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Problem

• replMode hoists every top-level declaration to the global object, also the parser's own (src/js_parser/repl_transforms.rs:106). The parser prints the same names for every input.
• A decorated class from an earlier input runs the decorators of a later class. With accessor, a.x throws TypeError: Cannot read from private field.
• In bun repl, a named import overwrites a variable named import_path.

Fix

• repl_persists hoists a name only when it is the module scope's member for that name. Others stay in the wrapper function.
• The imported module is kept in a temporary, not in import_<module>. import d, * as ns now binds d.
• A REPL input is one part, so tree shaking moves no class above its helper import.
• Verified: test/js/bun/transpiler/repl-transform.test.ts (30 new tests), test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts (6 new). All fail on main. Self-reviewed: 31 concerns raised, 28 addressed.

Background

• replMode wraps each input in a function. It prints var name; outside for each top-level declaration, so the next input finds the name on the global object.
• A lowering (decorators, accessor, using) declares temporaries beside the statement it rewrites. A scope maps each declared name to its symbol in members. A temporary is in no such map.
• Considered a test against module_scope().generated: it misses a temporary that another scope registers (js_parser: declare temporaries hoisted out of enum initializers inside the enum closure #38761).

Downsides

• replMode output changes for inputs with a named import or a lowered construct (14 of 47 corpus outputs).
• .text grows 11,008 bytes. A plain replMode input costs 123 more instructions (715 to 838). Outside replMode: 0.
• Still hoisted: __dirname and __filename (repl: read __dirname and __filename from the globals #43487).

Notes

Repro

• One Bun.Transpiler({ loader: "tsx", replMode: true }), one vm context, each input evaluated with importModuleDynamically: vm.constants.USE_MAIN_CONTEXT_DEFAULT_LOADER.
• class P { @add(100) v = 1 }, class Q { @add(200) v = 2 }, [new P().v, new Q().v] gives [201, 202] on main and [101, 202] here. add is amount => () => initial => initial + amount.
• class A { accessor x = 1 }, var a = new A(), class B { accessor x = 2 }, a.x throws on main and gives 1 here.
• bun repl: var import_path = "./data.json", import { join } from "path", import_path prints the path module on main. After a named import, imp suggests import_node_path. An await using line stopped with Ctrl+C is never disposed when a later line also has a using: both read the global __bun_temp_ref_1$.

Origin and reach

• No user reported this. A session found it while it prepared parser: require the tsconfig options in ParserOptions::init, fix scanImports on decorators and accessor fields #45557, which keeps bun repl on legacy decorators because of it. No issue is filed.
• The wrong decorator result and the TypeError need Bun.Transpiler({ replMode: true }) and an evaluator in which import() resolves. vm.runInContext(code, context) without importModuleDynamically rejects every lowered or importing input with ERR_VM_DYNAMIC_IMPORT_CALLBACK_MISSING, before and after.
• In bun repl, accessor is a SyntaxError and decorators use the legacy TypeScript lowering, before and after. bun repl reaches the bug through using, the helper imports of legacy decorators, and named imports.
• js_parser: give every standard decorator lowering temporary its own name #40895 (merged) gave every decorator temporary its own name inside one parse. This PR is the same collision between two parses.

Also fixed by the same rule

• Temporaries of a class expression in a declaration, a parameter default, a field initializer, a loop head and an enum initializer inside a block, a namespace or a function.
• The disposal stack of a lowered using: two inputs that overlap each dispose their own resource.
• The bun:wrap helper aliases and the JSX runtime aliases of autoImportJSX: a function keeps the JSX runtime of its input when a later input has another @jsxImportSource.
• With treeShaking: true or exports: 42; class A {} evaluates to the class, a class declared twice keeps its order, and a class with a static accessor no longer throws TypeError: __privateAdd_... is not a function.

