe PR build gives what main gives: 827 spec examples as string, CRLF string and Buffer, through the four renderers, 9,924 cases, 0 differences. With the default, 24 differ: examples 96 and 98....line ends a---block. Bun.markdown: add front matter support #36922 did not have this....is the YAML document end marker, and Pandoc, Jekyll and pulldown-cmark end the block there. Without it,html()oftest/js/bun/md/spec.txtloses lines 1 to 881, because its Pandoc header ends with.... A test pins that file.+++blocks andbun lintdo not take....frontmatter()throws whatBun.YAML.parseorBun.TOML.parsethrows for the same metadata. A(line N, column M)suffix was built and removed: no review asked for it as text in the message, and with CRLF the logger gives the wrong line (logger: locate a diagnostic at the first byte of its CR LF pair or UTF-8 sequence, and count columns from 1 after a CR #45554 changes that code). A position belongs on the error of all five text parsers, in its own PR.#45508
RendererImplevents, so that no renderer keeps the source. Its Notes ask which of two shapes is wanted: events, or a start offset. This PR is the start offset, because the skip needs a start in the parser.render(),react()andansi(). With this PR, 0 do.src_textfrom the renderers.doc_startcomposes with its events.Parser::doc_startand theblocks.rsline and slices the text beside the mark skip, about 50 lines less. The detector, the option,frontmatter(), the docs and the tests stay.Parser::doc_start,blocks.rs:18, the two entry points inparser.rsand the removal ofhelpers::skip_utf8_bom. They fit markdown: report fenced code to a renderer with its info string, not an offset into the source #45508 as the rework that its body offers. The self-review preferred this order. It is not done here, because it is a maintainer's choice between two open PRs.MAX_INPUT_LEN) now counts the mark and the block, because offsets are absolute.Answers to the review comments on #36922
strings::index_of_any_t,strings::index_of_scalarand a newstrings::trim_left_t. It has no byte loop of its own.helpers::skip_utf8_bom, nowstrings::without_utf8_bom).---or...line), and one scan finds that line.frontmatter()with a 200-byte block costs 48,886 instructions.Bun.YAML.parseof the same 200 bytes costs 46,795. The 2,092 between them are the scan, the substring and the result object.Bun.YAML.parseof that text is 313.2 M, and it succeeds: prose is one YAML scalar.yaml_object::parse_to_valuesandtoml_object::parse_textare the code ofBun.YAML.parseandBun.TOML.parsewith one more argument, a closure that sees the root.define_pendingis the loop thatBun.YAML.parsehad.Bun.YAML.parse: 14,813.7 on main and 14,814.3 to 14,817.2 in three of five runs on the PR (the two others read 14,962, a step that main shows in other passes too).Bun.TOML.parse: 10,003.3 to 10,002.9. The thunk ofBun.TOML.parseis 0x586 bytes on both builds.Bun.TOML.parsecosts 13 to 17 instructions more (measured on two builds of that variant). That is why TOML takes the closure too, though a TOML root is always a table. This is one of the two nits that are not done: the review asked to drop the argument.The rule
-or three+, then spaces or tabs.---yamland----do not open....for---.bun lintpasses one marker, allows a blank first line and takes no...(micromark's rule). Old and new lint detector: 10,454,640 comparisons, 0 differences, in a harness outside the tree.test/cli/lint/js-parsers.test.tspins the three switches...., it is the rule of Bun.markdown: add front matter support #36922 on each LF and CRLF text: 5,227,320 texts each, 0 differences, in the same harness.bun fmtkeeps Prettier's rule (src/format/front_matter.rs) on purpose: a language behind the fence, a blank first line, text behind the closing fence, and...only when no later line starts with---. The two files name each other.What a caller can write today. This function runs on 1.4.3. On 248,368 generated strings it gives what
Bun.markdown.frontmatter()gives.bun file.md, a.mdimport or a bundled.mdfile. A plugin reaches the last two (the docs now show one). Nothing in userland reachesbun file.md.frontmatter()scans the block only, andcontentshares the characters of the input string.bun_md::front_matter::detect. If review of the API stalls, the skip can land alone at that seam.Measurements. Release LTO builds of main b1007f1 and of this PR. User-space instructions from a
perf_event_opencounter. Per call is the slope between N and 2N calls, median of 5 runs, withBUN_JSC_useConcurrentJIT=0. The document is the small one ofbench/snippets/markdown.mjs.html(doc)html(doc, {})html(doc, { frontmatter: false })html(bytes)render(doc, callbacks)ansi(doc)react(doc)Bun.YAML.parse, 3 linesBun.TOML.parse, 3 linesBun.YAML.parse, 31 linesBun.TOML.parse, 29 lineshtml(), 3 MB,---and text, no closing linefrontmatter: falsebun -e 0bun plain.mdbun post.md(with a block)bun fmt --check, 1,407 docs filesbun lint, same files,frontmatter: "yaml"bun lint, same files, no front matter optionhtml,renderandansirows. Two rows have one run on main that is 45 and 85 instructions off. The median drops it.bun lintwithout the option does not run the detector. Its +0.023% is the floor between the two builds.html(block + doc)againsthtml(doc)on the PR build: +1,075 instructions for a 200-byte block. The cost does not grow with the body.frontmatter()with a 200-byte YAML block: 48,886 (1 KB body) and 48,999 (1 MB body) for an 8-bit string, 50,306 and 50,462 for a 16-bit string. A buffer is decoded: 48,626 and 197,064.frontmatter()with a TOML block: 