[robobun]

Related to #22528

Problem

• A tab logs Failed to load bundled module 'broken.ts'. This is not a dynamic import, and therefore is a bug in Bun's bundler. and reloads when a saved module imports a file with a build error.
• Cause: neither text of throwNotFound (hmr-module.ts:849) for a missing module names a build error.

Fix

• The loader throws Cannot load 'broken.ts' because it has a build error. when the overlay lists that file. An HTML page with an accepting module then waits for the next build.
• Correct: only the tab knows if it has old code for the file. Then it takes the update.
• Verified: 15 new tests in test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts fail on main. Also hot, html, css.
• Self-reviewed: 33 concerns raised, 32 addressed. Rejected: a reword of the old texts (server runtime too).

Background

• A failed file has no code. The tab's overlay lists its build error by file name, the module id.
• Considered a new text only: the tab stays on the build error page after the import is removed. The dev server cannot know a tab's modules.

Downsides

• bake.client.js, sent with every page, grows 554 B (169 B compressed), the binary 4,096 B.
• Until the fix, the saved module is disposed, not loaded. Runtime errors go to the browser console only.
• A framework tab still reloads at the save (fix(bake): invalidate affected framework client bundles #46705). An import removed and added again logs the sentence twice (main: once, dev server: fail a route that reaches a recorded build failure #46801).

Notes

What changes

• The text comes from the one function behind the three places where the loader misses a module (hmr-module.ts:314, :426, :572), and from dynamicImport (:158), which leaves before that function. So import, export ... from, require(), a CommonJS module that requires the file, and import() all get it. On main, require() of the file reports Failed to resolve dynamic import 'broken.ts', and import() reports the browser's own error.
• The error is a BuildErrorImport with that name. Chrome prints the class name of an error that has no name of its own, and a release build minifies the class name.
• The reaction changes in one place, the catch of a hot update (hmr-runtime-client.ts:107). It sets the flag that an uncaught error already sets (hasFatalError, client/overlay.ts:16): the next hot update with code reloads the page. A hot update with no code reloads it too when the build error that the tab waits for is no longer listed, for example after the fix of a stylesheet.
• The tab does not wait when the page removed the overlay, for example in a dispose callback. It then reports the error and reloads at once, as on main.
• Only the tab of an HTML page waits (config.main ends in .html). A tab of a framework route reports the new text and reloads at once, as on main. The dev server can answer the reload of such a route with its script from before the save: it keeps that script cached when the browser code is reached only through the router's clientEntryPoint (fix(bake): invalidate affected framework client bundles #46705). On main the code of the fix then reaches a tab that runs, and the later saves are hot updates. A tab that waited loaded the old script at the fix, and each later save of the importer logged the sentence and reloaded.
• While the tab waits, it does not send the runtime errors of the page to the dev server and does not add them to the overlay. The browser console still shows them.
• The catch reads the overlay again. A module that failed under try/catch keeps its error and throws it again after the fix. The tab then reports it and reloads at once.
• bun:afterUpdate fires for the update that waits, as it does for an update with no code (hmr-runtime-client.ts:230). It pairs with the bun:beforeUpdate that replaceModules fired. Vite's client also fires vite:afterUpdate after an update whose import failed (vite 6.2.3, client.mjs:201-203 and :912). The events table in docs/bundler/hot-reloading.mdx says so now.
• Both old texts stay for a module that the tab lacks and that has no build error listed. A test pins both. require() gets the second text for a string literal too, because hmr.require loads every id as a dynamic one (hmr-module.ts:147).

