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What I did

Note

This follows discussion #36467. It's ready for review as one PR. Once the direction is approved, I'll split it into the stacked PRs described under "How it would land" if you'd rather merge it in pieces.

Storybook core no longer uses Babel or recast to read or write story and config files. storybook/internal/babel is removed, along with the @babel/generator, @babel/parser, @babel/traverse, @babel/types and recast dependencies. There is no fallback path and no frozen Babel copy.

• CsfFile, CsfObject (+ discovery), ConfigFile and ConfigObject read an oxc-parser ESTree and write with span-based magic-string edits. Code an edit does not touch stays byte-identical.
• The docs enrichCsf, vitestTransform, componentTransform and save-story all use text edits. Each generated Vitest test() keeps a source mapping back to its story.
• New foundation in code/core/src/csf-tools/estree/:
  • ast.ts: parsing helpers.
  • scope.ts: a scope analyzer. The OXC JS API exposes no scope info, so this mirrors the Babel getBinding / constant / referencePaths semantics.
  • editor.ts: list and statement edits that follow the surrounding layout.
• Every former Babel consumer is ported:
  • story-shape;
  • renderer and framework docgen (React manifest, Vue, web components including the story snippet generator, Angular);
  • TanStack's server-code elimination;
  • addon-vitest config updates;
  • CLI automigrations and codemods;
  • lib/codemod and create-storybook;
  • mock extraction in both builders;
  • the sandbox scripts.
• Babel stays only where it compiles user code (@storybook/nextjs, ember) and in two docgen tests that run @babel/core directly.

Results (measured before the rebase onto the latest next)

	next	this PR
storybook index (internal UI)	1.65 s	0.84 s	2.0x
dev --smoke-test (median)	4.76 s	3.87 s	~1.2x (noisy)
full storybook build	~38.9 s	~36.0 s	~1.1x
storybook npm unpacked	17.75 MiB	15.50 MiB	−13%
storybook npm packed	5.29 MiB	4.89 MiB	−8%

The per-operation numbers below were measured on 2026-10-20 with the follow-up commits of kasper/oxc-csf-tools (649f3dd): 740 story files (1.45 MB) and 80 config files from the repo, ms per full pass, median of 45 passes per cell on an M1 Pro. next is the Babel implementation.

	Babel (next)	OXC (this PR)
Indexing	1,086 ms	128 ms	8.5x
enrichCsf + source map	1,183 ms	172 ms	6.9x
vitestTransform	1,192 ms	288 ms	4.1x
10 config edits + printConfig	138 ms	90 ms	1.5x
RSS after indexing	464 MB	379 MB	−18%

Parsing reads the tree through oxc's raw transfer on 64-bit Node 22+ (off on Windows until oxc-project/oxc#27566 lands); through JSON it is about 1.8x slower, still well above 2x Babel. The first measurement of this PR, before the follow-up commits and on 587 files, was: indexing 579 → 113 ms, enrichCsf 1,212 → 255 ms, vitestTransform 683 → 216 ms.

• Parity is 0 mismatches for all three operations.
• The scope analyzer matched Babel on all 99,828 bindings in 3,717 repo files.
• scope.test.ts pins the Babel-specific rules. Examples: type references count, export counts as a reference, and functions in loop bodies are not constant.
• The internal UI index.json (1,766 entries) is byte-identical.
• Rebased on the latest next, which also ports what next added since: the Web Components snippet generator, the shared authoredSource, license-header handling, the save-story identifier checks, the single-parse CSF plugin (Addon-docs: Skip re-parsing untransformed stories in the CSF plugin #36468), and the legacy .story annotation removal (CSF: Remove legacy .story annotations #36764).
• Locally, all 48 projects pass compile and check. The unit suite passes 14,643 tests. The 4 failures are environment-only and in files this PR doesn't touch: 3 SvelteKit dev-public-env tests need generated .svelte-kit files, and 1 format-existing-file test fails on the local Node 25.

How it would land. Commits are split by area. Review the diff commit by commit.

1. ESTree layer and scope analyzer. This only adds code, so it builds on its own.
2. The switch: csf-tools, story-shape, core helpers, then each package. The csf-tools node types change in one step, so these commits only build together.
3. Babel and recast removal, plus the MIGRATION.md entry.

