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Problem

• files: { "./src/config.ts": ... }, the override example in bun.d.ts, bundles the file on disk with success: true and 0 logs. A virtual ./src/generated.ts fails with Could not resolve: "./generated.ts".
• file_map_from_js (src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs:103) stores keys as written. Lookups use absolute paths. A relative entrypoint key aborts debug builds: assertion failed: crate::is_absolute(self.text).

Fix

• FileMap::put stores a ./ or ../ key once, under path.resolve(key). The written key stays an alias for an import with that text.
• The output of such a key keeps the directory and name that the key text gave it on 1.4.x.
• Verified: test/bundler/bundler_files.test.ts (21 new tests, 16 fail without the fix), 4 unit tests.
• Self-reviewed: 35 concerns raised, 32 addressed.

Background

• FileMap holds the files of a build and answers each entrypoint and import.
• Draft, stacked on bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605. Merge bundler: keep the import kind of server-side HTML imports so import() and require() of the manifest link #38621 and bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 first.
• Notes start with five questions. Compile TypeScript to machine code ahead of time: bun build --compile --aot #45631 answers three of them the other way.
• Considered bundler: resolve relative Bun.build files keys against the cwd #38650 (drops the text match), a disk route (one file, two routes), and docs only.

Downsides

• Builds that use a ./ key by its text change. The module path is absolute (onLoad args.path, __filename). Imports resolve from its directory, not the cwd.
• Builds with no ./ key do not change: 238 compared builds equal main.
• Two spellings of one path with different contents throw TypeError. A ./ key costs 3 more allocations and 24 instructions per import record. .text grows 11,264 bytes.

Notes

Questions for @Jarred-Sumner

Your open #45631 (--aot) also reads the keys of files (in_memory_files_by_path in src/bundler/aot/options.rs, told_path in src/bundler/aot/plugins.rs). It differs from this PR on three points. The merged already_read (src/runtime/cli/check_command.rs:617) agrees with #45631 on the first point.

Point	#45631	This PR
A key with no ./, such as src/config.ts	a path from the working directory	a name: only its exact text matches it
Two keys for one path, with different contents	the later key wins	TypeError
What an onLoad plugin gets for a ./ key	the key as written	the absolute path

1. Is a key with no ./ (src/config.ts, worker.js) a path from the cwd too? In this PR it is a name, as on 1.4.x: only an import or entrypoint with exactly that text gets it, and its module path is the key text. Your code reads it as a path, and path.join("./src", "config.ts") returns that spelling. A yes is one predicate in FileMap::put and file_spelled. A probe build in the self-review changed 47 of the 238 builds that I compare for keys without ./. The docs sentence "any other key is a name" is a proposal until you answer: if it ships, a later yes is a second breaking change for the same keys.
2. Two keys that name one file in different ways and have different contents: TypeError, or does the later key win? This PR throws. Compile TypeScript to machine code ahead of time: bun build --compile --aot #45631 lets the later key win.
3. What does a plugin get for a ./ key? Here it gets the absolute path (onLoad args.path, the importer of onResolve), so a key over a file on disk looks like that file to a plugin. Compile TypeScript to machine code ahead of time: bun build --compile --aot #45631 tells it the key as written, as 1.4.x does.
4. Does an import of ./x still match a ./ key by its text from any directory? In this PR it does, after the key beside the importer. So the key ./config.ts also answers import "./config.ts" in src/db/index.ts and inside a dependency, before a real file beside that importer. 1.4.x does the same, and it is the only way a ./ key works there. To drop it is one line in FileMap::import. A build that imports a key by its text from another directory then fails.
5. Which release takes the changes for a ./ key (see "What changes")? Merged now, they ship in the next release. A build that needs the 1.4.x behavior writes the key, and each import of it, without ./. A yes to question 1 takes that way out.

A path.resolve() key already gives the documented result on 1.4.x. If the rule of this PR is not wanted, the other fix is a docs change: absolute keys in the two examples.

Merge order

1. bundler: keep the import kind of server-side HTML imports so import() and require() of the manifest link #38621, then bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605. bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 asks for that order.
2. bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605, then this PR. This branch contains the branch of bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 (merged at d3663aa). Against that branch the diff is the key rule alone: +1,766/-164 in 9 files, of which +403/-158 is Rust that ships. After bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 is squash-merged, a merge of main into this branch conflicts in 3 hunks that both branches have (two in resolve_import_records, one in the imports of the test file).
3. Fix use-after-free of BuildMessage.position.file: real lifetimes for Source, Path, ImportRecord and resolve results #46834 (lifetimes for Path and resolve results) and this branch change the same lines of FileMap in bundle_v2.rs. Compile TypeScript to machine code ahead of time: bun build --compile --aot #45631 reads FileMap.map, which is private here. The second of each pair to merge needs a small change.

This PR is a draft until #38605 is on main and a maintainer answers the questions above.

What changes for a key that starts with ./ or ../

The key is now the file at path.resolve(key).