Found in review of this PR

• import d, * as ns from "m" did not declare d on main and on 1.4.3: a later d throws ReferenceError: d is not defined. The import arm now declares the default name for every form and reads it from where the statement keeps the module. The output of the other five forms does not change.
• The test of an input that throws does not depend on whether the vm shows a var that is declared and never assigned.
• The replMode JSDoc says that JSX makes the wrapper async only with autoImportJSX.
• The Ctrl+C test prints its marker from an immediate, so the signal arrives after the REPL installed its handler.

Not changed

• var __dirname, __filename; is still printed outside the wrapper. Both are module scope members. repl: read __dirname and __filename from the globals #43487 owns them.
• target: "bun" with an import and a require still starts with var {require}=import.meta; (Do not hoist import.meta.require in Bun.Transpiler replMode #43533). Under target: "bun" a top-level using is not lowered, becomes var r; r = ... and is never disposed.
• Every lowered input still gets an async wrapper, because it starts with await import("bun:wrap").
• The reported value of an input still comes from the lowered statements: a class with class decorators reports the result of __runInitializers.
• A top-level enum whose initializer holds a lowered class expression still throws ReferenceError, because the lowering drops the declaration of the temporaries (js_parser: declare temporaries hoisted out of enum initializers inside the enum closure #38761). Before, it worked by accident after an earlier input had left the name on the global object.
• One class expression evaluated more than once shares its temporaries, as under bun run (js_parser: declare decorator lowering temporaries per iteration inside loops (stacked on #38734) #38933, js_parser: declare decorator lowering temporaries per evaluation in parameter defaults and field initializers #38904).
• With treeShaking, trimUnusedImports or exports, an input that only imports still prints nothing. minify.identifiers still renames a persisted name. Whether replMode ignores or rejects these options is a separate decision (Bun.Transpiler: make treeShaking remove unused declarations and their imports #38352).
• export default and export function are still printed as written inside the wrapper.
• The comment at src/runtime/cli/repl.rs:2151 still says that the transform rewrites every top-level s_local. Its point holds for a using that the input wrote. This PR does not edit that file.
• The bundler's __esm wrapper also lifts declarations out of a function. It does not need the rule: the chunk renamer makes names unique and the closure runs once.

Relation to open PRs

• parser: require the tsconfig options in ParserOptions::init, fix scanImports on decorators and accessor fields #45557 adds a comment in transform_for_repl that says the transform makes the temporaries of a TC39 class global. After this PR that is not true. The switch of bun repl to the tsconfig decorator options is in no PR yet.
• js_parser: relocate the module-level declarations of a lowered top-level using out of its try #38284 makes the declarations beside a top-level using persist. It merges without a conflict. The tests here do not depend on whether a using binding persists.
• replMode: decide between an object literal and a block in the parser #43770 and js_parser: relocate module-level vars from brace-less bodies for the bundler and the REPL #45705 touch the same lines of bun.d.ts and of the two test files. The one that lands second has a textual conflict.
• js_parser: put a lowered accessor #x on the object before its first initializer #42643 and Standard decorators: keep a decorated #private member a member of the class #45351 change the storage of accessor. The tests here use decorated members, which need their temporaries in any lowering.

Designs considered

• A test against module_scope().generated in the declaration arm only: the smallest patch. It leaves the import bindings on the global object and fails open for a temporary that another scope registers.
• A flag on the symbol or on the statement: each producer must set it, and it records on a shared type a fact that members already holds.
• A fix in the lowerings or a name that is unique per input: the REPL transform is the one place that moves a binding out of the wrapper, for every producer and both entry points.

Self-review

• 31 concerns raised, 28 addressed.
• Rejected: a guard that keeps __dirname and __filename in the wrapper. The input would still read "", and repl: read __dirname and __filename from the globals #43487 removes the declaration.
• Rejected: keep using unlowered in replMode. It decides what a using line persists and reports, which js_parser: relocate the module-level declarations of a lowered top-level using out of its try #38284 does.
• Rejected: switch treeShaking off for replMode in Bun.Transpiler. That is an option contract. The parser change here only stops the class move.
• The first version sorted the generated imports to the front of the wrapper. The review showed that the class still moved above the statements before it, so the move is stopped at its source.
• The first version kept the module in a wrapper variable named import_<module>. The review showed that it hid a variable of that name in the same input.