Behavior and API changes (see the new MIGRATION.md entry):

• docs.source.originalSource is now the exact source text instead of Babel-regenerated code.
• Untouched code keeps its formatting in automigration output. Inserted code follows the surrounding layout.
• Error messages show message (line:column) instead of Babel code frames.
• csf-tools exposes ESTree nodes:
  • CsfFile._ast and the NodePath fields are removed.
  • CsfObject.get / set / transform take ESTree expressions; parseExpression turns text into one, textOf / placeableTextOf print one.
  • CsfEnricher receives the new CsfFile.
  • CsfFile and ConfigFile expose editor and program, and CsfFile an appendStatement, for edits no CsfObject path addresses; the underscored names stay as deprecated aliases.
  • The expressions get, inspect and transform return are frozen: pass a plain value or parseExpression(text) to set instead of a changed node.
  • Reads add no diagnostics; each mutation proves the shape it edits and reports its own refusal, and a refused mutation leaves the file unchanged (ok: false always means unchanged).
  • A parent created after several spreads that may each provide it is refused with spread-field; after one spread it is carried as ...Base.args.
  • ConfigFile.removeField is removed; remove covers it and also deletes a parent it leaves empty.
• Community packages that import storybook/internal/babel or read Babel nodes from CsfFile stop loading. There is no compatibility layer: mocking-utils no longer exports babelParser. Draft PRs that move each affected package to the public csf-tools API are open: fix(builder-rsbuild): support Storybook 11's mocking-utils signatures rstackjs/storybook-rsbuild#603, feat(builder): support Storybook 11 next to Storybook 10 7rulnik/storybook-rspack-unofficial#1, feat: support Storybook 11 csf-tools next to Storybook 9 and 10 notclive/storybook-detox-test-runner#5, feat: support Storybook 11 csf-tools next to Storybook 10 tetarchus/storybook-addon-metadata#7, fix: support the Storybook 11 csf-tools API and keep Storybook 10 storybook-devtools#34, fix: support Storybook 11's ESTree csf-tools solidjs-community/storybook#76, fix(codemod): run migrate on Storybook 11's csf-tools mswjs/msw-storybook-addon#202, fix: support the Storybook 11 csf-tools API and keep Storybook 10 igrlk/storybook-addon-test-codegen#63, feat(transformer-storybook): support Storybook 11's csf-tools next to Storybook 10 parcel-bundler/storybook#6 and fix: port parcel-transformer-storybook to Storybook 11's csf-tools adobe/react-spectrum#10811. Until the solid and rsbuild releases are out, the solid sandbox skips its Chromatic job and the rsbuild templates are left out of the sandbox lists, each with a comment in sandbox-templates.ts naming the PR and the re-enable condition.

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Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

• stories
• unit tests
• integration tests
• end-to-end tests

Manual testing

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This section is mandatory for all contributions. If you believe no manual test is necessary, please state so explicitly. Thanks!

To check it locally:

1. Compile: yarn nx run-many -t compile.
2. Run cd code && node core/dist/bin/dispatcher.js index --config-dir ./.storybook -o /tmp/index.json. Run the same command on next and compare the outputs: they should be identical.
3. Run cd code && yarn storybook:ui. Open any story's Docs tab and check that source snippets and JSDoc descriptions still render.
4. In the same UI, change a control and use "Save as new story". The new export should be appended to the story file, and the rest of the file should keep its formatting.
5. In a sandbox (yarn task sandbox --template react-vite/default-ts --start-from auto), run npx storybook add @storybook/addon-vitest. vite.config.ts / vitest.config.ts should gain the Storybook project, with the rest of the file unchanged.

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• If you are deprecating/removing a feature, make sure to update
  MIGRATION.MD

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[EastonShin]

@Sidnioulz @shilman @JReinhold @huang-julien @vanessayuenn, this is ready for a look. I can't request reviewers from a fork, so I'm pinging you here.

I've rebased it on the latest next. The rebase also ports what landed there in the meantime: the Web Components snippet generator, the shared authoredSource, license-header handling, and the save-story identifier checks. Babel and recast are still fully removed from core.

