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Problem

  • Bun.build({ check: true }) passes when main.ts imports App.svelte (an onLoad plugin) and App.svelte imports lib.ts with a type error. With App.svelte as the entry point, the build fails (bun check - a TypeScript type checker builtin to Bun #44361).
  • The type checker cannot read App.svelte, so lib.ts is not reached. to_check.retain(is_reached) in check_named_files (src/sema/driver/lib.rs) drops the file.

Fix

  • The bundler passes each import into or out of a plugin-loaded file (TypeChecked::plugin_imports).
  • check_named_files follows these imports, as it follows the scripts of a page. A file of the program that App.svelte imports is reached, so it is checked.
  • The program does not change. A new error is in a file that bun check checks too.
  • Verified: test/cli/check/plugin-imports.test.ts (84 tests, 41 fail on main). check.test.ts and entry-points.test.ts: same as main. Self-reviewed: 33 concerns raised, 33 addressed (Notes).

Background

  • A program is one tsconfig.json project that the type checker loads. --check reports only files that the entry points reach in it.
  • Considered: name those imports as entry points, or load the project again with them as roots. Both turn clean builds red (Notes).

Downsides

  • A build that passed with such a type error now fails. A .ts file that imports a named export of a component fails with TS2614 until the project declares it.
  • Still silent: a file that the tsconfig.json of the importer does not include, JavaScript where allowJs is off, and every such file without a tsconfig.json.
  • Cost: +0 allocation and file system calls without plugins. About +5.7 allocation calls for each such import. Binary: +11,520 bytes of text.
Notes

How it was found. By probing, not from a user report. The review of #44361 handled the entry-position case ("an entry that cannot be checked by name must still have its JS/TS imports named for the check"). This is the position that the Svelte plugin README documents: entrypoints: ["src/index.ts"].

The rule. The reach walk follows what the bundler has bundled for the imports of a plugin-loaded file.

  • The program has the imported file: the file is reached, and checked with the options of that program. This is also so for an import that a plugin adds to a TypeScript file.
  • Only a plugin can read the imported file (App.svelte), or only a plugin provides it (App.vue?type=script): it is not checked. What it imports is followed.
  • The program does not have the imported file: it is not checked. It is followed for what it imports, for example A.svelte -> a.js -> B.svelte -> b.ts.
  • A referenced project has the file: it is left to that project, as for a direct import.
  • The file is in node_modules: it is not followed.
  • A plugin loads the file as text or as an asset: it is not code, and it is not followed.

Still not checked (as on main).

  • A file behind a component that the program of the importing file does not have: the tsconfig.json does not include it, there is no tsconfig.json, it is JavaScript and allowJs is off, or only the bundler resolves the import to it (for example dist/index.js where TypeScript takes dist/index.d.ts).
  • The code in a component. svelte-check and vue-tsc check it.
  • main.ts -> widget.js -> App.svelte -> lib.ts where the type checker does not read widget.js and no plugin loads it.
  • An import of a component that the bundler drops: a type-only import, or a branch that define removes.
  • The other kinds of import that the type checker does not see in a bundle: require() in TypeScript (documented as not covered), the browser map, .tsx beside .ts, main fields, per-package paths, an onResolve redirect between ordinary files. This PR is about the one kind that has no remedy in TypeScript.
  • The other doors (bun --check, bun test --check, the dev server): they have no bundle. The page rule scans the file itself, so it works there. A scan of the script of a component could do the same (bun lint, bun check: native support for framework components (Vue, Svelte, Astro), as bun fmt has #45163).

Two rules by entry position. A plugin-loaded file that is an entry point still names what it imports (main's rule from #44361). A named file is checked by its nearest tsconfig.json, and a named .js file turns allowJs on. So one graph can give two results: with main.ts and App.svelte both as entry points, the imports of App.svelte are named. The test "a plugin-loaded file that is an entry point names what it imports" pins this.

Not in this PR: a file that the program lacks. The first revision checked such a file in one more program of the same project. The reviews found clean builds that this turned red, so the rule is out of this PR:

  • JavaScript that TypeScript does not take was a root of that program, which turned allowJs on for it (TS2578 for a // @ts-expect-error above an import of a .js file).
  • A root was whatever the bundler resolved. For a workspace package that is built to dist, that is JavaScript that TypeScript never reads for the import (TS7006 with allowJs and checkJs).
  • With references, the extra program built the referenced projects again: 4 programs and 104 checked files where main has 2 and 51.

A follow-up can add the files as roots before the first program loads. It needs the written specifier (ImportRecord::original_path), so that TypeScript decides what an import leads to.

Measured. The binaries are release builds of main at 017b243 and of this change on that commit. The tools are gdb breakpoint counts on the mimalloc entry points and on the function that checks one file, a ptrace syscall counter, and size.

  • Checked build without plugins (201 files): +0 allocation calls (112,323 to 112,339 on main, 112,323 to 112,339 here). File system calls are the same.
  • bun check: 69,979 allocation calls on main and here. bun build without --check: 41,097 on main and here.
  • 300 components with 600 such imports: +3,400 allocation calls (174,135 to 174,238 on main, 177,537 to 177,628 here). access calls: 308 on both. readlink calls: 10 on main, 13 here.
  • Programs: 1 wherever main has 1. With 100 modules that main.ts imports and 100 more behind a component, no tsconfig.json: 101 files are checked on main and here.
  • Host::plugin_imports is called once for each program. Without plugins there are 0 lookups.
  • Binary: +11,520 bytes of text (106,738,870 to 106,750,390).
  • Verdict matrix, 73 rows (a row is a fixture and an entry point): 20 missed errors are now reported, 53 rows are unchanged, no clean row is red.
  • 16 layouts that a self-review wrote as clean builds (JavaScript beside TypeScript, a built workspace package with bun-plugin-svelte, a TypeScript name loaded as text, a package with paths of its own): all pass on main and here. 6 failed on the first revision of this PR.
  • 50 builds of a tree with two projects and four components give one result.
  • git merge-file against claude/compile-aot-on-check (43c2fcf): 1 conflict region, in type_check, where this change adds a block before let mut entry_points. Both sides stay. The exhaustive TypeChecked pattern in that branch then needs plugin_imports.
  • bun run rust:check-all x86_64-pc-windows-msvc aarch64-apple-darwin: 2 ok.

