[robobun]

Question for @Jarred-Sumner: no user reported this bug. The review of #48457 found it (thread), and no release has vi.setConfig() or --isolate=modules. Do you want the fix? If not, I close it.

Problem

• Under --isolate=modules, a preload that registers a hook and then calls vi.setConfig({ hookTimeout: 10 }) fails every file after the first: a beforeEach/afterEach hook timed out for this test.
• The preload's second run still sees the config of the first. Workaround: a first preload that calls vi.resetConfig().
• Cause: on_test_file_end (src/runtime/test_runner/vi_utils.rs:70) clears the preload's copy by next_load_shares_global, which does not say whether the preloads run again.

Fix

• vi_config_of_preload moves from TestRunner to BunTestRoot, beside the preload's hooks. The reset after each isolation swap drops both.
• vi_utils::restore_config_of_preload copies it into the live config when a file is left and before each load.
• Verified: test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts, 13 new cases, 8 fail on main. Self-reviewed: 22 concerns raised, 14 addressed (Notes).

Background

• Bun evaluates a --preload script once, or for each test file with --isolate and --isolate=modules.
• BunTestRoot holds what outlives a test file: hook_scope, the preload's hooks.
• Considered a second flag in TestCommand::run: again a prediction, cleared before the swap.

Downsides

• A vi.setConfig() made after a file's tests no longer reaches the next file. Main keeps it.
• Per file load: 16 → 25 instructions. BunTestRoot: 56 → 88 bytes. Release .text: unchanged.
• Not fixed: a preload's spies, stubs and clock carry over under --isolate=modules (Notes).

Notes

Where this comes from

• The review of bun test: keep the file's default timeout in one store that setDefaultTimeout() and vi.setConfig() both write #48457 found the stale copy and called it "pre-existing, not blocking". bun test: keep the file's default timeout in one store that setDefaultTimeout() and vi.setConfig() both write #48457 left it out: the clear has to move to the point where the preloads run again, and it concerns every key of the config.
• No issue reports it. vi.setConfig() and --isolate=modules both arrive with bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 (2026-10-31). The latest release is bun-v1.4.4 (2026-10-22).
• docs/test/parallel.mdx says that --preload scripts are "new per file" with --isolate and with --isolate=modules. Vitest 4.1.9 calls vi.resetConfig() after each test file ("because user might call vi.setConfig in setupFile").

Reproduction

A preload with no condition:

import { beforeEach, vi } from "bun:test";
beforeEach(() => Bun.sleep(40));
vi.setConfig({ hookTimeout: 10 });

Nine test files, each test("t", () => {}). Failed files on canary 1.4.4-canary.1+98cda0d8b:

flags	main	this PR
--isolate	0 of 9	0 of 9
--isolate=modules	8 of 9	0 of 9
--parallel=4 --isolate=modules	5 of 9	0 of 9
--parallel=12 --isolate=modules	0 of 9	0 of 9

The second evaluation of the preload registers the hook while the hookTimeout of the first evaluation is still the live config. Only the first file of each worker passes, so the result depends on the number of workers.

A preload with a condition:

import { vi } from "bun:test";
if (Bun.main.includes("a.test")) vi.setConfig({ testTimeout: 1234 });

a.test.ts and b.test.ts print task.timeout:

flags	main	this PR
--isolate	a: 1234, b: 5000	same
--isolate=modules	a: 1234, b: 1234	a: 1234, b: 5000
--parallel=2 --isolate=modules, one worker	a: 1234, b: 1234	a: 1234, b: 5000
--isolate --rerun-each=2, a.test.ts throws while it loads	b: 1234, b: 1234	b: 5000, b: 5000
--parallel=2 --rerun-each=2, one worker, same file	b: 1234, b: 1234	b: 5000, b: 5000
no flag (the preload runs once)	a: 1234, b: 1234	same

Every key carries over the same way on main: testTimeout, hookTimeout, maxConcurrency, clearMocks, mockReset, restoreMocks, unstubEnvs, unstubGlobals.

Today's workaround is a preload of its own, listed first:

import { vi } from "bun:test";
vi.resetConfig();

With it, canary gives the results of this PR in both tables.

Why the flag is wrong twice

TestCommand::run computes next_load_shares_global before the file loads: !vm.test_isolation_enabled || vm.test_isolation_state.shares_global || repeat_index + 1 < repeat_count.

• --isolate=modules sets shares_global, so the flag is always true. The preloads still run again for each file, in a new module graph.
• With --rerun-each, the flag is true on the first load. When that load fails, the loop ends, the caller swaps the global object, and the preloads run again.