The commits are split by area and are meant to be reviewed in order. The description explains how this would land as stacked PRs.

Could someone add the labels maintenance, ci:normal and qa:needed? Danger needs them, and ci:normal runs the sandboxes. I can't set labels from a fork. Thanks!

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Walkthrough

This pull request replaces Babel and Recast parsing and editing across Storybook’s CSF tools and consumers with OXC ESTree parsing and source-text edits. It removes storybook/internal/babel, updates public CSF APIs, and migrates integrations, docgen, Vitest tooling, and codemods.

Changes

ESTree parsing and editing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parser, editor, and public APIs code/core/src/csf-tools/estree/*, code/core/src/csf-tools/index.ts, code/core/src/babel/*, code/core/package.json, code/core/build-config.ts, MIGRATION.md	Adds OXC parsing, ESTree utilities, SourceEditor, and scope analysis. Removes the internal Babel entry point and documents the changed CSF APIs.
CSF and config models code/core/src/csf-tools/ConfigFile.ts, ConfigObject.ts, CsfFile.ts, CsfObject.ts, CsfObjectDiscovery.ts, enrichCsf.ts, story-shape/*	Moves CSF and config parsing, discovery, mutation, enrichment, and printing to ESTree nodes and editor-backed source edits.
Runtime, CLI, and builder integrations code/addons/*, code/builders/*, code/core/src/cli/*, code/core/src/common/utils/*, code/core/src/core-server/utils/*, code/core/src/mocking-utils/*, scripts/tasks/sandbox-parts.*	Migrates Vitest setup, mocking, config updates, story saving, and related transforms to CSF-tools parsing and editing.
Framework docgen, renderers, and codemods code/frameworks/*, code/renderers/*, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/automigrate/*, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/codemod/*, code/lib/codemod/src/transforms/*, code/lib/create-storybook/*	Updates framework and renderer AST consumers, source generation, and codemods to use ESTree and source edits. Tests and snapshots reflect the resulting output.
Other runtime adjustment code/core/src/shared/open-service/service-transport.ts	Unreferences the sync-request silence timer when the runtime supports unref.

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Review comments at @code/core/src/csf-tools/CsfObject.ts:
- Around line 486-490: Update CsfObject.sourceFor to identify parser nodes by
their numeric spans and route them to printExpression, even when textOf returns
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- Around line 244-253: Update expressionFromSource to parse detached fragments
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keep existing renaming behavior for non-shorthand properties and
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Review comments at @code/lib/codemod/src/transforms/csf-2-to-3.ts:
- Around line 152-153: Move the objectExports.add(key) call in the
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How do you get rid of recast? And keep the indentation?
I heard it can be done with magic-string

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@kasperpeulen Yes, it's magic-string. SourceEditor (core/src/csf-tools/estree/editor.ts) keeps the original text and records span-based edits on top of it, so untouched code stays byte-identical — there's no reprinting of the AST.

Inserted code copies the indentation of the line it lands on (lineIndent/reindent), follows the file's quote style, and chooses single-line vs multi-line form based on the surrounding object. After each batch, commit() applies the edits and re-parses, so later edits keep accurate positions.

The save-story and codemod snapshot tests pass unchanged on this, which is the best evidence that the formatting survives.

(Written with Claude Code on my behalf; I reviewed it.)

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Edited after re-running every repro on both sides. The utils.test.ts item and the Chromatic explanation were wrong and are corrected. The inline comments now include file:line and a few repro fixes. Two asks changed: fileName stays optional with a parser fallback (#4), and the harness is a committed corpus with golden outputs instead of keeping Babel around. The bot review below has been updated to match.

Edited again after a QA round that ran every automigration, codemod, save-story case, docs transform and the editing API through both next and this branch (counts under "What holds up"). Items marked (new) came out of that round. They have no inline comment, so their repros are in the bullets or in the collapsed section at the end.

Thanks for this. The direction is right, and the read side is impressive.

We reviewed it differentially: the same inputs through next (Babel, merge-base 8d01e03) and through this branch (OXC), using the compiled core/dist of both.

