[robobun]

Behaviour change: none

Problem

• docs/bundler/minifier.mdx shows an Input and an Output for each transformation. bun build does not print 12 of the 59 Outputs. Example: if (x) {} else y; prints if(x);else y;, and the page shows if(!x)y;.
• The Outputs were typed by hand (Replace old docs with new docs repo #24201), and no test runs them.

Fix

• scripts/minifier-docs.ts generates every Output block: it runs bun build ./input.ts with the flags on the Mode line.
• test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts generates the page again. It fails when the page differs, or when a Mode line names a flag that changes nothing.
• Each Input is now a complete program. Rows with no transformation behind them are gone, and so is the import.meta section (see Notes).
• Verified: the test passes with bun bd test, and fails on the page as main has it.

Background

• Tests already run the examples of two docs trees: test/cli/lint/rule-docs.test.ts and test/cli/aot-docs.test.ts.
• Considered a hand correction: three earlier hand passes left these rows. Considered minifier passes that match the page: new behaviour, and minify: port esbuild's statement-level syntax passes #41159 proposes the if rewrite.

Downsides

• A later PR that changes an Output on the page must run bun bd scripts/minifier-docs.ts --write. Between bun 1.3.14 and main, one change needed that.
• The tests add 9 bun build processes per test lane: 0.2 s on a release build, 1.5 to 3.4 s on a debug build with about 4 usable cores. No instruction count: perf is not installed here.
• The page grows from 17,919 to 22,345 bytes. Each example now has console.log(...) around it.

Notes

What was wrong on the page (main 7ca0042, from a run of every pair). Outputs that bun build does not print under the Mode of the section:

Section	The page showed	bun build prints
Template literal to string conversion	a template with a line break becomes "Line 1\nLine 2"	the template stays
If statement optimization	if (x) {} else y; becomes if(!x)y;	if(x);else y;
Unreachable branch removal	while (false) {…} is removed	while(!1)neverRuns();
Empty block removal	{ } becomes ;, and if (x) { } is removed	{ } is removed, and if (x) { } becomes if(x);
Control flow formatting (--minify-whitespace)	no braces	if(condition){doSomething()}for(…){console.log(i)}
Import.meta property inlining ("Bundle mode")	four strings	import.meta.dir and the other three stay as written in an ES module bundle
Expression statement merging	three top-level calls joined by commas	three statements. Bun joins them in a function body or a block
Throw statement merging	throw(console.log(x),new Error());	at the top level console.log(x);throw Error();, in a function throw console.log(x),Error()
Computed property enum inlining	{ [Keys.FOO]: value } becomes {foo:value}	{["foo"]:value} for an enum of the same file. An imported enum gives {foo:value}
Arrow function body shortening	a => a + 1	(a)=>a+1
Drop console calls	void 0; for each dropped statement	nothing for a dropped statement
Drop custom function calls	void 0; for each dropped statement	nothing for a dropped statement

Nine Mode lines named a flag that the transformation does not need. They now say Always active: Number formatting, String quote optimization, Logical operation folding, Nullish coalescing folding, Ternary conditional folding, Unary expression folding, TypeScript enum inlining, TypeScript enum cross-module inlining, Comment removal. The constant rows of "Typeof optimizations" moved to a new section, "Typeof constant folding", for the same reason.

The two sections on --drop said that Bun removes all calls. Their Inputs now have calls that stay: globalThis.console.log(), and a call with brackets such as console["log"](). Bun removes the call with brackets only when --minify-syntax is also set.

Three Inputs were complete programs whose only type errors were parameters with no type (TS7006 under the tsconfig that bun init writes): "Identifier renaming", "Whitespace removal" and "Function formatting". Their parameters now have types, so 29 of the 59 Inputs pass a type check with those options. The other 30 read names that nothing declares (x, obj, condition). That is on purpose: Bun cannot fold a value that it does not know.

What the page no longer shows.