Both file loops (run_all_tests in test_command.rs, WorkerLoop::begin in test/parallel/runner.rs) already call reset_hook_scope_for_test_isolation() right after swap_global_for_test_isolation(). #44833 put Expect::reset_for_test_isolation() at the same two places. The preload's config now goes in the first of the two.

The second change: what runs after a file's tests

On main, on_test_file_end restores the config first. Script of the file that runs later can change it again, and the next file gets that. This PR restores the config when the file is left and again before the next load, so nothing of that reaches the next file.

what calls vi.setConfig({ testTimeout: 1234 }) after the tests of a.test.ts	flags	b.test.ts on main	this PR
the close handler of a socket that the file left open	--isolate, a --parallel=2 worker	1234	5000
a Proxy trap, when the runner restores the file's spy	no flag, --isolate=modules, a --parallel=2 --no-isolate worker	1234	5000
the same trap	--rerun-each=2	1234, 5000	5000, 5000

A callback of a finished file that runs while the next file loads or runs still applies to that file. That is only possible without isolation.

Why the config is also restored when the file is left

A --parallel --no-isolate worker runs the event loop between two files. A hook that a leftover callback registers there joins the preload's hooks and wraps every later file of the worker. On main it gets the preload's hookTimeout. With the restore only before each load, it got the hookTimeout of the file before (1 of 3 files pass where main passes 3). One new case pins this.

Not in this PR

Other records of what a preload did stay on the global object that --isolate=modules keeps. On canary 98cda0d8b and with this PR, a preload that acts only for a.test.ts:

preload call	--isolate, in b.test.ts	--isolate=modules, in b.test.ts
setSystemTime(new Date(0))	new Date().getFullYear() is 2026	1970
vi.spyOn(fs, "existsSync").mockReturnValue("spied")	fs.existsSync("/") is true	"spied"
vi.stubEnv("FOO", "p")	process.env.FOO = "mine"; vi.stubEnv("FOO", "x"); vi.unstubAllEnvs() leaves "mine"	leaves FOO deleted
vi.stubGlobal("g", "p")	the same sequence leaves "mine"	leaves g deleted

• They live on the global object (JSMockFunction::isMadeByPreload, envsOfPreload, globalsOfPreload) and in FakeTimers, not on the runner. The reset that this PR extends takes no global object. bun test: keep a clock that a preload's beforeAll() or aroundAll() sets for every test file #48070, bun test: take a preload's vi.stubGlobal() stubs off globalThis while a window's names move #48219, bun:test: in vi.unstubAllGlobals(), put back what a restored spy replaced, not the spy #48249 and bun test: keep a spy's implementation when the end of a test file restores it #48443 change those lines. I can open an issue for them if that is wanted.
• A preload's setDefaultTimeout() still reaches the first file only when the preload runs once (setDefaultTimeout via bunfig [test] preload is ignored for all but the first test file in directory-form bun test runs on 1.4.2 (honored for single-file runs) #43787, bun test: setDefaultTimeout() in a preload applies only to the first file, and a sync block after a timer escapes the timeout #45192). That is released behaviour, and bun test: keep a preload's setDefaultTimeout() for every file in the run #39235 proposes the change.
• A setDefaultTimeout() from a socket's close handler still reaches the next file in a serial --isolate run (b: 1234). bun test: keep the file's default timeout in one store that setDefaultTimeout() and vi.setConfig() both write #48457 rewrites that store.
• With --isolate --rerun-each=2 or --isolate=modules --rerun-each=2, a test file that empties require.cache makes its second run evaluate the preload again with no swap in between. The preload with no condition then fails that run, on main and with this PR.

Order with #48457

This PR goes first. 5 of the 22 hunks of #48457 no longer apply on this branch (patch --dry-run -F0). After the rebase, its timeouts_of_each_repeat belongs on BunTestRoot beside vi_config_of_preload, cleared in the same reset. Its serial loop calls restore_default_timeouts() before the swap, so a rebase that keeps that call there brings the old preload's timeouts back.

Measurements

Two local release builds from one build directory: main 89452d2ac13 and this change on it.

• Config work per file that loads once (llvm-objdump, instructions on the path): 16 → 25 without isolation, 20 → 30 with --isolate, 16 → 30 with --isolate=modules. Each further --rerun-each repeat: 16 → 21.
• Where the 25 go: 6 before the load, 4 once per file, 2 at the end of the load, 13 when the file is left (8 of them find the runner). The reset after a swap adds 5 stores and no call.
• Readers of the config: parse_arguments (1001 instructions), Bun__Bindgen__ViUtils__setConfig (469) and Bun__ViUtils__resetConfig (28) have the same instruction sequence in both builds. Of 769 test runner functions, 762 do.
• size: text 143,123,524, data 124,448, bss 1,862,184 in both. Stripped bun: 143,288,592 bytes in both. 5 of 195,713 symbols change size, +102 bytes in sum.
• Type sizes (llvm-dwarfdump on debug builds of 98cda0d8b and of the change on it): TestRunner 704 → 704, BunTestRoot 56 → 88, vi_utils::Config 32.
• Host functions, bindgen entries and C ABI symbols added: 0.
• bloaty is not installed on the machine. size and nm -S gave the byte counts.