28,377.Bun.TOML.parseof that block: 25,991. Without a block: 569 instructions and 0 allocation calls.mi_*, so the inlined allocations of JavaScriptCore are not counted):Bun.YAML.parse(metadata)26.03,frontmatter()26.03 for an 8-bit string or a buffer and 27.03 for a 16-bit string (the UTF-8 copy of the block). TOML: 27.03 and 27.03.html(): 22 with and without a block.Bun.YAML.parse(metadata)12,frontmatter()14 (the result andcontent). Without a block: 2.contentof a string input shares the characters of that string, so it keeps the whole input alive, asString.prototype.slicedoes. A shortcontent(up to 12 characters, or 6 in a 16-bit string) is a copy.bun post.mdandbun plain.md: 183 syscall stops in gdb on both builds..text+10,240,.rodata+256.Bun.markdown.frontmatter), one result dictionary, and one member in three option dictionaries. No startup work:bun -e 0is inside the spread.bun build --compile --aot --trimof a program that useshtml()andrender()only: 26,383,368 to 26,403,720 bytes (+20,352). It has no YAML or TOML code. The front matter program oftrim-by-useis 28,014,152 bytes and runs.perf,valgrind,straceandbloatyare not on the machine. The counter, gdb,sizeandreadelfstand in for them.Tests
md-edge-cases.test.ts,front matter: 14 blocks and 14 starts that are no block, through the four renderers and throughfrontmatter(), as 8-bit string, 16-bit string and bytes. Each block before each of the 827 spec examples (render()andreact()take every seventh). A byte order mark before each example, with and without the option.spec.txtitself. The language behind a mark. The reference link budget.frontmatter(): shapes, errors equal to those ofBun.YAML.parseandBun.TOML.parse, a key that is a sequence, and a garbage collection while values wait for such a key. That last test fails withASSERTION FAILED: decontaminate()whendefine_pendingruns outside the roots (checked once by moving the call, before the test got its last two additions).define_pendingnow takes the roots as an argument, so that move does not compile. Thefrontmatter()tests also pass withBUN_JSC_slowPathAllocsBetweenGCs=3 BUN_JSC_useZombieMode=1and withBUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1.md-spec.test.ts: each example withfrontmatter: falseagainst the spec, and examples 96 and 98 against their new output.markdown-entrypoint.test.ts:bun file.mdskips the block, does not fetch an image that the block names, and colors code behind a mark.runMd()now keeps the first exit code that is not 0, so a test with several runs checks each.compile-trim-remove.test.ts: in an executable withoutyamlortoml(compile.trim.remove),frontmatter()of a block in that format throwsERR_FEATURE_REMOVED, and the other format and the renderers work. Before the fix for it the process exited with code 70.bundler_loader.test.ts, the import test inmd-edge-cases.test.ts, twotrim-by-useprograms, and the type fixture.md-edge-cases.test.tsfail, the 2 changed examples inmd-spec.test.ts, the 3 new tests inmarkdown-entrypoint.test.ts, the new one inbundler_loader.test.tsand the 2 new ones incompile-trim-remove.test.ts(on a build that can trim). The lint rows pass on main: they pin that the shared detector keeps the rule ofbun lint.test/js/bun/md/,test/js/bun/yaml/,test/js/bun/toml/,test/cli/lint/,test/cli/format/,test/internal/source-lints/,test/internal/trim/features.test.ts,test/internal/bindgen.test.ts,test/internal/builtins-manifest.test.ts,test/integration/bun-types/bun-types.test.ts,cargo clippyforbun_md,bun_format,bun_core,bun_jscandbun_runtime.Self-review. Two passes. The first looked at the design and at whether the change should exist: 27 concerns, 25 addressed. The second looked at what the first one changed: 32 concerns, 30 addressed. Not done:
bun fmtandbun lintpositions.Bun.TOML.parseat its instruction count (see above).frontmatter?: boolean | undefinedin the types: 132 sibling options inbun.d.tsare?: boolean.Not in this PR
bun_mdrender entry points still slices and adds a base: theBuilderofbun fmtandbun lint(src/format/markdown/parse.rs) wants source positions and picks its own start.Parser::initgives it the whole text and ignoresOptions.frontmatterthere. A start that the caller passes torender_with_extensionsis the follow-up.bun fmtfollows Prettier in this:***, text,***becomes---, blank, text, blank,---. A second run reads that as front matter and writes---, text,---. After this PR the renderers skip that last form. Thebun fmtbehavior is reported on its own..mdloader has no switch and does not export the metadata. The docs show a plugin that does. Open question: should a.mdmodule export it?+++block in such a file is skipped by the renderers and throws infrontmatter().Date. The docs and the types say so.Other open PRs
.mdxloader) has its own front matter rule and parses YAML insidebun_md.bun_md::front_matter::detectwithRule::MARKDOWNis the rule for Markdown loaders. A caller that cuts the block off itself passesfrontmatter: false.noHtmlSpansand emit no span inside image alt text #45219, markdown: write code and HTML lines as source slices, so a leading tab stays a tab #45611, markdown: hand react(), render() and ansi() the resolved href and title through SpanDetail accessors #46069 and markdown: turn a line ending in a code span into a space in the parser #46402 touch the same lines and need a rebase after this. In markdown: write code and HTML lines as source slices, so a leading tab stays a tab #45611,verbatim_floormust start atdoc_start, not at 0.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/compile-trim-remove.test.ts