• "Import.meta property inlining". Bun replaces import.meta.dir, .file, .path and .url with the paths of the source file only when the bundle format is CommonJS (src/js_parser/fold.rs:612, from fix(bundler): import.meta.url and esm wrapper fixes #23803). That is not a minifier transformation. The Output also holds paths of the machine that builds, so the generator cannot write it.
• "Unreachable branch removal". Its one example was the while (false) loop. "If statement optimization" and "Dead code elimination" show the code that Bun does remove.
• Rows that print unchanged, or that only show the rewrite of another section: if (x) {} else y;, x ? true : false, -(-x), ~~x, !!x, !true, typeof require.
• The byte counts of the Combined Example. They were typed by hand.

The minifier does not gain the rewrites that the old page described: the if inversion (#41159 proposes it, and prints x||y), the removal of a while (false) loop, a plain key for an enum member of the same file, comma joins at the top level, and a=>a (#30655).

How the test was shown to fail. This PR changes no file under src/, so the test passes with any recent build. These runs show that it can fail:

• The test with the page of main: it fails with 16 problems (Mode lines that are not flags, Inputs that do not parse, sections that print nothing).
• One changed byte in one Output: exactly one section fails. The failure shows the diff and the --write command.
• --write twice: the second run writes 0 blocks.
• The second test has an Input with lines that look like the comment Bun writes above a source file. It fails on the first commit of this PR, where the generator removed such a line.
• A separate check with its own parser ran each section alone and read stdout of bun build ./input.ts <flags>. 59 of 59 Outputs match on the debug build of this branch, on the canary of 7ca0042, and on 1.4.3-canary (367d939). After the merge of main 2596ac5, the same check gives 59 of 59 on the debug build and on the canary of that commit.

Measurements.

• minifier-docs.test.ts: 9 bun build child processes per test lane (0 before): 8 for the page, and 1 for the test of the comment with the path. Counted with a wrapper around the build function. strace is not installed here.
• test file: on the debug build the page test takes 1.5 to 3.4 s and the file 3.4 to 5.4 s over 10 runs (budget 10 s). This machine has about 4 usable cores. Each bun build gets two threads: with one thread for each core the page test took 2.3 to 5.2 s, and it exceeded the 5 s default of a local bun test in half of the runs. On the release build the page test takes 0.11 to 0.17 s. CI passes its own timeout of 90 s for each test. perf is not installed here, so there is no instruction count.
• build inputs added: 0 (bun scripts/glob-sources.ts --all lists 8,706 files, none from this PR). ninja codegen edges that read the generator: 0.
• release binary: +0 bytes (0 changed files are compiled inputs).
• minifier.mdx: 22,345 bytes (17,919 on main), +367/-352 lines.
• 59 of 59 Output blocks generated, 0 problems, 0 sections differ between the debug build and the release canary.
• at most 10 commits since the page's last edit could have needed --write (the commits to test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts). 0 of 59 sections differ between bun 1.4.2 and this build. 2 of 59 differ for bun 1.3.14: "Arrow function body shortening" and the Combined Example.

Left open.

• A PR that changes only files under docs/ runs no tests (.buildkite/ci.ts:1988). A hand edit of an Output block in such a PR is first caught by the next build of main.
• The check for a flag that changes nothing cannot judge --minify-whitespace, because that flag changes almost every Output. I checked the six sections with that flag by hand.
• Other pages show outputs that nothing runs. One that I checked: the first example of docs/bundler/css.mdx shows background: white, and bun build prints background: #fff.
• Open PRs that change the minifier may need --write after a rebase onto this one: minify: port esbuild's statement-level syntax passes #41159, minifier: re-sugar lowered optional chains, shortest numbers, and small peepholes #41156, bundler: inline single-use vars, drop unused locals, and re-merge after each edit #41158, minifier: drop parens around single-identifier arrow parameter #30655, js_parser: do not fold { f: () => {} }.f to the bare function #42585, js_parser: make --drop turn <dropped>.method.bind(...) into () => {}, not undefined #45566, js_printer: keep \n escaped in quoted strings without --minify-syntax #42745, js_parser: keep (0, value) where a fold would let a binding name an anonymous function or class #42691, js_parser: fold a direct read of a multi-property object literal in minified builds #47604. docs: add Oxford comma in minifier naming strategy #41092 and docs: remove trailing whitespace in minifier guide #41097 edit the prose of the page.