• An import that resolves to that path gets the file. On 1.4.x only an import with exactly the key text did. This is the fix for both documented examples.
• With the text of its file, a ./ key that an import reaches gives the same build as the file: output text, metafile, [hash] names, class names of a CSS module. This holds when no tsconfig.json, package.json or external setting applies to the path (see Limits). Two tests compare the builds.
• The path of the module is absolute (<cwd>/src/a.ts, was ./src/a.ts):
  • onLoad gets the absolute path in args.path. A filter anchored at ./ no longer matches. onResolve gets the absolute path as importer and an absolute resolveDir.
  • The inlined __filename and __dirname are absolute ("<cwd>/src/a.ts", was "./src/a.ts"). With target: "node" and format: "cjs" the same is true for import.meta.path, dir and url.
  • position.file of a log message is absolute (was ./src/bad.ts).
  • Imports in the file resolve from the directory of the key. On 1.4.x the resolver used the cwd for every import of such a module (src/resolver/resolver.rs:1392, "backwards compat with Bun 1.0 behavior"). Example: files: { "./src/a.ts": 'import "./helper.js"' } with helper.js in the cwd. It builds on 1.4.x and fails here with Could not resolve: "./helper.js". With helper.js in both directories, the file beside the key is bundled. A key above the cwd (../up.ts) that imports a package of the cwd fails the same way. One test has these builds, and the same keys written as names, which keep the 1.4.x result.
  • A plugin can resolve a specifier to the text of the key in its own namespace. If another import also names the key, the bundle has two copies of the module. On 1.4.x it had one.
• The display path of a key that an import reaches is the path from the cwd (src/a.ts, was ./src/a.ts). It shows in bundle comments, metafile keys and log text. It is an input of [hash] names and of CSS module class names, so those change once.
• The output of the key (an entry point, the chunk of a dynamic import, an imported page) has the directory and name of its path from the cwd. For a key whose text is normalized, that is what the key text gave it on 1.4.x. One test has five builds with [dir] in the chunk name that give the 1.4.x outputs. A key such as ../proj/src/a.ts in a directory that is not on disk was out/proj/src/a.js and is out/src/a.js now.
• An import of ./x looks for the key at that path beside the importer first, then for the key with that text. 1.4.x tries the text first.
• A bare specifier in CSS or HTML (@import "a.css") names a ./ key beside the importer. On 1.4.x only an absolute key did.
• An import in a module whose path is a name (src/a.ts) gets a ./ key beside it (./src/both.js for ./both.js), as it gets an absolute key on 1.4.x.
• files answers an import before the external option applies, as it does for an absolute key. With external: ["*"], 1.4.x leaves ./config.ts external. Here the key is bundled, and an import that the disk resolver answers (./config) stays external.
• Two spellings of one path (./a.ts, ./x/../a.ts, /cwd/a.ts) are one file. With different contents Bun.build throws TypeError: files: the keys "./a.ts" and "./x/../a.ts" both name "/cwd/a.ts" and have different contents. On 1.4.x each key matched its own text. The same spelling twice (a\b after a/b) replaces the contents, as on 1.4.x.
• The key is resolved against the cwd at the Bun.build() call, not at build time.
• An in-memory HTML page that server code imports is bundled like a page on disk (this is bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605, and it changes more for a ./ key):
  • On 1.4.x the import of a ./index.html key kept its text. The built server loaded the emitted page at startup, from any directory. Now the server has the manifest, and Bun.serve finds the files of a manifest from the cwd. So it serves the page only when started from the outdir, like a server with a page on disk.
  • await import("./index.html") of such a page throws ReferenceError: require_<name> is not defined. A page on disk does the same on 1.4.3. bundler: keep the import kind of server-side HTML imports so import() and require() of the manifest link #38621 fixes both. A static import and require() give the manifest.

What does not change

• A build with no ./ or ../ key. I compared 238 builds with absolute keys and names on 1.4.3, on main, on bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 and on this head. 235 are equal on all four, and the other 3 differ only between 1.4.3 and main. One exception is read from the code: on Windows a lookup now ignores the letter case of the drive. Main stores a key with an upper-case drive letter and looks it up as written. The Windows lanes of CI ran the test for it.
• An entry point names a ./ key by its text, as on 1.4.x. Any other entry point goes to the disk resolver, as on 1.4.x: an absolute path, or a relative path that is not the text of a key (src/entry.ts for the key ./src/entry.ts). With the file on disk, the module reads the key and has the settings of the file, and the default root is the directory of the entry point. On 1.4.x that build ignored the key. With a directory that has no such file, the build fails with ModuleNotFound. With no such directory, Bun.build() throws ENOENT: failed to open root directory at the call, on every version (Bun.build, bun build: use the working directory when the default root does not exist #45176). Before the disk resolver, Bun joins such an entry point onto the directory above the cwd and asks files for an absolute key there. That lookup is kept from feat(bundler): add files option for in-memory bundling #25852, and one test pins it.
• A bare import in JavaScript (import "chart.js") does not name a ./ key beside the importer. The disk resolver reads it as a package. An absolute key beside the importer still answers a bare import, as on 1.4.x.
• The default root, [dir] for a directory that is not on disk (bundler: compute [dir] for entries whose directory does not exist on disk without re-joining the cwd #38679), and an entry point that an onResolve plugin declines (bundler: resume the shared resolve pass for imports that went to onResolve plugins #45408).