What holds up

• Index entries are identical on the repo's ~760 story files, and CSF parsing for the index is about 4× faster (storybook index on the internal UI: 1.80 s → 1.15 s). On a 76-file adversarial corpus the only differences are edge cases:
  • error wording;
  • two improvements: <T>x assertions in .ts files now parse, and a play written as a function expression is detected as using mount;
  • JSX in a .ts file no longer parses (TypeScript rejects it too);
  • a get render() getter no longer counts as an args story.
• Codemods and save-story never changed which stories exist, or their ids, names, tags or args, after re-indexing the output: ~1,000 story files through 8 story transforms, and 5,397 save cases.
• Automigrations and storybook add/remove showed no new corruption over ~15,000 fix runs and ~21,600 ConfigFile operations, apart from the items below. This branch also fixes a next bug there: recast's reprint changed \ line continuations and template literals in untouched siblings.
• vitestTransform matches next, and save-story does too apart from one item below.
• Compile, type check and unit tests pass. The internal UI build gives a byte-identical index.json (1,751 entries) and identical manifests. Apart from the known Next.js webpack and Solid failures, seven sandboxes build and pass their tests, and 169 CI jobs pass.
• Vite csf-plugin source maps are better than on next (0 wrongly mapped tokens over 857 files; next: 147k), as long as no edit commits before formatCsf (see below).
• TanStack server-code elimination never keeps server code that next removed (113 cases).
• OXC offsets are UTF-16, so emoji, CJK and BOM files are fine.

Why changes are requested
The write side (span edits replacing recast) has regressions against next. Some of them silently corrupt user files. Repros are in the inline comments.

Both regression sections below, the MIGRATION.md gaps and the editor tests block approval.

Must fix: regressions against next

1. move() / group() corrupt members that span several lines. Sometimes silently; sometimes the edit fails and the file is left unchanged. This breaks the component-subtitle and set-config-layout automigrations.

2. The webpack/rspack csf-plugin loader drops the incoming source map. Story files in every webpack and rsbuild project map to the wrong lines.

3. Next.js webpack dev fails in CI (3 jobs). The mock-loader map has sources: [""].

4. Parsing without a file name defaults to TSX, so .ts files with generic arrows like <T>(x: T) => x fail. This hits Vite automock (silently mocks nothing), preview tags, docs enrichment, codemods, and addon-vitest (adds storybookTest twice). Please fix it in the parser rather than per call site: parse unnamed code with the TSX-then-TS fallback that parseFragment already has, route automock's parseModuleAst through parseModule, and pass the file name wherever one exists.

5. Re-indenting changes the value of multi-line template literals.

6. addon-vitest: code after the last import on the same line ends up inside the // More info comment.

7. upgrade-deprecated-types drops inline type modifiers, which breaks verbatimModuleSyntax.

8. Docs snippets:

   • React: an async render with a block body shows the parse error as the code.
   • Web components: a // comment in a handler produces a broken <script>.
   • Vue: expressions with leading whitespace or outer parentheses lose their snippet.

9. Flow: we're fine dropping Flow in 11, but it has to be an explicit breaking change. That means a MIGRATION.md entry, and a parse error that names Flow for // @flow files.

10. (new) csf-2-to-3 removes Template and X.args = … statements without their leading comments, so each comment attaches to the next story:

    • A JSDoc on Template becomes Primary's Docs description.
    • A // @ts-expect-error or // eslint-disable-next-line above A.args now applies to the next export. In this repo, Zoom.stories.tsx gets five TS2578 errors after the migration.

    next drops these comments. The removals are at csf-2-to-3.ts:128 and :199, and core removeStatement (estree/editor.ts:445) has the same gap. Please remove leading comments with the statement, or move them onto the generated property.

