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Problem

  • bun init over an existing package.json adds @types/bun and typescript again when dependencies or optionalDependencies lists them. After bun add @types/bun@1.1.0, bun init -y adds devDependencies["@types/bun"] = "latest". The nested install prints warn: Duplicate dependency: "@types/bun" specified in package.json and replaces 1.1.0 with 1.4.3.
  • Cause: the three checks in InitCommand::exec (src/runtime/cli/init_command.rs:704-739) each read one or two groups.

Fix

  • One predicate answers all three checks. A package is listed when dependencies, devDependencies or optionalDependencies has it. Expr::has_any_property_named loses its last caller and is deleted.
  • A peerDependencies entry counts only for typescript, which bun init writes there. bun install does not install every peer, so @types/bun beside a peer is still added.
  • Correct: the checks read the manifest before any insert. Inserts and the install gate are unchanged.
  • Verified: test/cli/init/init.test.ts, 7 new tests (main fails 5, 2 are controls), 29 of 29 pass. Self-reviewed: 20 concerns raised, 18 addressed, 2 in part (Notes).

Background

  • bun init adds @types/bun to devDependencies and, without --minimal, typescript to peerDependencies. It runs bun install only when it added an entry.
  • Considered counting a required peer as listed: with install.peer = false, @types/bun is not installed and bun check fails.

Downsides

  • Release text grows by 1,024 bytes. The checks run 91 to 214 more instructions per bun init. No new allocation or syscall.
  • Not fixed: @types/bun only under peerDependencies still gets a devDependencies entry, also when the peer is pinned.
  • Still open: a workspace member gets both packages when only the workspace root lists them.
Notes

Where this comes from. No issue and no user report exist. The defect was found by a read of the code. The notes of #44992 record it first, under "Not changed here". These docs commands write the manifests that trigger it: bun i @types/bun (docs/guides/install/from-npm-install-to-bun-install.mdx:21) and bun add @types/bun --minimum-release-age 259200 (docs/pm/cli/install.mdx:305) write dependencies.

Repro (release builds of main 91e7e3b and of this branch, real registry):

D=$(mktemp -d); cd "$D"
bun add @types/bun@1.1.0
bun init -y
cat package.json
main this PR
added by bun init -y devDependencies["@types/bun"] = "latest", peerDependencies.typescript = "^7", name, module, type, private, scripts.typecheck the same without the devDependencies entry
nested install warn: Duplicate dependency: "@types/bun" specified in package.json no warning
installed @types/bun 1.4.3 1.1.0

bun init still sets the other fields and still installs typescript in this example. #44992 covers type and private.

The rule. A package counts as listed when it is a key of a group, with any value. The groups that count are dependencies, devDependencies, optionalDependencies, and the group that the new entry goes to. So peerDependencies counts for typescript, which bun init writes there, and not for @types/bun.

@types/bun listed in main this PR
no group add to devDependencies same
devDependencies add nothing same
dependencies add (warning, pin replaced) add nothing
optionalDependencies add add nothing
peerDependencies, required or optional add same
typescript listed in main this PR
no group add ^7 to peerDependencies same
devDependencies or peerDependencies add nothing same
dependencies or optionalDependencies add ^7 add nothing

Why a peer entry does not count for @types/bun. The first version of this PR counted a required peer as listed and read peerDependenciesMeta for an optional one. Two manifests showed the cost. Both were run on release builds:

  • An optional peer (the manifest that docs/guides/install/add-peer.mdx prints): bun install does not install it. When it counted as listed, bun check failed with error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'bun', because the tsconfig.json that bun init writes has "types": ["bun"].
  • A required peer with install.peer = false in bunfig.toml: bun install installs no peer. When it counted as listed, @types/bun was not installed and bun check failed. On main it passes.

With the rule above, bun init gives the same result as main for every manifest that lists @types/bun only as a peer. The check does not read peerDependenciesMeta. The cost is the second Downsides bullet.

Tests. On main, 5 of the 7 new tests fail: the first three rows of adds no dependency when ... and the first two rows of adds only the dependency that is missing when .... Two pass on main on purpose. devDependencies lists @types/bun and peerDependencies lists typescript is the control for the groups that main already reads. peerDependencies lists @types/bun fails if a peer entry counts for another group.