Limits

• Settings. A files hit does not pass the disk resolver, so the module gets nothing that the resolver adds for its path: the tsconfig.json settings (jsx, experimentalDecorators, emitDecoratorMetadata, useDefineForClassFields), sideEffects, type and browser of a package.json, and the external option. An absolute key does the same on 1.4.x. Example: an override of a .tsx file in a project with jsxImportSource: "preact" imports react/jsx-dev-runtime when the import is ./page.tsx, and the preact runtime when it is ./page (the disk resolver answers that one). If one build has both imports, the first one that the bundler resolves decides: of 60 builds on the release build, 47 import the react runtime and 13 the preact runtime. An absolute key does the same on 1.4.3 (49 and 11) and on bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 (47 and 13). On 1.4.x a ./ key was ignored, so the build was stable. No open PR changes this. A comment on this PR has two prototypes for it and their faults. One test pins both results.
• Entry points. A files hit for an entry point does not take the shared steps that bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 gives an import. An in-memory .tsx entry point gets the default JSX options, not those of the build (bundler: apply the jsx option to entry points that come from files: #38609), and an in-memory HTML entry point of a server build is bundled for the server (bundler: bundle HTML entry points for the browser on every entry path of a server build #38594). That is so on 1.4.x for an entry point with the text of its key, and it does not change here. For that reason an entry point that is the absolute path of a ./ key goes to the disk resolver. With no file on disk it fails with ModuleNotFound, where the absolute key builds.
• Other readers. A ./ key is the file for an import and for an entry point. A macro and what it imports, the resolver's own reads of package.json and tsconfig.json, and the type check of a type-only import (bundler: type-check the files text of an entry that a plugin loads or that only types use #46320) still read the disk, with success: true.
• The disk resolver does not see files. An import without the extension (./config) and a tsconfig.json paths alias reach only a key for a file on disk (bundler: resolve Bun.build files imports without the extension, like on disk #41285).
• Symlinks. Bun does not resolve a symlink in a key, and the disk resolver gives a module its real path. So a key for a file behind a symlink must be its real path. A key written through node_modules/pkg has no effect when pkg is a link (the isolated linker makes such links). The docs say so, and one test pins it. The branch robobun/301c3c23/files-symlink-keys has a change for this, with no PR.
• An absolute key with .., // or /./ is matched only by an import or entrypoint with exactly that text, as on 1.4.x, and the TypeError for two spellings does not see it. The docs say to write the key as path.resolve() returns it. To normalize such a key in put is a change for absolute keys, so it is not in this PR.
• Windows. An absolute key that both routes reach is two modules (C:/proj/a.ts from files, C:\proj\a.ts from the resolver), on main and here. This is read from the code. A ./ key is one module: its path has the spelling of the resolver (File.native).
• process.chdir() after the Bun.build() call: a key, and the display path of a key that an import reaches, keep the cwd of the call. All other paths use the cwd at build time, as on main: the disk resolver, the relative imports of a module whose path is a name, outdir, and the output name of an entry point with the text of its key. The output of a ./ key that the disk resolver reaches is then named by the path of its file, as on main. Keep the process's working directory in one place, bun_core::cwd #40372 moves every read of the cwd to one place.
• A race that this diff does not cause. ASAN reported it once in about 15,500 builds on a debug build: heap-use-after-free in MiniEventLoop::loop_ptr (src/event_loop/MiniEventLoop.rs:184). The caller is parse_worker::run_from_thread_pool_impl, after the bundle thread dropped its event loop. event_loop: post to a MiniEventLoop through raw pointers and publish last #37883 is the open fix.

Not needed for this PR, but open

• The display path of an absolute key. An absolute key that an import reaches shows as /cwd/src/a.ts, and a ./ key shows as src/a.ts (File.pretty), like a file on disk. So a ./ key and its absolute twin have different metafile keys and [hash] names. bundler: give files imports the same display path as disk files #38620 has a change for absolute keys. It is in conflict with main.
• The disk resolver and files (question 5 in an earlier version of this description). check: true reads files as an overlay on the disk. For the bundler, a hook like standalone_module_graph is not enough: it is an exact-path check before finalize_result (src/resolver/resolver.rs:1346), so it gives no extension probing and no settings. A probe in the self-review needed hooks in 7 resolver functions (about 180 lines), and it cannot read a package.json or tsconfig.json that is only in memory, because DirInfo is one map for the process. The key rule in FileMap::put stays in both designs.
• A warning for a key that nothing reads. A probe in the self-review warned on 11 of the 245 files builds of the test suite, and only 3 of those keys were without effect.