Not changed

• The server runtime. On a framework dev server, the terminal still prints the sentence when a saved server module is above a build error. The server runtime has no list of build errors. Its loader is the subject of dev server: re-evaluate every module between a saved file and its accepting module #46764.
• The two old texts. A reword changes the server runtime too.
• A page load above a build error that is only on record (dev server: fail a route that reaches a recorded build failure #46801). The tab has no list at that time. The dev server sends a build error again only when a later build parses the failed file again. A save that imports the file directly does that. A save that reaches it through a module that no save touched ends as on main.
• A page where no module accepts the update still reloads at the save, onto the build error page. Only the false line is gone.
• The reaction of a tab of a framework route. It reloads at the save, as on main, with the new text. A route with a "use client" module does not need that, but the tab cannot tell the routes apart.
• An HTML page whose file has another extension than .html (a [loader] entry in bunfig) does not wait either. It reloads at the save, as on main, with the new text.
• Add the import through a module that is already bundled, remove it, add it again. At the second add the tab has no list, because it loaded after the build error was recorded. It logs the sentence for the module that the update did not carry and reloads, and the page load logs it again (2 lines, fix(bake): invalidate affected framework client bundles #46705 and dev server: fail a route that reaches a recorded build failure #46801). Main logs it once, at the first add, and then stays on the build error page.
• The build error page does not leave when the import is removed, while GET / answers 200 (dev server: let the error page drop failures that a build fixed before its HMR socket subscribed #42075 is about that page). The wait keeps the tab off that page in the order "add the import, remove it". A second save while the tab waits, or one save that the watcher splits into two builds, still reloads the tab onto it.
• A module that the tab lacks with no build error involved, such as a module that only another page bundled (fix(bake): invalidate affected framework client bundles #46705, dev server: fail the importers of a file that was not there to read #46983).
• A build error that the dev server lists under another name than the module id. The tab falls back to the old text and the reload. bake: compute dev server module ids relative to the dev server root #42848 and bake: derive dev server module ids with the bundler's pretty path function #42964 change how the ids are made.
• require() of a stylesheet, and an import with a binding from one (.module.css included), have no module in a tab, with or without a build error (CSS Modules not working when using HTMLBundle via Bun.serve() #18258, dev server: make CSS module imports work under bun ./index.html #42058, Dev server: plugin-resolved files, accepts through imports, Windows rename-saves, JSON and CSS modules #44743).
• Code of the failed update that renders later can still remove the overlay, for example a React root that an earlier new import mounts on document.body. The tab then waits with no overlay until the next build.
• The imports of Bun's HMR crashed when tried to run code without installing some packages #22528 are tsconfig paths aliases. After the missing files exist, nothing bundles the failed file again (dev server: resolve a tsconfig paths alias to a file created after start #43396). This PR removes the false line and the reload of that report.

Other designs

• A new text with main's reload: the tab reloads at the save, and after "add the import, remove it" it stays on the build error page.
• A hold in the dev server: it sends one update to all tabs. A tab that loaded the file before it broke can take the update, and only that tab knows it. The dev server also builds the importers of a broken file, because the broken file owns its error. dev server: fail the importers of a file that was not there to read #46983 is about the other case, a file that was not there to read.

Self-review

• Not done: a reword of the two old texts. It changes the server runtime.
• Not done: tests that pass only through a defect that another open PR removes. These are the false line of a tab that loaded after the build error, and the dispose callbacks that run before the miss (dev server: re-evaluate every module between a saved file and its accepting module #46764 changes them).
• The HTML page condition can go when the dev server no longer answers a framework route with an old script (fix(bake): invalidate affected framework client bundles #46705).

Measurements (release builds that differ only in the three runtime files. valgrind, perf, strace and bloaty are not installed.)

What	main	this branch
bake.client.js, release minify	52,885 B, zstd-19 17,695 B	53,439 B (+554), zstd-19 17,864 B (+169)
bake.server.js, bake.error.js	10,908 B, 27,714 B	the same bytes (cmp)
release binary .text / .rodata (size -A)	83,484,521 / 22,684,620	83,484,521 / 22,688,716 (+4,096, one alignment step)
calls of the four new functions and of throwNotFound in 1,000 hot updates and 1,000 frames with no code, no error	0	0
page boot		+4 functions, +1 class, +2 variables, +1 call
a module that the tab lacks, no build error listed	1 old text	the same, +1 lookup call
import() of a module that is not bundled		+1 lookup call
HMR frames (20 saves, a failing request, a save above it, the fix)		4 of 4 rows the same bytes
Chrome, accepting module: false lines, reloads at the save, reloads at the fix	1, 1, 1	0, 0, 1
Chrome, no module accepts	1, 1, 1	0, 1, 1
Chrome, one save that arrives as two builds	2, 1, 1	0, 1, 1
Chrome, a 250 ms timer that needs what a dispose callback removed, 5 s: uncaught errors, error reports to the dev server	0, 0	19 to 20, 0
framework route, 4 shapes, over the save, the fix and 2 more saves: false lines, reloads	1, 1 (2 with "use client")	0, the same reloads

