add bun bake: serve app/pages and app/server.ts

[alii]

This PR adds bun bake. It is the first step of the new Bake design (https://github.com/alii/bake-rfc).

bun bake serves the app in the working directory with Bun's dev server:

• Every .html file in app/pages/ is a page. Its path is its URL: app/pages/docs/index.html is /docs, and app/pages/docs/install.html is /docs/install. The Bun.serve route is percent-encoded, so app/pages/über.html is served at /%C3%BCber.
• app/server.ts is optional. Its default export can have routes, fetch and websocket, as in Bun.serve(). Bake starts the server. The pages and the routes are Bun.serve() routes. fetch gets each request that no page and no route matched.

bun bake --check, --watch, --hot and --no-clear-screen mean the same as before bake. bun bake --check (or bun --check bake) type checks the project first, as bun --check does for a package.json script, and does not start the server when there are type errors. With bun --check --watch bake, it type checks again after each change and starts the server when there are no errors. As for bun --check, --hot with --check runs as --watch, in both spellings.

bun bake always runs the dev server, also with NODE_ENV=production. The production build is a later PR (bun bake build).

bun bake is behind the Bake feature flag. It is on in canary and debug builds. In release builds, set BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_BAKE=1.

How it works

• bun bake goes through the normal script lookup. When the project has no bake script, no bake file and no bake binary, the CLI starts the VM with the built-in module src/js/internal/bake.ts as the program. Before this PR, that lookup printed Script not found "bake". So no project that runs today changes behavior.
• bun ./index.html already starts the VM with a built-in module (internal/html.ts). The VM flag main_is_html_entrypoint: bool becomes the enum MainEntryPoint { File, Html, Bake }. Bun__loadHTMLEntryPoint becomes Bun__loadBuiltinEntryPoint, with a named enum on both sides of the FFI. The C++ file is renamed to BuiltinEntryPoint.cpp.
• bun bake has no entry module, so vm.main becomes Option<RawSlice<u8>>, None for bun bake. set_main, reload_entry_point and load_entry_point take Option<&[u8]>, and RunCommand::boot_main takes BootMain::File { path, loader } or BootMain::Bake. Every reader of vm.main handles None: process.argv is [bun, ...arguments], as for bun -e; Bun.main is ""; import.meta.main is false in app/server.ts; the checks that compare a module with the entry find no match. An earlier version used an empty path for this, and on Windows the Bun.main getter opened "", which is the working directory.
• In reload_entry_point, a built-in entry point is chosen before the other ways to start: the patched Module.runMain applies only to a user file, and a built-in entry point also runs when transpiling is off. Before this PR, both of these ran the main path in place of internal/html.ts.
• A built-in entry point sets has_loaded before it runs. That flag means "the main module has started"; it was only set when a loaded module's path equals vm.main. Without it, a file of an unknown type that app/server.ts imports (./icon.png) was parsed as a script, and imports were never transpiled off-thread.
• The first commit moves the server startup of internal/html.ts into internal/serve_cli.ts with no change: the flags, the port retry, the startup message and the keyboard shortcuts. bun bake uses the same code, so both commands behave the same.
• --check in Bake mode type checks the project (check_project_before), because there is no entry module to start from. Under --watch, Run::start does the same check before each run (Unchecked::Project), and registers each file it reads with the watcher.
• The rule that turns --hot into --watch for --check, and the Windows watcher-manager setup, move into cli::watch_instead_of_hot_for_check and cli::set_up_watch_restarts. The argument parser and the trailing bun bake --check both use them.
• Changes to the shared code, which bun ./index.html gets too: --port 3000 works as well as --port=3000 (before, bun ./index.html ignored the first form); --host takes IPv6 addresses (::1, [::1]:3000); the o shortcut no longer stops the server when no browser opener is installed, and runs cmd /c start on Windows; under --hot the shortcut and signal listeners are added once, not once per reload.

What bun bake rejects, with an error

• A route in app/server.ts that has the URL of a page.
• Two pages with the same URL, for example docs.html and docs/index.html.
• An option in the default export other than routes, fetch and websocket.
• A default export that is not an object.
• A page with [, : or * in its path.
• No pages and no app/server.ts.
• An unknown argument, or a flag with no value.

Not in this PR

• bake.config.ts and plugin objects. Until then, [serve.static] plugins in bunfig.toml applies, because the pages are HTML imports.
• .tsx pages, bun bake build, page data functions and ISR. These are the next PRs.

Tests

• test/cli/bake/bake.test.ts (new): pages, nested index.html, routes and fetch in order; --port 0 --host localhost; --check in both spellings with a type error, and with none; a bake script that takes precedence; each error above; --help. All fail on Bun 1.4.3 except the test that a bake script still runs, which is also true on 1.4.3.
• bun --check --watch bake and bun --hot bake --check were checked by hand: with a type error the server does not start; after the fix, it starts.
• Known limit: under --watch, adding app/pages/ to a project that had nothing to serve does not restart the process, because the watcher restarts only on changes to files it loaded. bun --watch missing.ts behaves the same.
• test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html-entry.test.ts, test/regression/issue/23569.test.ts, test/regression/issue/29298.test.ts and test/bake/app-options.test.ts pass, for the bun ./index.html path.

Docs are in a separate PR, to merge when Bake is on in a release (ali/bake-docs).

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^{Updated 6:47 PM PT - Oct 17th, 2026}

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Walkthrough

This change adds experimental bun bake to serve pages from app/pages with optional server routes. It adds CLI and VM entry-point handling, shared server startup helpers, and project checking. It also adds tests and documentation.