Overlap with open PRs

• Compile TypeScript to machine code ahead of time: bun build --compile --aot #45631: see the questions. Fix use-after-free of BuildMessage.position.file: real lifetimes for Source, Path, ImportRecord and resolve results #46834 and Keep the process's working directory in one place, bun_core::cwd #40372 (one place for the cwd) touch the same code.
• bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605: see the merge order. bundler: copy HTML url assets resolved through files: or an onResolve plugin #38635 has the same change to the files branch of resolve_import_records.
• bundler: compute [dir] for entries whose directory does not exist on disk without re-joining the cwd #38679 changes [dir] for a directory that is not on disk. This PR does not need it and does not touch [dir].
• bundler: give files imports the same display path as disk files #38620 has the change to the debug assertion in LinkerContext.rs too (both assertions first in bundler: allow relative FileMap keys without tripping absolute-path debug asserts #32716).
• Bun.build, bun build: use the working directory when the default root does not exist #45176 reads entry_point_original_names. This PR does not write to it.
• bundler: resume the shared resolve pass for imports that went to onResolve plugins #45408 deletes run_resolver. If it merges first, the hunk of this PR in run_resolver goes away in the rebase.
• bundler: type-check the files text of an entry that a plugin loads or that only types use #46320, bundler: remove unsafe from bundle_v2, ParseTask, LinkerContext and the bundler thread pool #40438 and Bun.build / Bun.Transpiler: remove unsafe from JSBundler, the completion task and JSTranspiler #40405 read FileMap.map or config.files.map, and bundler: type-check the files text of an entry that a plugin loads or that only types use #46320 and Compile TypeScript to machine code ahead of time: bun build --compile --aot #45631 iterate it. The field is private here (is_empty(), contains(), get()), so the second of each pair to merge needs an iterator on FileMap.

Two debug assertions

• enqueue_entry_item asserted that the path of an entry point is absolute. LinkerContext::generate_isolated_hash asserted that the display path is not the text of the path. A key that is a name (virtual:entry.ts, worker.ts) as an entry point stopped debug builds at both. Release builds always built it. Both assertions now accept a path that is a name in files.

Measurements (release builds of #38605 at d3663aa and of this head, same machine)

• instructions:u, one CPU, 2,001 modules and 19,946 import records, interleaved runs, median: no files 542.11 M (bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605: 542.21 M), an absolute key 573.05 M (574.16 M), a name 573.02 M (574.11 M), a ./ key 574.70 M (574.22 M). So a ./ key adds 24 instructions per import record, and a build with an absolute key or a name costs about 55 fewer. With no files the difference is inside the spread of the runs (quartiles 541.98 to 542.17 M and 542.07 to 542.26 M). A second fixture with no files (the 20,000 modules of edgecase/DeepImportDiamondDAG) gives 1,589.64 M against 1,590.80 M.
• Release binary: .text +11,264 bytes (82,165,641 to 82,176,905), .rodata +0, file +12,288 bytes. The 25 changed functions sum to +11,240 bytes, and FileMap::put is 6,434 of them.
• FileMap::put, 64,000 ./ keys and then the same keys written with \ and other contents: 949.00 M instructions for the whole process (bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605: 567.13 M), and 0.09 s of CPU time (0.04 s, the second version of this PR 16 s). 128,000 different ./ keys: 924.28 M (498.34 M). So a ./ key costs about 3,300 instructions more to store.
• Syscalls, documented example (./src/config.ts on disk): no syscall names the file (bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605: 1 open, and the disk text). The entry point lookup makes no syscall.
• Allocations to store a key, read from the code: 6 for a ./ key (the joined path, the display path and the alias are new), 3 for any other key as on main. Windows has 1 more for a ./ key (the path as the resolver spells it).

History of this PR

• The first version also gave a relative key over a file on disk the disk resolver's route, read a key with a file extension as a path, and changed the default root. A review found 10 problems, and a self-review asked for the key rule alone.
• The second version was the key rule alone. A second self-review found that it must not merge alone, that its lookup of a relative entry point from the cwd changed builds with no ./ key, and that put searched all keys on a repeated key.
• The third version carried bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 and a [dir] rule as commits. A third self-review asked for a stack: this PR on the branch of bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605, and [dir] in its own PR. It also found that Compile TypeScript to machine code ahead of time: bun build --compile --aot #45631 answers three questions of this PR the other way.
• This version is the key rule on the branch of bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605. The output of a ./ key has the name that 1.4.x gave it, so the [dir] rule is gone from this PR. A smaller review of the new parts found 6 problems and 8 smaller points. All are fixed: the default root, the output name after process.chdir(), the base of a relative importer and the specifiers . and .. are as on main.
• Third self-review: 35 concerns raised, 32 addressed, 3 not done. Not done: the shared steps for an entry point from files (it belongs with bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605), the Windows spelling of an absolute key, and the warning for a key that nothing reads.
• Second self-review: 32 concerns raised, 28 addressed, 3 not done, 1 rejected. First self-review: 44 raised, 40 addressed, 3 not done, 1 rejected.
• The first version is on the branch robobun/40800912/files-relative-keys-disk-route.