Measurements (release builds of 3880151 without and with this diff, linux x64)

• Instructions in the REPL transform per input (qemu-x86_64 -one-insn-per-tb -d exec, exact): const x = 1; x + 1 715 to 838. Named import 913 to 957. class A { accessor x = 1 } 1,665 to 1,811. class P { @dec v = 1 } 1,896 to 2,229. A using line 1,183 to 1,223. repl_persists runs once per declared name.
• Whole transformSync of the plain input, main thread: about 62,500 instructions without the diff and 62,900 with it. The run-to-run spread is 300 to 400, so the difference is at the noise floor.
• Outside replMode: 0 instructions in the REPL transform. 0 of 7,440 outputs differ (1,860 files of test/bundler/transpiler with 4 option sets). The transpiler cache version is not changed.
• mimalloc calls per transformSync (qemu, 11 mi_* entry points): plain 45 to 45, named import 65 to 64, accessor class 138 to 125, using 109 to 98.
• replMode output of a 47-input corpus: 14 differ (5 imports, 9 lowered inputs). 11,542 to 10,775 bytes.
• Binary: .text grows 11,008 bytes (llvm-size). 9,921 of them are second copies. The linker folded the TypeScript and JavaScript copies of the transform before. It no longer folds repl_transform_with_hoisting (9,150 bytes) and apply_repl_transforms (771 bytes), because the import conversion now creates a symbol, and that code differs between the two parsers. Counted once, the REPL transform grows from 13,443 to 14,620 bytes (llvm-nm -S). A rename of the import's namespace symbol in place would keep the copies identical. I chose the temporary, because it does not change a symbol after the visit pass.
• Heap per lowered class input (100 classes in one context, after Bun.gc(true)): +1 JSLexicalEnvironment, +1.9 SymbolTable, +1 WeakMap, +351 bytes. Without the diff, 0 WeakMaps stay per class, which is the bug.
• Bytecodes of the accessor: constructor 10, getter 9, setter 10 on both builds. Accessor set and get, 10 interleaved runs of 1e7: the minimum is 18.1 ns without the diff and 18.6 ns with it. The runs without the diff spread over 2.2 ns, so no difference is resolved.
• Names the input did not write, on the context after a session with 2 accessor classes, 2 decorated classes, an await using line and a named import: 15 to 0. In bun repl after a using line and a named import: 5 to 0.
• Not available on the machine: valgrind, perf, bloaty, strace.

Suites run on a debug build

• test/js/bun/transpiler/repl-transform.test.ts, test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts, test/bundler/transpiler/ (transpiler.test.js, es-decorators.test.ts, decorators.test.ts, decorator-metadata.test.ts, runtime-transpiler.test.ts), test/integration/bun-types/bun-types.test.ts.
• The Windows lanes were not run locally. The two new terminal tests are in the block that is todoIf(isWindows).

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Walkthrough

REPL parsing now avoids tree-shaking part splitting. REPL transforms persist input-declared bindings and keep generated bindings inside the wrapper. Import conversion and regression tests cover binding persistence, helper visibility, module reuse, and resource disposal.

Changes

REPL Binding Persistence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parsing and declaration persistence src/js_parser/parse/parse_entry.rs, src/js_parser/repl_transforms.rs, test/js/bun/transpiler/repl-transform.test.ts, test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts	REPL parsing uses one part. Transforms hoist bindings that persist in module scope and keep other declarations and generated helpers inside the wrapper. Tests cover lowered declarations, tree shaking, JSX runtimes, errors, resource disposal, and context persistence.
Import conversion and persistence src/js_parser/repl_transforms.rs, packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts, test/js/bun/transpiler/repl-transform.test.ts, test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts	Import transforms use wrapper-local module references. Default, namespace, named, and side-effect imports follow separate conversion paths. Documentation and tests cover dynamic imports, module reuse, binding collisions, and completion.