• Chrome is headless Chrome 153 against a Bun.serve HTML route.
• The debug build of the server runtime gains two empty folded if (false) statements.
• With the loader of dev server: re-evaluate every module between a saved file and its accepting module #46764, a waiting tab has run the dispose callbacks of every module between the saved file and the accepting module. With main's loader it has run the accepting module's.

Tests

• On a release build of main, 0 of the 15 pass: 8 with the sentence in the tab, 3 with Failed to resolve dynamic import, 1 with the test client's own import() error, 3 on the text that user code catches.
• 33 changes of one clause each in the built runtime each fail at least one new test: the name match (any error, a suffix in each direction, the base name, none), each clause of the wait (the HTML page, the list, the overlay, the file, the flag), each clause of the end of the wait, the gate on error reports, the message, the name, the id, the place of the check before the dynamic branch, the lookup forced true at each of its two places, both old texts replaced, bun:afterUpdate, the return, the instanceof, and each added line removed.
• No test runs the page where no module accepts the update: the test client replaces the document inside location.reload(). Chrome gives the row above.
• No test covers the side === "client" guard. cmp of bake.server.js does.
• Suites on a release build: bundle 69, hot 12, html 15, css 18, esm 18, react-spa 10, hmr-socket-protocol 6, dev-and-prod 12, bun-serve-html 40. The debug build gives the same, except that two bun bake hydrates tests of react-spa time out at 5 s there, with main's runtime too.
• git merge-tree is clean against dev server: re-evaluate every module between a saved file and its accepting module #46764, dev server: import() runs the module after the calling code and rejects when it fails #46770, dev server: return the promise from import() with options #46683, dev server: fail a route that reaches a recorded build failure #46801, fix(bake): preserve module identity and HMR update order #46704, bake: report a server module that JSC rejects as a build error instead of aborting the dev server #46643, dev server: keep a barrel's requests across builds, or never defer it again #46648, bake: run server modules and the server HMR runtime as strict code in the dev server #46651, dev server: a refused require() leaves a stale module with top-level await stale #46970, dev server: invalidate clientPages route scripts for a save below the browser copy of a page or layout #47017, dev server: fail a loaded route when a build error is below its client entry point #42841 and dev server: read a directory again when a file that no build bundled fails to open #46846. fix(bake): invalidate affected framework client bundles #46705 and dev server: a page keeps a barrel that a build only bundled again #46879 each change the replaceModules call one line above the new catch arm. dev server: pick the default import of a CommonJS module by the importer's module type #46649 and dev server: give the page of an HTML route one file of a package with "main" and "module" #46994 change the lines of dynamicImport above the new check. dev server: fail the importers of a file that was not there to read #46983 adds tests at the same place in bundle.test.ts.

[robobun]

Status

How to reproduce, on a release build of main:

1. Serve one HTML page with Bun.serve({ development: true, routes: { "/": index } }). Its script index.ts calls import.meta.hot.accept(). A file broken.ts holds export const broken = ;, and nothing imports it.
2. Open the page in a browser.
3. Save index.ts with the line import { broken } from "./broken";.

On main, the tab logs Failed to load bundled module 'broken.ts'. This is not a dynamic import, and therefore is a bug in Bun's bundler. and reloads onto the build error page.

On this branch, the tab shows the build error of broken.ts in the overlay and does not reload. It reloads when broken.ts is fixed.

The first new test in test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts runs these steps.