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passes on PR (with fix)

Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts:
(pass) an Output keeps the lines of its Input that look like a comment with a path [2013.70ms]
(pass) docs/bundler/minifier.mdx shows what `bun build` prints [2856.19ms]

 2 pass
 0 fail
 4 expect() calls
Ran 2 tests across 1 file. [5.18s]
Exit: 0

diff hotspot

.prettierignore                    |   2 +-
 docs/bundler/minifier.mdx          | 719 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 scripts/minifier-docs.ts           | 301 ++++++++++++++++
 test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts |  44 +++
 4 files changed, 713 insertions(+), 353 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 6

evidence per changed file

file                                reads  edits  tests
.prettierignore                         0      0     48
docs/bundler/minifier.mdx               1      0     50
scripts/minifier-docs.ts                4      6     51
test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts      1      3     46

[robobun]

^{Updated 2:40 PM PT - Nov 8th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit e56b8a6a3df8fa9633847e3745a9632f27560e38 passed in Build #138810! 🎉

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[robobun]

Status: ready for review. Every CI job that ran on the latest head passed. The macOS x64 test jobs wait for an agent.

How I reproduced the problem. I saved each Input of docs/bundler/minifier.mdx to a file and ran bun build on main (7ca0042) with the flags of its Mode line. bun build does not print 12 of the 59 Outputs. Example:

echo 'if (x) {} else y;' > input.ts
bun build ./input.ts --minify-syntax --minify-whitespace
# if(x);else y;        (the page showed if(!x)y;)

The Notes of the PR body have the table of all 12.

How to check this PR.

bun bd test test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts   # passes
bun bd scripts/minifier-docs.ts                  # lists stale Output blocks: none
bun bd scripts/minifier-docs.ts --write          # writes the Output blocks again: 0 change

CI. Build 138810 of the latest head (e56b8a6): 184 of 188 jobs passed. That is every lane except macOS x64: Debian 13 (x64, aarch64, ASAN), Ubuntu 25.04 and Alpine 3.23 (x64 and aarch64), Windows 2019 x64, Windows 11 aarch64 and macOS aarch64.

The build shows as failing for one reason: the 4 macOS x64 test jobs have not run. They expire in the queue because no agent takes them, and Buildkite schedules them again each time (three times so far). No test is red. Four tests that this PR does not touch failed once and passed on a retry.

Build 138600 of the head before (26fcf05) passed on all 188 jobs, macOS x64 included. The commit since then changes only the page: four Inputs and one generated Output.

[coderabbitai]

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a Bun script that generates and checks output blocks in the minifier documentation. It revises transformation examples and descriptions, adds tests for generated output, and updates the .prettierignore comment to identify the generator and test.

Changes

Minifier documentation generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse sections and generate outputs scripts/minifier-docs.ts	The script parses documentation sections and mode flags, creates temporary build inputs, runs builds with declared flags and with individual flags omitted, and collects generated output and build problems.
Compare and update documentation outputs scripts/minifier-docs.ts	The script compares generated blocks with the page and reports stale sections. Its command-line interface writes updated blocks only with --write.
Expression transformation examples docs/bundler/minifier.mdx	The examples show logged input and output for expression transformations. Descriptions identify transformations that are always active and specify details such as number formatting and template literals.
Statement and identifier transformations docs/bundler/minifier.mdx	The examples and descriptions cover dead-code removal, statement and block simplification, merging, enum inlining, arrow bodies, and identifier renaming.
Output formatting and call removal docs/bundler/minifier.mdx	The examples cover formatting, whitespace, and parentheses. The descriptions specify comment retention and how dropped calls are represented when their value is used. The combined example is labeled --minify.
Generated documentation validation test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts, .prettierignore	The tests check generated output and preservation of source-path-like input lines. The ignore-file comment names the generator and comparison test.

Possibly related issues

• React Compiler with syntax minification silently drops folded parts of template literals #47464: The documentation updates template-literal folding examples, but the provided summary does not indicate that this change addresses the reported React compiler issue.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#42585: This PR updates an object-property example on the minifier page, whose generated output is checked by this change.
• oven-sh/bun#47604: This PR adds a minifier page section, and this change’s generator parses section modes and checks bundled output.