Verification

• bun bd test test/bundler/bundler_files.test.ts: 62 pass, 1 skip (needs Windows). The release build gives the same.
• This PR adds 21 tests. On a release build of bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605: 16 fail, 4 pass, 1 skip. Two of the 4 are builds that must give the 1.4.x result (the outputs of a ./ key, and entry points). On a release build of main and on the released 1.4.3, the 9 failing tests of bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 fail too. On a debug build of main the child process stops at assertion failed: crate::is_absolute(self.text).
• 4 unit tests for put, the conflict rule, import lookups and entry point lookups. bun run rust:miri -p bun_bundler passes (7 tests).
• test/cli/check/check.test.ts: "a file that's only in files can have a relative name" is no longer skipped on debug and ASAN builds. It passes on the debug build and on the release build.
• Debug build: test/bundler/bundler_plugin.test.ts 68 pass, bundler_naming.test.ts 27, bundler_bun.test.ts 22, bundler_html.test.ts 26, html-import-manifest.test.ts 10, bundler_splitting.test.ts 209, test/js/bun/css/doesnt_crash.test.ts 61.
• Release build: bun-build-api.test.ts 89 pass, bundler_edgecase.test.ts 188, bundler_splitting.test.ts 209, bundler_plugin.test.ts 68, bundler_naming.test.ts 27, bundler_bun.test.ts 22, bundler_html.test.ts 26, html-import-manifest.test.ts 10, and the 6 Bun.build and files tests of check.test.ts.
• cargo clippy for bun_bundler and bun_runtime. cargo check for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc. macOS and Windows were not run locally. The Windows lanes of CI ran the test file on the two heads before this one, and it passed there.
• Related to Option to provide all source files for bundler from memory #5145. The closing comment there shows ./ keys. Take that shape with an import between two keys in a subdirectory (./src/index.ts imports ./lib/a.ts). It fails on 1.4.3 and on main with Could not resolve: "./lib/a.ts", and it builds on this branch. A search of the issues found no user report of this symptom.
• Baselines: the released 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, a release build of main at 7d240c1, and a release build of bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 at d3663aa.

Credit

• bundler: resolve relative Bun.build files keys against the cwd #38650 had the rule that a relative key is a path from the cwd, spelled once in FileMap::put, and the first version of these tests.
• bundler: allow relative FileMap keys without tripping absolute-path debug asserts #32716 had the change to the two debug assertions.

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no test proof · iteration 4 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/check/check.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_files.test.ts

[robobun]

^{Updated 3:17 PM PT - Oct 25th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 4331347 has 1 failures in Build #132775 (All Failures):

• test/js/first_party/ws/ws-proxy.test.ts - code 1 on 🪟 2019 x64

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🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 46667

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-46667 executable, so you can run:

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[robobun]

Status: draft. This branch is stacked on #38605 and contains that branch. Merge order: #38621, then #38605, then this PR. Against #38605 the diff is the key rule alone.

How I reproduced the original problem, on bun 1.4.2, on bun 1.4.3 and on a release build of main (7d240c1): in a folder with src/index.ts (it imports ./config.ts, which is on disk), Bun.build({ entrypoints: ["./src/index.ts"], files: { "./src/config.ts": ... } }) returns success: true with 0 logs and bundles the copy on disk. files: { "./src/generated.ts": ... } fails with Could not resolve: "./generated.ts". Both keys are the examples in bun.d.ts. With this branch both builds use the in-memory text.

Five questions need a maintainer's decision. They are at the start of the notes in the description. #45631 answers three of them the other way.

CI on the current head: 180 of 181 jobs passed. The red job is test/js/first_party/ws/ws-proxy.test.ts on Windows 2019 x64. This PR does not touch it, and it fails on main too. test/bundler/bundler_files.test.ts passes on every lane, with all 63 tests on Windows x64 and Windows aarch64.

This PR replaces #38650.

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Walkthrough

FileMap now resolves build file keys against the build working directory and uses them for entry-point and import resolution. Runtime setup handles key conflicts and root selection. Tests and documentation cover key matching, path normalization, import behavior, and output paths.

Changes

Build file key resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Key classification and storage src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs, docs/bundler/index.mdx, packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts, test/bundler/bundler_files.test.ts	FileMap stores resolved paths and written key spellings, normalizes separators, and reports conflicting contents. Runtime setup populates the map through its methods. Documentation and tests cover key resolution and conflicts.
Entry-point, import, and output path resolution src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs, test/bundler/bundler_files.test.ts, test/cli/check/check.test.ts	Entry-point and import lookup distinguish written keys from path matches and apply different lookup rules to absolute, relative, and bare specifiers. Resolver results preserve display paths. Tests cover entry points, imports, plugins, and output paths.
Runtime setup and root selection src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs, src/runtime/api/js_bundle_completion_task.rs, docs/bundler/index.mdx	Root selection constructs a path under the filesystem top-level directory when its conditions are met. The completion task checks whether config.files is empty. Documentation states the exact-key condition for the root rule.

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 18217

Builds using separator-variant keys or virtual files under symlinked directories can select unexpected contents. These bounded cases warrant owner awareness and a follow-up, but do not establish a broad merge blocker.