PR: #47050

[robobun]

^{Updated 6:58 AM PT - Oct 27th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit fec796a6d6db8bb18e62999b821a4cd3a4022df6 passed in Build #133634! 🎉

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Walkthrough

The client HMR runtime recognizes imports blocked by build errors. When the overlay awaits an eligible error, the runtime avoids reporting the failed update and reloads when the error clears. Regression tests cover import failures, recovery, and reload behavior.

Changes

Build-error HMR wait

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Build-error lookup and wait state src/runtime/bake/hmr-module.ts, src/runtime/bake/client/overlay.ts	The HMR module checks whether client imports have build errors and throws BuildErrorImport for matching errors. The overlay adds helpers to find build errors, record an awaited error, and check whether it has cleared.
HMR wait and reload lifecycle src/runtime/bake/hmr-runtime-client.ts, docs/bundler/hot-reloading.mdx	The runtime registers the overlay lookup and handles awaited build-error rejections without logging or reloading. It reloads when the awaited error disappears. The documentation adds waiting for a build error to the bun:afterUpdate description.
Build-error recovery regression coverage test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts	Tests cover build-error imports, waiting and recovery, and cases that report errors or reload immediately instead of waiting.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#46879: Changes the same client HMR replacement path and failure handling.
• oven-sh/bun#46983: Changes dev-server reporting and recovery for imports whose resolved files disappear.

Suggested reviewers: alii

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Low · up to fec79

Rare overlapping updates can leave a tab waiting after one error is fixed. Track all pending errors as a follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: making a development-server tab wait for a fix when a hot update imports a file with a build error.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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[claude]

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked whether waitForBuildErrorIn can hit an unassigned domShadowRoot (overlay.ts:230): buildErrors is only populated through onServerErrorPayload, which always runs updateErrorOverlay and so mountModal while the map is non-empty, so the lookup cannot return true before the root exists. I also traced awaitedFile: it is never cleared, but every path out of the wait ends in fullReload, which discards the module state, so no stale wait survives.

Extended reasoning...

The change is confined to the browser-side Bake HMR runtime (hmr-module.ts, overlay.ts, hmr-runtime-client.ts) plus one docs row and ~12 new dev-server tests; it touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface. One confirmed behavioral finding on framework-route tabs is posted inline, so a human look is already signalled; this note only records the unmounted-overlay and stale-state concerns that were examined and ruled out from the code.

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[claude]

I re-reviewed the new push and found no bugs; the .html gate in waitForBuildErrorIn plus the framework-route test address the reload-loop concern from my earlier inline comment. Since this adds a new wait state to the client HMR runtime with documented trade-offs (merge order with #46705/#46801, runtime errors muted while waiting), a maintainer's look at the design is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Whole-class coverage: all three throwNotFound callers and the dynamicImport early path now hit the same hasBuildError check; config.main is the entry's pretty path, and HTML routes are .html-only, so the gate cannot misclassify.
• Packet ordering: index_failures publishes the errors packet before HotUpdate in finalize.rs, so buildErrors is current when the catch handler and awaitedBuildErrorIsGone() read it; a hot update is published on every build with subscribers, so the CSS-only fix path cannot be missed.
• The onRuntimeError early return cannot leave a tab stuck: hasFatalError is already set when awaitedFile is, so the next update with code or the error's removal still reloads.

Extended reasoning...

The diff touches the Bake dev server's client HMR runtime (hmr-module.ts, hmr-runtime-client.ts, client/overlay.ts), one docs table row, and adds 14 devTest cases in test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts; it touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. The second commit (2dbc7aa) is a one-line gate plus a test that directly addresses the only finding from the prior review, and no new findings surfaced this run. Deferred rather than approved because the change introduces a new client-side wait state whose interplay with other open PRs and whose muting of runtime-error reports while waiting are design choices a maintainer should weigh; no CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed files and no third-party objections are visible in the timeline.