Measurements. Release builds (--profile=release) of the same checkout with main's init_command.rs and with this PR's. bun init ran with a closed registry port and an empty cache. Each count is the same in two runs.

bun init instructions in the checks manifest lookups (group / name) allocator entry hits syscalls
-y, empty directory 611 → 702 4 / 0 → 4 / 0 61 → 61
-m -y, empty directory 67 → 205 2 / 0 → 4 / 0 40 → 40
-y, over its own output 1,194 → 1,348 4 / 3 → 4 / 3 45 → 45 108 → 108
-m -y, over its own output 357 → 571 2 / 1 → 4 / 1 32 → 32 105 → 105
-y, 200 entries under dependencies 1,257 → 8,780 4 / 3 → 4 / 5
  • Instructions: gdb stepi from the first group lookup to the first call after the checks. perf and valgrind are not installed.
  • Allocator entry hits: gdb breakpoints on the malloc, mi_* and operator new entry symbols of the parent process. Syscalls: a ptrace counter. strace is not installed.
  • The last row is the cost of the fix for a large manifest: each of the two names is now also looked for in dependencies.
  • Size: InitCommand::exec 17,856 → 19,266 bytes, 3,554 → 3,828 instructions (nm -S, objdump -d). Text of bun: 107,074,067 → 107,075,091 bytes (size). bloaty is not installed. The measured build already has no Expr::has_any_property_named (420 bytes on main): nothing called it, so the linker dropped it.
  • Defect path, against a local registry that counts requests: 6 requests and 3 nested installs on three manifests → 0 and 0.
  • package.json, the file list and stdout are identical between the two builds on 11 of 11 manifests that do not hit the defect (cmp). Four of them list @types/bun only as a peer.

Other shapes. An earlier version of the predicate was also built as a helper function that looks the groups up again for each package. It was 512 bytes smaller and made 8 group lookups on a fresh -y, against 4 on main. Not built: an inline loop in the two live checks (it leaves the third check on one group), and a delegate to bun --only-missing add (one child process for each group, and bun add saves latest as a resolved range).

Overlap with open PRs. Counted with git merge-tree, conflict hunks in init_command.rs, main → this branch:

This PR is not based on any of them.

Not changed here.

  • A package.json that marks typescript optional in peerDependenciesMeta and has no peerDependencies entry for it still gets peerDependencies.typescript = "^7", as on main.
  • bun create starts its nested install only when dependencies or devDependencies has an entry (src/runtime/cli/create_command.rs:883-890, :1061). That is a different question in a different command.
  • The other add-if-absent checks of InitCommand::exec (entry point, .gitignore, README, tsconfig, typecheck script) keep main's rules.
  • A manifest that lists both packages gets no nested install, as on main for the two groups it read. Run bun install.

Reviews. Self-review, the 2 concerns addressed in part: it sampled how often public manifests have these shapes, and I did not verify those rates, so they are not cited. The sites under "Not changed here" have no tracker. After the review on this PR, a peer entry no longer counts for another group, and the new tests use the default timeout. The mordant lint job then reported Expr::has_any_property_named as public and unused, so it is deleted here with its line in a bun_parsers unit test.


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/init/init.test.ts

…up already lists

The three checks in InitCommand::exec that decide which packages to add
each looked in one or two groups of the manifest. A package under
another group got a second entry, and the nested install ran.

Look up the four dependency groups once and ask one predicate for every
package that bun init adds. An optional peer counts only in the group
that the new entry goes to, because bun install does not install it.
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bun init now checks all package dependency groups before adding template dependencies. The PR also removes Expr::has_any_property_named and its related test assertion.

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Init dependency detection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependency detection and init tests
src/runtime/cli/init_command.rs, test/cli/init/init.test.ts
InitCommand::exec checks dependencies, devDependencies, optionalDependencies, and peerDependencies. Tests cover existing and missing TypeScript and @types/bun declarations.

AST property lookup cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove expression property lookup
src/ast/expr.rs, src/parsers/json.rs
Removes Expr::has_any_property_named and the JSON parser assertion that tested it.

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Status: ready for review.

