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Summary

Fixes a regression in 0.4.0 where the published browser ES build (dist/browser/img2num.js) ships a wasm URL that downstream bundlers cannot statically analyze. Any consumer bundling img2num with Vite, webpack 5, Rollup, or Parcel gets a runtime 404 (GET .../assets/img2num.wasm) followed by RuntimeError: Aborted(both async and sync fetching of the wasm failed).

Root cause

Vite's lib mode inlines new URL("img2num.wasm", import.meta.url) as a data URL (ignoring assetsInlineLimit), so the build previously mangled the expression into a non-static form to defeat that analysis:

new URL(globalThis.__IMG2NUM_WASM_NAME__ ??= "img2num.wasm", import.meta.url)

That mangled form shipped in the published output. The same property that defeats our lib-mode inlining also blinds consumers' bundlers — the exact literal new URL("<file>", import.meta.url) is the pattern they rely on to detect, emit, hash, and rewrite the wasm asset in app builds. With it gone, the URL resolves at runtime against the consumer's chunk path, where no wasm exists.

The standalone IIFE/UMD builds are unaffected (SINGLE_FILE=1, wasm embedded), which is why the CDN <script> path kept working while bundled consumers broke. Node builds resolve via the glue's __dirname path and are also unaffected.

Fix

preventWasmInlining is replaced by a two-phase wasmUrlPlugin:

  1. transform — mangle the literal into new URL(globalThis.__IMG2NUM_WASM_NAME__ || "img2num.wasm", import.meta.url) so lib-mode asset analysis can't inline it.
  2. generateBundle — after analysis is complete, restore the exact literal in the emitted chunk so consumers' bundlers can see it.

Notes on the implementation:

  • The sentinel uses || instead of ??=. Logical assignment is ES2021; with build.target: "es2020" it gets transpiled before generateBundle runs, the restore match fails silently, and the broken expression ships again. This constraint is documented inline.
  • The restore match is regex-based (tolerant of quote/whitespace normalization), not an exact-string compare.
  • A guard throws if the browser build's output lacks the literal, so this class of regression fails the build instead of publishing. This check would have caught 0.4.0.
  • globalThis.__IMG2NUM_WASM_NAME__ still works as a manual URL override for exotic setups.

Result for consumers

Bundling img2num is now zero-config: the bundler detects the literal, emits the wasm into the app's assets with a hash, and rewrites the URL. No ?url imports, no globals, no entry-file ordering requirements. Plain <script type="module"> consumers copying img2num.js + img2num.wasm side by side continue to get correct relative resolution.

Verification

  • grep -c 'new URL("img2num.wasm", import.meta.url)' packages/js/dist/browser/img2num.js1 (literal present in published output; was 0 on 0.4.0).
  • Rebuilt example-apps/react-js with no app-side changes: build now emits assets/img2num-MjQHcrHS.wasm (550 kB) and the vectorization flow works in the served docs build.
  • esm example unchanged (sibling img2num.wasm, relative resolution); iife/umd examples unchanged (embedded wasm, nothing to fetch); node builds unchanged.

Follow-up (post-merge)

  • `npm deprecate img2num@0.4.0 "wasm

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Walkthrough

The Vite configuration replaces preventWasmInlining with wasmUrlPlugin. The new plugin rewrites WASM URL literals during transformation, restores them during bundle generation, preserves the global override, and validates browser bundles.

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WASM URL bundling

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WASM URL plugin flow
packages/js/vite.config.js
wasmUrlPlugin rewrites WASM URL literals, restores bundler-detectable literals in generated chunks, validates browser bundles, and replaces preventWasmInlining in the Vite plugin list.

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The build change restores bundler detection but currently applies browser-specific rewriting to non-browser targets and removes the documented manual wasm URL override, which can break standalone, Node, or custom deployments. Merge should wait until target scoping and override preservation are corrected.

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Suggested labels: build-system, wasm

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Then checked the bundle line by line.
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Planned commit message:

fix: restore static wasm URL for bundler asset detection

The browser ES build published in 0.4.0 shipped a mangled wasm URL
expression, `new URL(globalThis.__IMG2NUM_WASM_NAME__ ??= "img2num.wasm",
import.meta.url)`, introduced to defeat Vite lib-mode data-URL inlining.
The same non-static form also defeats asset detection in consumers'
bundlers (Vite, webpack 5, Rollup, Parcel), which require the exact
literal `new URL("<file>", import.meta.url)` to emit and rewrite the
wasm. Bundled consumers therefore resolved the URL against their own
chunk path at runtime and hit a 404, aborting wasm instantiation.

Replace preventWasmInlining with a two-phase wasmUrlPlugin:

- transform: mangle the literal into a non-static `||` sentinel so
  lib-mode asset analysis cannot inline it. The sentinel must stay
  within build.target (es2020) syntax; `??=` is ES2021 and gets
  transpiled before generateBundle, silently breaking the round-trip.
- generateBundle: restore a bundler-detectable form via a tolerant
  regex. The restored form is a parenthesized ternary whose false
  branch is the exact literal (bundlers match the expression node, so
  detection is unaffected) and whose true branch preserves
  `globalThis.__IMG2NUM_WASM_NAME__` as a runtime override.
- guard: fail the browser build loudly if the literal is missing from
  the output, preventing this regression class from publishing again.

The plugin is gated to the browser target: node glue resolves via
__dirname and standalone glue via document.currentScript, so the URL
pattern only exists in the ES6 web glue. Standalone IIFE/UMD
(SINGLE_FILE=1, embedded wasm) and node builds were never affected.

Verified: literal and override both present in dist/browser/img2num.js;
react-js example emits a hashed img2num-*.wasm with zero app-side
changes; esm/iife/umd examples and node outputs unchanged.

Fixes bundled-consumer wasm 404 in 0.4.0.

chore: add CHANGELOG.md to the package files whitelist

npm only force-includes package.json/README/LICENSE, so release-please's
changelog was absent from published tarballs.

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Ryan-Millard changed the base branch from main to dev August 16, 2026 12:36
Address CodeRabbit review on the wasm URL restore:

- Restore a parenthesized ternary instead of the bare literal:
  `(globalThis.__IMG2NUM_WASM_NAME__ ? new URL(<override>, ...) :
  new URL("img2num.wasm", import.meta.url))`. The previous restore
  erased the override from the emitted chunk, making the documented
  manual escape hatch dead code. Consumer bundlers match the literal
  expression node, so detection is unaffected by the ternary branch.

- Early-return wasmUrlPlugin for non-browser targets. Both hooks were
  already no-ops there (node glue resolves via __dirname, standalone
  glue via document.currentScript; neither contains the URL pattern),
  but the gate makes that structural rather than a coincidence of glue
  contents. Replaces the per-hook T.copyWasm checks and the guard's
  inner TARGET condition.

- Replace em-dashes with ASCII in comments/error text (encoding got
  corrupted to CP437 mojibake in the container).

Verified: literal and override both present in dist/browser/img2num.js;
react-js example still emits hashed wasm; standalone/node outputs
byte-identical.
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