[claude]

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

[claude]

🟡 nit (optional): HTML pages whose file uses a custom html-loader extension (a bunfig [loader] entry such as ".htm" = "html") never wait; they keep the base reload onto the error page. The gate at src/runtime/bake/client/overlay.ts:231 is config.main.endsWith(".html"), but the dev server bundles every HTML route with Loader::Html whatever its extension (src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs:3593 via Flags::HTML). Fix: decide by route kind rather than file extension, e.g. have the server put an HTML-route flag into config (or expose the main module's loader), so every HTML route waits while framework routes still fall through to the reload.

Why this was flagged

A bunfig.toml [loader] table may map any extension to the html loader (src/bunfig/bunfig.rs:1109-1144), and the runtime turns any file with loader Html into an HTMLBundle (src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:3325-3341), so Bun.serve({ routes: { "/": index } }) with index imported from index.htm is an HTML route. The dev server appends such a route with Flags::HTML (src/runtime/bake/dev_server/bundle.rs:227-232) and the bundler forces Loader::Html for it (src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs:3593), so config.main is written as the relative path index.htm (src/runtime/bake/dev_server/incremental_graph.rs:1831-1840). When a hot update of that tab imports a file with a listed build error, the catch at src/runtime/bake/hmr-runtime-client.ts:118 calls waitForBuildErrorIn, which returns false at overlay.ts:231 because the main id does not end with .html; the tab calls fullReload() at hmr-runtime-client.ts:123, landing on the build error page exactly as on the base branch. No safeguard covers this: the extension is a proxy for the route kind that the server already knows.

Verification: An HTML route whose file does not end in ".html" (bunfig [loader] ".htm" = "html") served by the dev server, with a hot update that imports a file carrying a build error. src/runtime/bake/client/overlay.ts:231 gates the wait on config.main.endsWith(".html"). For such a tab, waitForBuildErrorIn returns false, so hmr-runtime-client.ts:118-123 falls through to console.error(e); fullReload();.

[robobun]

Kept as is. The check is a stopgap for one defect of the dev server: it can answer the reload of a framework route with the script from before the save (#46705). When that is gone, the condition goes too, and every tab waits. A route-kind field in config needs a Rust change and a field in every page for that stopgap.

The miss is on the safe side. An HTML page under another extension keeps the reaction of main (report, then reload onto the build error page), with the new text. The PR notes now name this case.

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Minor · Track all pending build-error files. · overlay.ts:217-239

src/runtime/bake/client/overlay.ts:217-239
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Track all pending build-error files.

Rapid hot updates can start overlapping replaceModules callbacks. A second waitForBuildErrorIn call overwrites awaitedFile. If the first file clears while the second remains, a later no-JavaScript update checks only the second file and does not reload the tab. The fatal-error guard does not prevent callbacks that started before the guard was set.

Suggested fix

-/** The file whose build error a hot update of this tab waits for. */
-let awaitedFile: string | null = null;
+/** The files whose build errors hot updates of this tab wait for. */
+const awaitedFiles = new Set<string>();

@@
-  awaitedFile = file;
+  awaitedFiles.add(file);
   hasFatalError = true;
   return true;
 }

 /** Whether the build error that a hot update waits for left the list. */
 export function awaitedBuildErrorIsGone(): boolean {
-  return awaitedFile !== null && !hasBuildErrorIn(awaitedFile);
+  for (const file of awaitedFiles) {
+    if (!hasBuildErrorIn(file)) return true;
+  }
+  return false;
 }

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-    if (awaitedFile !== null) return;
+    if (awaitedFiles.size > 0) return;

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Review comment at @src/runtime/bake/client/overlay.ts around lines 217 - 239:
Track every pending file in a collection instead of overwriting awaitedFile in
waitForBuildErrorIn. Update awaitedBuildErrorIsGone to detect when any tracked
file’s build error has cleared, and update checks that use awaitedFile to use
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[robobun]

About the note on overlapping hot updates (awaitedFile holds one file): I kept one file.

Two hot updates must overlap and fail on two different files for the second file to replace the first. The tab then waits for the second file. It still reloads at the next hot update that has code, and at the build that removes the build error of the second file. No order leaves the tab in the wait after that error is gone.