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Status

• Reproduced on bun 1.4.3 and on a debug build of main, with Bun.Transpiler({ replMode: true }) and one node:vm context. After class P { @add(100) v = 1 } and class Q { @add(200) v = 2 }, new P().v is 201. With accessor, a.x throws TypeError: Cannot read from private field.
• Reproduced in bun repl: after import { join } from "path", the variable import_path holds the module, and globalThis has import_node_path. After import d, * as ns from "path", d is not defined.
• The 36 new tests in test/js/bun/transpiler/repl-transform.test.ts and test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts fail on main and pass on this branch.
• CI passed on f977e39396 (build 130233). All review threads are resolved. The PR is ready for a maintainer's review.
• PR: replMode: keep helper imports and lowering temporaries in the wrapper #45915

[claude]

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

[robobun]

#46105 is stacked on this PR. It forwards auto_import_jsx in bun repl, and it relies on the rule here that keeps the bindings of a generated import in the wrapper of their input.

Two numbers measured for #46105 that belong to this PR (release LTO builds of 25ef6936bd and of e5f204e9f8):

• The new || p.options.repl_mode makes the single-part condition in Parser::_parse (parse_entry.rs:1064) run 6 instructions per parsed module where the parent runs 2, under bun build and under bun run (gdb stepi, both instantiations). The compiler now tests will_wrap_module_in_try_catch_for_using from a register on a merged path, before the two compares.
• Release .text is +11,264 bytes over the parent (size).

One wording in packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts: the replMode text lists "automatic JSX" among the inputs for which the transpiler imports helpers. That holds only with autoImportJSX: true. new Bun.Transpiler({ loader: "tsx", replMode: true }).transformSync("(<b/>).via") prints the bare jsxDEV_7x81h0kn(...) call in a sync wrapper, on this branch too.

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[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest push (fab857f, c7d0fa6) and found no bugs; both points from my earlier inline comments are now addressed, and a human look is still worthwhile since this rewrites the replMode hoisting rule and the import conversion in the parser, and bun.d.ts has a code owner.

What was reviewed:

• repl_persists/repl_binding_persists against the module-scope members map, link following for merged vars, and the four new debug_assert! sites: the only parser-synthesized star import (parse_entry.rs:1503) is gated on the bundler's unwrap_commonjs_to_esm, so it cannot reach them.
• The restructured import branch: default-only, default+named, default+star, star-only, named-only, and side-effect-only forms each still emit one import() and bind every name; the named-import temp from generate_temp_ref replaces the printable import_<mod> symbol.
• The SLocal split: non-persisting decls keep their original kind inside the IIFE and statement order is preserved; the single-part gating in parse_entry.rs only applies when repl_mode is set.
• Tests cover both transformSync and transform, -e and interactive bun repl; the SIGINT terminal test at repl.test.ts:1132 sends the signal after the line's synchronous console.log, which is a few instructions before the handler is installed at repl.rs:1660 — a narrow window, not a correctness issue with the change.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites src/js_parser/repl_transforms.rs so only names the input declared at module scope are hoisted as var for REPL persistence, restructures the import-to-import() conversion to use a fresh temp ref and to bind a default alongside a namespace import, and disables tree-shaking parts under repl_mode in parse_entry.rs; it also updates the replMode JSDoc in bun.d.ts and adds tests in both the transpiler and REPL suites. No security-sensitive surface is touched. Approval was withheld because the diff is a non-trivial parser transform (about 377 changed lines in the transform alone) and packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts is covered by a CODEOWNERS entry, so a human reviewer is expected to look regardless; the bug hunt ended on a dry streak with no findings, and the two prior inline findings were fixed in c7d0fa6.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.