Self-review

22 concerns, 14 addressed. The rest:

In part:

• The class. Only the runner's record is fixed here. The other records are listed above.
• The routes on which the preloads run again with no swap. The require.cache route is listed above. A hot reload under bun test --isolate --hot is said to be a second one. I did not reproduce it.
• The leftovers of the swap. The close handler's setDefaultTimeout() is listed above. A process.chdir() in a close handler is a different subject.
• One issue for what stays. Not opened yet, see above.

Not taken:

• A preload's setDefaultTimeout() for every file as a second commit (raised twice). It changes released behaviour and bun test: keep a preload's setDefaultTimeout() for every file in the run #39235 owns it.
• The reset takes the global object, calls Expect::reset_for_test_isolation() and ends the preload's clock. That is the first step of a wider change. bun test: keep a clock that a preload's beforeAll() or aroundAll() sets for every test file #48070 changes the clock's owner. The reset keeps its name, because it still drops only what BunTestRoot holds.
• A table test of ten preload effects in five modes. It would show the records above as failures.

Tests

• bun bd test test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts: 206 pass. With the sources of main (f33631841f6): 198 pass, 8 fail (the 8 new cases that show a stale config).
• The 5 other new cases pass on both. They pin --isolate, a --parallel=2 worker, --rerun-each=2, a --parallel=2 --no-isolate worker, and the hook that is registered between two files.
• The two --isolate=modules cases are test.serial. A debug build needs about 2 s to start in that mode, and the file runs 20 processes at a time.
• The file takes 2.8 s with a release build. With a debug build on the test machine: 22 to 28 s before, 24 to 38 s now.
• Also run with a debug build: vitest-apis.test.ts (151 pass), vitest-flavor.test.ts (191 pass), bun-test.test.ts (230 pass), expect-deferred.test.ts (56 pass), rerun-each.test.ts, jest-hooks.test.ts, test-test.test.ts, test-timeout-behavior.test.ts. The first three need --timeout 60000 on that machine.
• isolation.test.ts: 151 pass, 1 fail. The failure is "no other builtin module patches a global class when it loads": its inner test needs more than the default 5 s in a debug build. bun test --isolate=modules: list in the docs what carries over between files, and correct the --help line #48344 reports the same on main.
• parallel.test.ts: 55 pass, 1 fail. "each worker has a unique JEST_WORKER_ID" expects three workers to start. It passes in 1 of 3 runs alone on that machine.
• Not run: Windows, macOS.

[robobun]

^{Updated 4:18 PM PT - Nov 11th, 2026}

@robobun, your commit c63f452 is building: #140370

[robobun]

Status: waiting for a maintainer's yes or no. No user reported this bug. The first line of the description has the question.

How I reproduced it. On canary 1.4.4-canary.1+f33631841 (the head of main):

// preload.ts
import { beforeEach, vi } from "bun:test";
beforeEach(() => Bun.sleep(40));
vi.setConfig({ hookTimeout: 10 });

// a.test.ts and b.test.ts
import { test } from "bun:test";
test("t", () => {});

bun test --preload ./preload.ts --isolate=modules ./a.test.ts ./b.test.ts

• a.test.ts passes. b.test.ts fails with a beforeEach/afterEach hook timed out for this test.
• With --isolate both files pass.
• With this PR both files pass in both modes.

bun test test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts on that canary: 198 pass, 8 fail (8 of the 13 new cases). With a debug build of this PR: 206 pass.

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Walkthrough

The test runner stores preload vi.setConfig() values with the preload hook scope and restores them around test-file execution. Isolation resets both. Tests cover configuration and hook behavior across files, reruns, parallel modes, and load failures.

Changes

Preload configuration lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store configuration with preload hooks src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/vi_utils.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs, src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs	BunTestRoot stores preload configuration with its hook scope and resets both for isolation. The runner no longer stores a separate preload configuration field.
Restore configuration at file boundaries src/runtime/test_runner/vi_utils.rs, src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs, test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts	The runner restores saved preload configuration before and after test-file execution. Tests cover configuration and hook behavior across files, reruns, isolation modes, and load failures.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#48226: Both changes define how preload state applies across rerun file executions.
• oven-sh/bun#45215: Both changes manage preload state during file isolation and teardown.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

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