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things in the new FileMap helpers and ruled them out: the path_buffer_pool guards in file, file_spelled, file_in_dir and file_beside drop at return, but every returned (&[u8], &File) borrows the map-owned key and value, not the pooled buffer; and spelled.put_assume_capacity is called without a matching reserve, but on StringHashMap that method is an alias for the growing put, so it cannot overflow.

Extended reasoning...

The change reworks the Bun.build files in-memory map in src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs into a cwd-joined two-level structure with new resolution precedence rules, plus callers in JSBundler.rs, computeChunks.rs, types, docs and a large new test suite. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface, but it is a user-visible behavior change to module resolution with ten confirmed findings posted inline and the hunt stopped at the bug cap rather than running dry, so a human maintainer should weigh the design rules and the regressions.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

[robobun]

A commit for this PR: a files key finds its file through a symlinked directory

Commit 2aea08557b is one commit on top of the head of this PR (cfd54fa1d9). See the comparison. git cherry-pick 2aea08557b applies it.

It is not a separate PR. A review of it said that it belongs here. This PR documents the limit ("The key must be the real path of the file"). The thread at bundle_v2.rs:953 asks to close that limit in this PR. The commit also edits the lookup code that the threads at :941, :953, :1028 and :1188 discuss.

What breaks today

• With src -> real-src, Bun.build({ entrypoints: ["./src/index.ts"], files: { "./src/config.ts": ... } }) returns success: true, 0 logs, and the text on disk. The resolver names the module real-src/config.ts, and FileMap::get asks for that path.
• The same happens for a package that is linked into node_modules (a workspace link, the isolated linker) and for an absolute key below /tmp on macOS.
• In a matrix of 28 link shapes, 4 bundle the in-memory text on 1.4.3, 9 on this PR, and 26 with the commit. One more is a conflict of two keys and is now a build error.
• In that matrix this PR turns one shape from in-memory text (1.4.3) into disk text: an entry point written exactly like a relative key, below a linked directory. The commit restores it.

What the commit does

• FileMap::bind runs once on the bundle thread, before any lookup. BundleV2::set_file_map is the one way to set the map, and it calls bind.
• For each path key, bind asks the resolver for the path that the resolver gives a file in that directory. When a symlink makes that another path, bind records real path -> key in a table beside the map (linked).
• FileMap::found reads the table when a lookup misses the map. A lookup that hits the map does not change. The bytes of a key are stored once.
• The lookups return a Found in place of the (path, file) pair. File::is_on_disk is now OnDisk::is, with one cell for the key and one for its real path.
• Resolver::real_path_below_links answers from a cached DirInfo that has a real path. For a directory with none it applies the rule of dir_info_uncached to the disk with lstat. It adds nothing to the directory cache.
• A module of the in-memory route keeps the path of its key, also when an import reaches the key by the real path. So one key is one module.
• Two keys that are paths to one file and have different contents fail the build. The log has the existing message and a note with the real path.

Cost

Release builds of a7dfada779 and of the commit on that base.

• No files: 0 more syscalls. Instructions for a 2,001-module build: 505.1 M against 505.2 M (median of 7, the spread of the base is 4.2 M).
• With path keys: 1 lstat for each directory level from the root to a key directory, once for each build. That is +15 for 100 keys in 10 directories (5 shared levels and the 10 directories), and +1 for the docs example with /app/index.ts.
• No syscall for each key. No syscall on the JS thread.
• About 350 instructions for each path key in bind (10,000 keys). A name costs nothing that the measurement can see.
• A 200 MB key through a link has the same peak RSS as the same key by its real path.
• .text grows by 17,664 bytes.

How it meets the open threads

• :941 (a key that names a directory) and the file-symlink part of :953: the commit does not change them. OnDisk::is is the one function that answers "is a file on disk here" for a key and for its real path. An lstat there that accepts a regular file only fixes both shapes for both paths.
• :953 (a key that differs from the file name in case): not changed. The fix in the thread takes the in-memory route when the real path is not the key. For a key below a linked directory, an import that the resolver resolves to the file still gets the text on disk, because the lookup asks for the real path. The table answers that lookup.
• :1028 and :1188 (the route of a key): the table has no flags. A key through a link takes the route of its own File, like the same key by its real path. The rule that this PR picks applies to both.

Not covered

• A key that is itself a symlink to a file.
• An onResolve plugin that returns the path through the link for a key written by its real path.
• A link that is first made during the build.
• external paths through a link.
• The root rule on the JS thread (contains_entry_point) runs before bind.
• Windows and macOS were not run. cargo check passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin. The tests use junctions on Windows.

Tests

test/bundler/bundler_files.test.ts has 18 new tests. On a debug build of this PR, 15 fail and 3 pass (those 3 guard behavior that must not change). With the commit: 62 pass, 2 skip. The commit also replaces the "must be the real path" sentence in docs/bundler/index.mdx and bun.d.ts.

[robobun]

All ten review findings reproduce on cfd54fa. 1821799 answers them with a smaller change. The disk route, the reading of src/a.ts as a path, the [dir] change and the default root change are gone. One rule stays: a key that starts with ./ or ../ is the file at path.resolve(key), and it behaves as that absolute key does on 1.4.x. Each thread has its answer.