Suggested reviewers: alii

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 78107

The documentation generator preserves existing output when a build fails. No issue identified here prevents merging after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: generating minifier documentation output with bun build.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description follows the template's two required areas. "What does this PR do?" is covered by the Problem, Fix, Background, Downsides, and Notes sections. It states the bug (12 of 59 hand-written O…

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Explanation

The description follows the template's two required areas. "What does this PR do?" is covered by the Problem, Fix, Background, Downsides, and Notes sections. It states the bug (12 of 59 hand-written Outputs do not match bun build), the fix (a generator in scripts/minifier-docs.ts, a test in test/bundler/minifier-docs.test.ts, complete-program Inputs, and removed rows), and the scope of removals (the import.meta section). "How did you verify your code works?" is covered by the test run with bun bd test, the failure runs against the page on main, the stale-output and --write idempotency checks, the cross-build comparison of 59 of 59 Outputs, and the timing measurements. The description is long and includes details that a reviewer must read carefully, such as the 9 added bun build processes and the open items. These details add context and do not leave a required part missing. The description links the problem to the affected page and the related issue #24201, and it states the trade-offs. The only issue is length and density, not missing content.

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- Around line 205-206: Update the generated-path marker removal using the
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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 page content can shape the spawned bun build argv or the temp-dir file layout: Mode flags are bound by the FLAG allowlist (fixed --minify* spellings and --drop=<identifier>), sibling file names must match [a-z0-9_-]+\.ts, and spawn runs without a shell, so a docs edit cannot inject arguments or paths. The output-splice also iterates sections in reverse so earlier line offsets stay valid.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a generator script and a single test that regenerate the Output blocks of docs/bundler/minifier.mdx by spawning bun build, and rewrites the page; the only security-relevant surface is docs text becoming process arguments and temp-file paths, which the allowlist and name regex close off. Three confirmed inline findings (CI gap for docs-only PRs, unhandled bad --bun= path, undetectable wrong --minify-whitespace Mode lines) mean a human should still weigh them.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding, I checked whether the new exact-line match for the stripped path comment (// section-N/input.ts, replacing the earlier [\\/] regex) would miss the comment on Windows — the bundler's pretty path comes from relative_platform::<Loose> in src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, which converts to forward slashes on Windows, so the line still matches there.

Extended reasoning...

The second commit addresses the path-comment stripping (exact line match with a prefix no Input contains) and resolves a relative --bun path up front; the docs-only CI skip and the whitespace-flag check from the earlier review remain as noted in the PR. The remaining concrete concern examined this run, the forward-slash assumption on Windows, is covered by the bundler's Loose-platform relative path normalization.

[claude]

I reviewed the latest push (8c368ad) and found no bugs; the --bun handling now looks up a bare name on PATH as suggested. Because the page rewrite removes two sections, drops several example rows and changes nine Mode lines, a human look at the editorial choices on docs/bundler/minifier.mdx would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=2 in buildWith: src/bun_core/util.rs:2697 reads it (clamped to a minimum of 2), so the knob is live for the bundler's thread pool.
• The // section-N/input.ts comment filter on Windows: the bundler's pretty path uses the Loose platform (src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs:2900), which separates with /, so the filter matches there too.
• Batching sections into one bun build: --minify-identifiers char frequency is per chunk (renameSymbolsInChunk.rs:209), so the Identifier renaming Output does not depend on the other sections in the batch.
• The parser's handling of ## Keep Names (no Mode line, blocks skipped) and ## Combined Example (Mode line outside ## All Transformations, still generated).

Extended reasoning...

The PR adds a 301-line generator script, a 44-line test that spawns nine bun build processes per lane, a one-line .prettierignore comment, and a ~700-line rewrite of docs/bundler/minifier.mdx; no files under src/ change and no security-sensitive surface is touched. The script's regex allowlist restricts Mode-line flags to --minify* and --drop=, so the page cannot inject arbitrary argv into the CI build. The byte-for-byte test covers every Output block, but the removal of sections, the prose edits and the "Always active" reclassifications are editorial judgement that only a maintainer can weigh, and the docs-only CI skip discussed earlier remains an open design point, which is why this is a defer rather than an approve.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.