Also required: smaller regressions

• scope.ts gaps: parameter defaults resolve to body declarations, the switch discriminant resolves inside the switch scope, parameter decorators aren't visited, and the namespace in import X = NS.Y isn't counted. TanStack now trusts scope analysis, so it can delete a live import and cause a ReferenceError.
  • (new) Assignments don't count as uses either. In let token; export function setSession(s) { token = s.token }, let token is deleted when its only read was inside the server function, so setSession throws a ReferenceError (server-code-elimination.ts:460). Decorators on abstract members aren't visited either.
• Node spans exclude parentheses (preserveParens: false), and several edits use them as boundaries:
  • A parenthesized export default (...) becomes a syntax error in transformInlineMeta and in the component transformer.
  • (new) Appending to an array whose last element is parenthesized writes inside the parentheses, silently. addons: [(cond ? 'a' : 'c')] becomes [(cond ? 'a' : 'c', 'b')], which evaluates to ['b']. Removing that element is a syntax error. See arrayList / appendToList (estree/editor.ts:215, :316).
• (new) Inserted text isn't adapted to where it lands:
  • A sequence expression loses its parentheses when copied with get/set (b: 1, 2) or inlined into a React or Angular snippet.
  • An expression whose source ends in a // comment comments out the rest of the line. set(['a'], parseExpression('1 //x')) on export const a = 0; export const b = 2; writes export const a = 1 //x; export const b = 2; and returns ok, and b is gone.
• (new) The parser no longer reports semantic errors. Babel rejected duplicate declarations, export { Missing } and legacy octals; OXC accepts them. So export const A = {}; export const A = { args } indexes one A without args, and export { Missing } indexes a story that can't load. Setting showSemanticErrors: true in parseModule (estree/ast.ts:44) catches the duplicates and octals for about 6 ms per 760 files, with no false positives on the repo's stories.
• CRLF:
  • originalSource and descriptions keep \r\n.
  • Inserted text always uses \n, so transform output and direct toString() writers get mixed endings.
• ConfigFile.set with a node that has no span (for example a Babel node from an external caller) writes { type: 'StringLiteral', ... } into the file and reports ok: true. It should throw.
• story-to-csf-factory breaks on a parenthesized expression before satisfies / as.
• Angular: comments in an arg the snippet can't evaluate are copied into the template binding, which Angular can't parse. label: helper(/* note */ 'x') gives [label]="helper(/* note */ 'x')" (next: helper('x')). Please strip comment spans in printArgSource (angular-vite/src/docgen/story-docs-args.ts:54).
• removeStatements in source-edits.ts joins the trailing comments of removed statements onto the kept line. (new) It also leaves a removed statement's leading JSDoc behind, and setImportSpecifiers drops comments between specifiers (seen in vitest-setup-file).
• (new) Automock throws AssignmentPattern is not supported for a destructured export with a default (export const { a = 1 } = obj), so nothing in that module is mocked (mocking-utils/automock.ts:104). Plain destructured exports are now mocked, which next skipped.
• (new) Saving args on a re-exported story (export { Local as Alias }) throws a TypeError (save-story/update-args-in-csf-file.ts:26). next left the file unchanged. Please throw a SaveStoryError instead.
• (new) addon-vitest's Angular postinstall now writes a second const dirname when the config already imports dirname from node:path, and the config then fails to load. next threw on this input. The non-Angular path already does this on next. declaresVariable (updateVitestFile.ts:308) should check all top-level bindings, imports included.
• (new) Small API edge cases: setImport(['a', 'a'], 'x') writes import { a, a }, and array edits drop holes ([, 'a']).
• Source maps lose the original coordinates once an edit commits. replaceSource (estree/editor.ts:100) starts a fresh MagicString from the edited text. So an experimental_enrichCsf hook that edits through csf.objects() gets a map relative to the edited code: Primary on line 4 maps to line 5 (next: 4), and sourcesContent holds the edited text. Please compose the maps across commits, or avoid committing before formatCsf, and add a hook test.
• Errors that used Babel's buildCodeFrameError lost their code frames. They now go through storyShapeError (story-shape/normalize-story.ts:13), shared by the React and Vue docs code. Please move the private codeFrame from warnWhenUsingArgTypesRegex.ts:52 into estree/ast.ts and use it there.

Tests and maintainability

• estree/editor.ts (541 lines) has no unit tests of its own, and no move test moves a multi-line value. Please add editor tests for multi-line members, template literals, CRLF, tabs, comments and parenthesized items.