@Jarred-Sumner, three rules need your decision. The notes in the description start with the details:

1. Is a key with a file extension and no ./ (src/a.ts) a path from the cwd too? In this PR it stays a name, as on 1.4.x.
2. Does an import of ./x still match a key by its text from any directory? In this PR it does, after the key beside the importer.
3. Which release takes the changes for builds that use a ./ key by its text today? The module path becomes absolute (onLoad args.path, __filename), and the imports of the key resolve from its directory, not from the cwd.

If the rule is not wanted, the other fix is a docs change: absolute keys in the two examples.

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[claude]

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• 🔴 src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs:1246 — Users with a relative files key in a subdirectory (src/a.ts, ./src/a.ts, ../a.ts) whose in-memory text imports ./helper…

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[robobun]

The current head (da2faca) covers the abort for a name entry point. I do not open a second PR for it.

I checked it on a debug and ASAN build with a matrix of 40 builds, one child process each. It has 12 keys: 9 names (such as virtual:entry.ts, my-pkg, https://host/a.js and a/../b), /virt/abs.ts, ./rel.ts and C:/app/index.ts. Each key is built as an entry point, as an import, and as an import that an onResolve plugin declines. The other four builds are a name entry point with a syntax error, the same name twice, a name entry point with an onLoad plugin, and C:/app/index.ts from the cwd /.

Head	Builds that exit 134
cfd54fa	21 of 40: 14 at crate::is_absolute(self.text), 7 at the pointer assertion in generate_isolated_hash
da2faca	0 of 40

One defect with the same cause is still present at this head. It is also on main and on 1.4.x, so this PR does not cause it.

• run_resolver sets the display path of a files import on a local copy (src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs:3137) and passes the untouched Result to enqueue_parse_task (:3146). The parse task copies that path. The module reaches the linker with pretty and text as one slice.
• generate_isolated_hash then computes the display path on a pool worker and stores it in the shared Source.path. Other chunks read that path at the same time.
• Repro: two entry points import https://host/a.js from files, with naming: "[name]-[hash].[ext]". An onResolve plugin returns undefined for that import. On a debug build of da2faca, 80 identical builds give 3 different sets of output names (54, 13 and 13 builds). On a release build of cfd54fa, 200 builds give 3 sets (175, 20 and 5). Without the plugin each gives 1 set.
• The metafile key of a declined import also differs from the build without the plugin. A name shows as https:/host/a.js, not https://host/a.js. An absolute key shows as its path from the cwd (for example ../../../virt/abs.ts), not as the key (/virt/abs.ts).
• resolve_import_records writes the path back before ParseTask::init (:7377). The same write-back in run_resolver is 8 added and 2 removed lines. A release build of main at 7d240c1 with only that change gives 1 set in 200 builds, equal to the set without the plugin.
• bundler: give files imports the same display path as disk files #38620 has this write-back together with a change of the display rule. bundler: resume the shared resolve pass for imports that went to onResolve plugins #45408 removes run_resolver. I did not open a third PR for it.

The write-back, on main at 7d240c1

At da2faca the first assignment is inside if path_primary.pretty.as_ptr() == path_primary.text.as_ptr(). The write-back goes after that block.

@@ run_resolver, the `files` branch
-                    let file_map_result = _file_map_result;
+                    let mut file_map_result = _file_map_result;
                     let mut path_primary = file_map_result.path_pair.primary;
@@
-                        path_primary.pretty = self.arena().alloc_slice_copy(path_primary.text);
+                        // SAFETY: arena outlives the bundle pass.
+                        path_primary.pretty = unsafe {
+                            bun_ptr::detach_lifetime(
+                                self.arena().alloc_slice_copy(path_primary.text),
+                            )
+                        };
+                        file_map_result.path_pair.primary = path_primary;

A different fix for the abort is on the branch robobun/900aa062/files-name-entrypoint-assert. It is one commit on cfd54fa and does not apply to da2faca.

• It keeps both assertions as they were. FileMap lookups return the file they found. The caller builds the module path only for a new module, with a display path of its own. A files entry point does not go through assert_file_path_is_absolute, path_with_pretty_initialized and dupe_alloc.
• It changes the display path of an entry point whose name relative() rewrites (https://host/a.js, pkg/, a/../b). So it depends on the answer to question 1.

[robobun]

More evidence for question 5 (should the disk resolver see files).

The first entry under Limits says that a key over a file on disk gets the react or the preact runtime by import order. I built a fix for that two times. I opened no PR for it. A review found faults in both versions, and the faults come from the rule, not from one line of code.

The rule was: a key that is also a file on disk replaces only the contents of that file. A key with no file stays as it is on main. That rule needs a check "is this key a file on disk".

version	what it does	size	branch
1	each creator of a module for a key takes the resolver's result for the path of the key	+304 -192, 5 call sites	robobun/6b70addd/files-key-disk-route
2	FileMap::resolve gives no answer for a key that is a file on disk, so the resolver resolves the import	+74 -7	robobun/6b70addd/files-key-resolve-gate

Both stop the split. With version 2, 60 of 60 equal builds import the preact runtime (main 179664e: 32 react, 28 preact).