How I reproduced it, on a release build of main 017b243 with the real registry:

D=$(mktemp -d); cd "$D"
bun add @types/bun@1.1.0
bun init -y
cat package.json

bun init -y adds devDependencies["@types/bun"] = "latest" beside the entry in dependencies. The nested install prints warn: Duplicate dependency: "@types/bun" specified in package.json and replaces 1.1.0 with 1.4.3. With this PR, bun init -y adds no @types/bun entry, and 1.1.0 stays installed.

PR: #45836

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Updated 3:05 AM PT - Oct 21st, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit fc56f7e has 2 failures in Build #129852 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 45836

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-45836 executable, so you can run:

bun-45836 --bun

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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 widening needs_dependencies to all four groups changes bun init --react over a manifest that lists react only in devDependencies/peerDependencies — it does not, because the React templates return from exec before this block (src/runtime/cli/init_command.rs:615-621), so needs_dependencies only ever iterates the empty Blank/Library list. The optionalDependencies + --omit=optional case was also examined; it is the same shape as the required-peer finding already posted, not a separate issue.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the three "is this default dependency already listed" checks in the existing-package.json path of bun init into one predicate over the four dependency groups plus an optional-peer exception, and adds two test.each matrices against a local 404 registry. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Three inline findings were posted (required-peer with install.peer=false, peerDependenciesMeta without a peerDependencies key, and a per-test timeout nit), which is why this is not an approve; the note records sibling paths checked and ruled out.

Comment thread src/runtime/cli/init_command.rs
Comment thread test/cli/init/init.test.ts Outdated
Comment thread src/runtime/cli/init_command.rs Outdated
bun install does not install every peer: it skips an optional peer, and
install.peer = false skips all of them. A package.json that lists
@types/bun only under peerDependencies keeps the devDependencies entry
that bun init adds on main, and the check does not read
peerDependenciesMeta.

The new tests use the default timeout.
@robobun robobun changed the title init: do not add @types/bun or typescript that another dependency group already lists init: do not add @types/bun or typescript that dependencies or optionalDependencies lists Oct 19, 2026
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Follow-up to the review, in f4ef844:

  • A peerDependencies entry no longer counts for a package that bun init writes to another group. A package.json that lists @types/bun only as a peer now behaves as on main, also with install.peer = false and with an optional peer. The check does not read peerDependenciesMeta.
  • Both new test tables use the default timeout.
  • Not changed: a package.json that marks typescript optional only in peerDependenciesMeta still gets peerDependencies.typescript = "^7", as on main.

The title and the description now state this rule, with new measurements.

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

Comment on lines +439 to +441
expect(after.manifest).toEqual({ ...manifest, ...added });
// `bun init` added a dependency, so the nested `bun install` runs and asks for @types/bun.
expect(after.requests).toContain("/@types/bun");

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🟡 nit (optional): maintainers get a test matrix that never checks how bun init exited, unlike its sibling matrix at test/cli/init/init.test.ts:411. The second test.each at test/cli/init/init.test.ts:439-441 asserts only the manifest and the registry requests, while initOverPackageJson already returns exitCode, stdout and stderr. test/CLAUDE.md says to always check exit codes. Fix: assert exitCode is 0 for every row (for example expect(after).toMatchObject({ exitCode: 0 }) as the first matrix does), so a crash or error exit after the manifest write still fails the test.

Why this was flagged

The second parameterized test added at test/cli/init/init.test.ts:414-442 runs bun init over a prepared package.json via initOverPackageJson (test/cli/init/init.test.ts:352-381), which returns { manifest, requests, stdout, stderr, exitCode }. The test body at test/cli/init/init.test.ts:439-441 only checks after.manifest and after.requests; after.exitCode is never read. The sibling matrix in the same diff checks it at test/cli/init/init.test.ts:411. test/CLAUDE.md:201 reads "Always check exit codes and test error scenarios". The nested install failure is ignored by let _ = bun::spawn_sync_inherit(...) at src/runtime/cli/init_command.rs:943, so bun init exits 0 here today and the assertion is cheap; without it a future crash or nonzero exit that happens after package.json is written passes these three rows. The base branch has neither test, so this is a convention slip in the new code only.

Verification: nit. In the diff of test/cli/init/init.test.ts, the second matrix asserts only after.manifest and after.requests; after.exitCode (returned by initOverPackageJson) is never read. test/CLAUDE.md:201 reads "Always check exit codes and test error scenarios". A bun init that writes the manifest, triggers the install request, and then exits nonzero would still pass these three rows.

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