Changes

bun bake development server

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Built-in entry-point dispatch src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/jsc/bindings/*	The VM distinguishes file, HTML, and bake entry points. A shared built-in loader dispatches HTML and bake modules, replacing the HTML-only loader.
CLI dispatch and project checks src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/check_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/mod.rs, src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs	The CLI boots bake mode when bake remains unresolved. Startup and watch-mode checks distinguish file entries from project checks. Project checking accepts an optional BeforeRead callback, and check mode delegates watch behavior to shared helpers.
Page serving and shared serve helpers src/js/internal/bake.ts, src/js/internal/serve_cli.ts, src/js/internal/html.ts	The bake module loads pages and optional server routes. Shared helpers parse serve flags, retry occupied ports, print the banner, and handle shortcuts. The HTML server also uses these helpers.
Bake validation and documentation test/cli/bake/*, docs/bundler/bake.mdx, docs/docs.json	Tests cover page and route serving, flag parsing, project checks, script precedence, invalid configurations, help, and encoded page URLs. The guide describes page mapping, server options, and command behavior. The navigation includes the guide.

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The experimental server adds page and route handling. The identified lint and help-test concerns are addressed, with no concrete current behavior or workflow risk remaining.

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Beyond the inline findings, I also diffed the html.ts -> serve_cli.ts extraction against the old code: the NODE_ENV=production ternary, unknown-argument tolerance, --help handling and the EADDRINUSE retry loop are preserved for bun ./index.html. The two BUN_PANIC sites in BuiltinEntryPoint.cpp are only reachable if the built-in module itself has the wrong shape, not from user input, and the bake.ts/bake script shadowing matches the existing script-lookup precedence the description states.

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The hunt was cut off at max_bugs and ten inline findings are posted, so this is a brief ruled-out note only: the html.ts refactor was checked for behavior preservation, the C++ panics are on an internal invariant, and the shadowing of bun bake by a project's own bake file or script is the existing lookup order.

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The items from my earlier review (duplicate page URLs, :/* in page names, --port 3000, IPv6 --host, the narrowed resolve catch, the opener spawn) are handled in this push; the remaining points are in the new inline comments. Beyond those, I also checked the refactored flag loop in src/js/internal/html.ts (i += used - 1 with the loop's own i++) for the two-argument --port 3000 form — it advances past the value correctly and --flag=value still consumes one argument, so bun ./index.html parsing is preserved.

Extended reasoning...

Second review of the same PR after a push that addressed the earlier inline findings; the diff still adds a new CLI command across Rust CLI dispatch, the VM entry-point FFI enum, and two builtin JS modules, with no auth or crypto surface. The bug hunt stopped at its finding cap rather than running dry and new inline findings are being posted, so this run only records progress and the one shared-path concern it ruled out.

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

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Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• 🔴 src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:3598 — Users whose app/server.ts imports a file with an unknown extension, like ./icon.png, get a parse error from bun bake in…

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Beyond the inline finding, I also walked every consumer of the new Option vm.main() in the latest push (bundler is_main, RuntimeTranspilerStore, jsc_hooks including the WASM path, Bun.main, process.argv, $0 in the shell, fetch() relative paths, the dev-server hash key, note_commonjs_evaluation): each old is_empty()/equality check maps to is_none()/is_some_and, and [eval]/[stdin] keep a Some main, so those paths are unchanged. The once-only shortcut listener guard in serve_cli.ts also covers both callers now.

Extended reasoning...

The latest commits make VirtualMachine.main an Option<RawSlice<u8>> and touch about a dozen readers across the bundler, transpiler store, module loader hooks, Bun object, process, shell and fetch; I checked each site against the pre-change semantics and found them behavior-preserving for every existing entry mode. The one outstanding item is the bun --check bake --hot Hot-to-Watch gap posted inline.

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

• 🟡 src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs — nit: a developer who runs bun --inspect-brk bake never gets the first-line pause; after the debugger connects, app/server.ts runs straight through, unlike bun --inspect-brk app.ts. The breakpoint is only armed when is_main is true at src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:2521, and under bake vm.main() is None, so jsc_hooks.rs:2236 makes is_main false for every module. Fix: under MainEntryPoint::Bake, arm the first-line breakpoint on the first user module the built-in entry imports (app/server.ts), or report that --inspect-brk is not supported with bun bake instead of silently acting as --inspect-wait.

  Why this was flagged

  The user runs bun --inspect-brk bake (bake feature flag on) with an app/server.ts. Arguments.rs:1347-1361 sets set_breakpoint_on_first_line: true and wait_for_connection: true, and jsc_hooks.rs:575-591 stores both on vm.debugger. run_command.rs:2829 boots with BootMain::Bake, so vm.set_main(None) at run_command.rs:1066 and vm.main() stays None for the whole run. When app/server.ts (or any import) is transpiled, jsc_hooks.rs:2236 computes is_main = main.is_some_and(...), which is false, so the set_breakpoint_on_first_line = is_main && ... expression at jsc_hooks.rs:2521-2526 never consumes the one-shot flag and the parser never emits the debugger statement. The process waits for the inspector to connect and then evaluates app/server.ts without pausing, so the developer cannot stop before the server code runs. With a file entry (bun --inspect-brk app.ts) the main module matches and the break happens. The base branch has no bun bake; bun --inspect-brk ./index.html imports no user JS, so this is the first built-in entry where the flag is silently lost.

  Verification: nit. A developer runs bun --inspect-brk bake with an app/server.ts. src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:2521 arms the first-line breakpoint only as is_main && .... Under bake, run_command.rs:1060 maps to (None, None), so vm.main() is None and is_main is false for every module, and the process waits for an inspector then runs app/server.ts straight through. Not a regression on the base (bake is new).

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