Tests. The tests are in a new file. check.test.ts and entry-points.test.ts do not pass in a debug build on a small machine: many tests time out there on unchanged main. The fixtures of the new file use noLib with declared global types, so a test takes about 1 s in a debug build. Seven tests load the libraries of TypeScript or the compiler of Svelte. Only those have a timeout, and only in a debug build. The six project kinds of entry-points.test.ts are rows of the new file. Four tests use the bun-plugin-svelte of this repository.

Self-review. The last self-review raised 33 concerns about the revision before this one. Most were about the extra program for a file that the program lacks. That rule is removed (see above). The others are done here: the bundler passes an import into a plugin-loaded module only if the plugin returned code, a file of the files option that a plugin loads is a file of the project, the lookup through links takes source files only and is a binary search, the docs link points at the Bun.build section, and the tests pin the clean builds.

Questions for the maintainer.

  1. Should the entry position follow the same rule? Today the imports of a plugin-loaded entry point are named: each goes to its nearest tsconfig.json, and a named .js file turns allowJs on.
  2. Should a follow-up check a file that the program of the importing file lacks? If yes: in the project of the importing file, or in the project of the file (the page rule)?

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Reproduced on main with a release build. The layout:

  • main.ts imports App.svelte.
  • A plugin loads App.svelte with onLoad.
  • App.svelte imports lib.ts, which has a type error (TS2322). The tsconfig.json includes lib.ts.

Bun.build({ entrypoints: ["main.ts"], check: true, plugins }) passes and writes the bundle. With App.svelte as the entry point, the same build fails with TS2322.

The first test of test/cli/check/plugin-imports.test.ts is this layout. On main, 41 of the 84 tests in that file fail. With this change, all 84 pass in a debug build and in a release build.

PR: #45693

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Bun.build now passes plugin-import relationships to the type checker. The checker follows eligible imports and checks discovered source files. Documentation and tests describe and cover which plugin-loaded files and imports are checked.

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Plugin-import type checking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Plugin-import metadata and host support
src/sema/resolve.rs, src/sema/driver/host.rs, src/sema/driver/lib.rs, src/sema/baselines/lib.rs, src/lint/graph/lib.rs, src/bundler/options.rs
The type-check input and Host interface now carry plugin-import metadata. Disk stores normalized import mappings, and host wrappers expose the mappings or return an empty collection.
Build import collection and handoff
src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, src/runtime/cli/check_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs
BundleV2::type_check collects eligible plugin-import relationships. check_for_build converts module names and groups source or plugin-loaded imports for the type checker. The no-bundle check path supplies an empty iterator.
Import traversal and checking
src/sema/driver/lib.rs, test/cli/check/plugin-imports.test.ts, docs/runtime/check.mdx, packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts
The checker follows plugin imports and checks newly discovered source files. Tests cover import and project configurations, plugin behavior, and boundaries. Documentation describes which plugin-loaded files and imports are checked.

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Some imports outside the importing project’s checked files still receive no type diagnostics. The remaining test timeouts also conflict with project guidance. These bounded concerns warrant owner awareness and a guideline fix before merge.

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This version is a narrower design than the one I reviewed earlier: there is no second program pass any more, and a file the importer's program lacks is followed but not checked (docs/runtime/check.mdx and the commit title say so). The PR description's "Fix" section still says such a file "becomes one more root of the same project", which the code at src/sema/driver/lib.rs:4160-4199 no longer does — worth updating so a human reviewer reads the right contract.

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the reach walk in check_named_files: cycles through plugin-only modules are bounded by is_followed, the through_links importer list is built in index order so the binary_search_by_key holds, and the per-module realpath now runs only when named is Some and skips lib and declaration files.

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The change adds a plugin-import edge table from the bundler (src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, src/bundler/options.rs) through check_command.rs into the sema Host and the reach walk of check_named_files in src/sema/driver/lib.rs, plus docs, types and a 1,072-line test file; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Since my earlier review the second-pass/allowJs design was removed, which resolves the concerns I raised there, but the PR description still describes the old behavior. One pre-existing nit survived verification and is posted inline; the sema driver change is non-trivial enough that a maintainer should still look.

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… files of the program

The type checker cannot read what only a plugin can read, like App.svelte,
so it did not reach what App.svelte imports: main.ts imports App.svelte,
which imports lib.ts, and a type error in lib.ts did not fail the build.

The bundler passes each import into or out of the code that a plugin has
loaded (TypeChecked::plugin_imports). The reach walk of check_named_files
follows them beside the scripts of a page. A file of the program that
such a file imports is reached, so it is checked. What only a plugin can
read or provides is followed for what it imports.

The program is not changed. A file that it does not have is not checked,
as before: a file outside include or files, JavaScript where allowJs is
off, and what only the bundler finds for an import.

A plugin-loaded file that is an entry point still names what it imports.
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