Faults of version 2. I ran each on release builds of main 179664e and of the branch:

1. The check reads the resolver's cached directory listing. A script writes a file beside itself and builds it with a key. The first build of the process gives react in 7 of 12 runs and preact in 5. Main gives react in 12 of 12.
2. An import that only files joined to the directory of the importer changes, with no log. import "leaf.ts" with packages: "external" stays external. A relative key ./src/mod.ts that imports ./leaf.ts gets <cwd>/leaf.ts from disk, not the key at <cwd>/src/leaf.ts.
3. A key at a path that is a directory or a symlink stays in memory. But the check already made the resolver read that directory. A tsconfig.json there that does not parse fails the build with Unexpected end of file.

Version 1 does not have fault 2, because files still answers the import. It uses the same kind of check, so faults 1 and 3 apply to it. I did not run them on version 1.

As far as I can see, a version with none of these faults needs all of this:

• lstat and a compare with the real path, before it asks the resolver
• the resolver, with a retry after a cache bust
• the shared steps of bundler: resolve files imports through the shared steps (HTML import manifest, url assets) #38605 for the module

#43190 has a check of this kind for a path that a plugin names (adopt_resolver_result).

The two other rules need no check on disk:

• The resolver sees files (this question). Every key takes the settings of its path. Bun.build({ check: true }) already treats a key with no file "like one on disk" (test/cli/check/check.test.ts:24674).
• A key always takes the Bun.build options, also when the resolver finds it.

The version 2 branch has 21 tests for a key over a file on disk, in test/bundler/bundler_files.test.ts. All 21 fail on main and on 1.4.3. 18 of them only compare the build with the key to the build without it, and an onLoad gate forces the creation order. Those 18 hold for each rule that gives such a key the settings of its path. The other 3 pin the edges of the rule above.

So the fix for the split waits for the answer to question 5.

Repro scripts for the three faults

Fault 1. Put this beside a tsconfig.json with { "compilerOptions": { "jsx": "react-jsx", "jsxImportSource": "preact" } } and run it 12 times. It prints the JSX runtime of build 1 and of build 2.

import { writeFileSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
const entry = join(import.meta.dir, "generated-entry.tsx");
const text = `console.log(<div>entry</div>);`;
writeFileSync(entry, text);
const out = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
  const r = await Bun.build({ entrypoints: [entry], files: { [entry]: text }, external: ["preact", "react"] });
  out.push(/"([^"]+)\/jsx-dev-runtime"/.exec(await r.outputs[0].text())[1]);
}
rmSync(entry);
console.log(out.join(" / "));

• main: react / react, 12 of 12.
• version 2: react / preact 7 times, preact / preact 5 times.
• Without the key, both builds give preact / preact.

Fault 2. Main prints MEM_leaf for both builds. Version 2 prints null for the first (no marker, the import stays external) and DISK_decoy for the second.

import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, realpathSync } from "node:fs";
import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
import { join } from "node:path";
const marker = async r => (r.success ? (await r.outputs[0].text()).match(/(MEM|DISK)_\w+/g) : r.logs.map(l => l.message));

const a = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "bare-")));
writeFileSync(join(a, "entry.ts"), `import "leaf.ts";`);
writeFileSync(join(a, "leaf.ts"), `console.log("DISK_leaf");`);
process.chdir(a);
console.log(await marker(await Bun.build({
  entrypoints: ["./entry.ts"], packages: "external", throw: false,
  files: { [join(a, "leaf.ts")]: `console.log("MEM_leaf");` },
})));

const b = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "relative-")));
mkdirSync(join(b, "src"));
writeFileSync(join(b, "entry.ts"), `import "./src/mod.ts";`);
writeFileSync(join(b, "src/mod.ts"), ``);
writeFileSync(join(b, "src/leaf.ts"), `console.log("DISK_leaf");`);
writeFileSync(join(b, "leaf.ts"), `console.log("DISK_decoy");`);
process.chdir(b);
console.log(await marker(await Bun.build({
  entrypoints: ["./entry.ts"], throw: false,
  files: { "./src/mod.ts": `import "./leaf.ts";`, [join(b, "src/leaf.ts")]: `console.log("MEM_leaf");` },
})));

Fault 3. Main prints MEM_key. Version 2 prints Unexpected end of file.

import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, realpathSync, symlinkSync } from "node:fs";
import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
import { join } from "node:path";
const root = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "symlink-")));
mkdirSync(join(root, "app"));
writeFileSync(join(root, "app/tsconfig.json"), `{ "compilerOptions": `);
writeFileSync(join(root, "app/file.ts"), `console.log("DISK_file");`);
symlinkSync(join(root, "app"), join(root, "link"));
const entry = join(root, "entry.ts");
const r = await Bun.build({
  entrypoints: [entry], throw: false,
  files: { [entry]: `import "./link/file.ts";`, [join(root, "link/file.ts")]: `console.log("MEM_key");` },
});
console.log(r.success ? (await r.outputs[0].text()).match(/(MEM|DISK)_\w+/g) : r.logs.map(l => l.message));