• Please commit a differential corpus with golden outputs recorded once from next:

  • Use frozen copies of the inputs, not the live repo stories, which change over time.
  • Record what callers consume as JSON: index inputs, _stories/_meta, test names and ids, scope bindings.
  • Compare transform output after formatting, since Babel reprints and OXC keeps the layout. Formatting doesn't normalize strings inside the output, so intentional differences such as originalSource need their own expectation, tested against the authored text.
  • Assert against the committed files with toEqual rather than snapshots, so -u can't re-baseline them.

  Then it can be rerun on every OXC upgrade without keeping the Babel implementation around. Comparing scope.ts against @babel/traverse as a test-only devDependency is fine.

• scope.ts treats unknown TS node types as type-only. A renamed or new OXC node then silently undercounts references, which is the dangerous direction for dead-code removal. Please fail closed.

• story-shape/utils.test.ts lost the <Story>{} type-assertion case of unwrapExpression.

• The CLI has its own copies of core editor helpers, with different behaviour:

  • source-edits.ts removeStatements vs core removeStatement
  • setImportSpecifiers vs ConfigFile._removeImport
  • addImportToTop vs prependStatement

  It also reaches further into ConfigFile private state than next did (_editorSource, _commit()). Please move these helpers into core and reuse them.

• codeOf (story-shape/resolve-members.ts:63) only works after editor.parentOf() has filled a module-level registry (estree/ast.ts:216). Hidden state like this is easy to break. Please register sources at parse time or pass the editor in.

MIGRATION.md gaps

• Flow is no longer supported.
• docs.source.originalSource is now the verbatim source text, which changes what docs.source.transform receives.
• Parse error messages now use OXC's wording and end with in <file>.
• Removed or changed exports are missing:
  • babelParse, babelParseFile, getHeaderComments
  • the story-shape renames
  • the common getAbsolutePath helpers
  • the CsfFile / ConfigFile constructors
  • the formatCsf / printCsf / printConfig options
  • setBodyDeclaration now takes a string
  • where the vitest-config helpers moved

Not caused by this PR

• tests-unit--windows: NPMProxy.test.ts fails on next too.
• Chromatic storybook-ui: all tests are ADDED because this PR's first build had no baseline, and later builds carry that forward. So nothing has been compared yet.

Suggestion for landing

• Removing storybook/internal/babel breaks these at load time:

  • storybook-solidjs-vite (our solid sandbox)
  • storybook-addon-test-codegen
  • the msw-storybook-addon migrate CLI

  All three also read Babel-shaped csf-tools internals (_ast, _storyExports, _metaNode, …). Step 2 (the switch) already removes CsfFile._ast, so they break there even with internal/babel still present; the storybook-solidjs-vite docgen worker reads csf._ast.program, for example. Keeping the removal as the final PR still makes sense, but it won't keep the solid sandbox green on its own. The coordination with those maintainers has to happen before step 2 lands.

• The open-service unref commit is unrelated; it can be its own PR.

• We'll run ci:normal on each stacked PR, including the webpack sandboxes.

Repros for the (new) items

csf-2-to-3, input:

/** Shared template */
const Template = (args) => <Button {...args} />;
export const Primary = Template.bind({});
Primary.args = { label: 'A' };

Output on this branch, excerpt (next drops the comment):

/** Shared template */

export const Primary = {
  args: { label: "A" },
};

With enrichCsf, Primary now gets the description "Shared template".

Parenthesized array element:

// main.ts
export default {
  addons: [(cond ? 'a' : 'c')],
};
// appendValueToArray(['addons'], 'b')
// next:  [(cond ? 'a' : 'c'), 'b']
// this:  [(cond ? 'a' : 'c', 'b')]  → ['b']

TanStack, a variable that is only assigned outside the server function:

let token;
export function setSession(s) {
  token = s.token;
}
export const getData = createServerFn()
  .handler(async () => token);
// next keeps `let token;`; this branch deletes it,
// so setSession() throws a ReferenceError

Semantic errors:

export default { title: 'X' };
export const A = {};
export const A = { args: { a: 1 } };
// next: "Identifier 'A' has already been declared"
// this: indexes A without args