fix(transforms): classify TypeScript references in the server-exports strip - #3849
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The browser server-exports strip stage has two reference walkers that
disagree about TypeScript syntax. `freeReferencedIdentifiers` skips every
`TS*` node; `referencedIdentifiers` walks all of them. Post-compile input
has no TypeScript nodes, so the disagreement is invisible today.
Both walkers now share one classification of erased type nodes versus
value-emitting TypeScript nodes. A read inside a type annotation, type
query, interface, type alias, heritage clause, type parameter list, type
argument list, type-only specifier or `declare` form no longer counts as a
runtime reference, so it cannot pin a hook-only binding and its server
import into the browser artifact. An enum, a namespace body, a parameter
property, an import-equals declaration, an export assignment, an `accessor`
field and a decorator all do emit runtime code, so a read inside them still
counts and the pass cannot delete live code. A type-only import specifier
also stops counting as a binding, so `import { hashOf, type Cfg }` is
deleted rather than reduced to a side-effect import.
The Babel parse-only entry picked the JSX plugin from the file extension,
so a `.mdx` path parsed without JSX. Map Markdown paths onto a `.tsx` path
for the plugin choice only.
This is a no-op on the current pipeline ordering. It exists so the stage is
correct before `browserServerExportsStripPlugin` moves ahead of
`compilePlugin`.
Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#112
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 1 review per rolling hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe parser now selects TSX plugins for Markdown-derived paths. TypeScript reference walkers now separate erased syntax from runtime-emitting constructs and use scope-aware results for import liveness. Extensive tests cover classification and stripping behavior. ChangesParser and reference analysis
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR corrects TypeScript reference classification and MDX parsing without changing current pipeline ordering. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the fallback classification documentation could mislead future contributors and should be clarified as follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ServerHookStripping
participant moduleReferenceWalkers
participant isErasedTypeNode
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ServerHookStripping->>moduleReferenceWalkers: Analyze parsed AST
moduleReferenceWalkers->>isErasedTypeNode: Classify TypeScript nodes
isErasedTypeNode-->>moduleReferenceWalkers: Return erased or runtime-emitting
moduleReferenceWalkers-->>ServerHookStripping: Return referenced and free identifiers
ServerHookStripping->>ImportBindingLiveness: Check live imported bindings
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The scope-aware walker descended into a runtime TypeScript declaration and
reported its own name and, for an enum, its member names as free reads. A
hook containing `enum Level { Low = 1 }` therefore added `Low` to the
stripped hook's dependency closure, and an unrelated module-scope
`const Low = boot()` was deleted along with the import it needed.
Bind the name an enum, a namespace or an import-equals declaration
introduces, visit only enum member initialisers, and read only the left side
of a qualified name. The flat walker keeps over-approximating, which only
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…rasure isErasedTypeNode short-circuited on `node.declare === true`, which erased a class property's decorators too. Both tsc and esbuild emit a runtime __decorate call for `@audit declare id: string`, so the decorator expression is a real read: erasing it deleted the import the emitted call needs and threw a ReferenceError at browser module evaluation. Reachable today through the code splitter, which already runs this pass on authored TypeScript. An undecorated `declare` property still erases. The regression test asserts the NAMED binding survives, not just the specifier, because the buggy path demotes the import to a bare side-effect import and a specifier-only assertion passes either way. Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#112
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An enum member initialiser can name a preceding member without qualifying it,
as in `enum Access { Read = 1, Both = Read }`. The walker bound the enum's own
name but visited member initialisers in the outer scope, so `Read` read as
free. When the enum sits inside a stripped hook and the module also has an
unrelated `const Read = boot()`, the pass pulled that binding into the hook
closure and deleted it along with its side-effectful import.
Reproduced against a control: the identical module without the enum keeps both.
Member names are now bound in their own scope before the initialisers are
walked. A module binding an initialiser genuinely reads is still stripped.
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The block at lines 164-172 documents erasure of a node and its subtree. It sits directly above
nodeHasDecorators, so tooling attaches it tonodeHasDecorators.isErasedTypeNodegets no doc comment.♻️ Proposed reordering
-/** - * Whether the compiler erases `node` and everything under it, so no identifier - * inside it is a runtime read. - * - * Both reference walkers ask this, and they must ask the same question. A - * walker that counts a type-position read as a runtime reference keeps the - * server-only import that binding came from; a walker that skips a runtime - * TypeScript node reports live code as dead. - */ /** Whether a node carries decorators, which emit a runtime call even when the * declaration they annotate is ambient. */ function nodeHasDecorators(node: Node): boolean { const decorators = node.decorators; return Array.isArray(decorators) && decorators.length > 0; } +/** + * Whether the compiler erases `node` and everything under it, so no identifier + * inside it is a runtime read. + * + * Both reference walkers ask this, and they must ask the same question. A + * walker that counts a type-position read as a runtime reference keeps the + * server-only import that binding came from; a walker that skips a runtime + * TypeScript node reports live code as dead. + */ function isErasedTypeNode(node: Node): boolean {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/transforms/pipeline/stages/browser-server-exports-strip.ts`:
- Around line 131-134: Update the documentation near the runtime TypeScript node
allowlist and its fallback logic to match the implementation: unknown TS* node
types absent from RUNTIME_TS_NODE_TYPES are erased by default, so any new
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Unlike the fixed direct namespace case, an enum nested inside a block is block-scoped: TypeScript emits let Alias inside that block. The recursive prebind here nevertheless adds it to the enclosing function or namespace scope. For example, with export function client() { consume(Alias); if (false) { enum Alias { X } } }, a surviving read of an imported Alias, and a second import binding used only by the stripped hook, import liveness treats Alias as shadowed and reduces the named import to a side-effect import, leaving client with an unresolved binding. Only prebind runtime TypeScript declarations in their actual containing lexical scope.
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Confirmed at head 916f37d20, reproduced against the real stage. Not fixing it myself because another session has been committing to these exact lines (916f37d20 introduced the recursive prebind), so leaving the fix to whoever owns that change. Everything needed is below.
Reproduction. Alias is an imported binding the CLIENT reads; a block-scoped enum of the same name sits in a dead branch; secret from the same module is hook-only:
import { Alias, secret } from "./lib.ts";
export async function getServerData() { return { props: { s: secret } }; }
export function client() {
consume(Alias);
if (false) { enum Alias { X } }
}
declare function consume(v: unknown): void;
export default function Page() { client(); return null; }Measured on the emitted output:
named Alias import = false
side-effect-only import = true
client still reads Alias = true
So client() survives with consume(Alias) intact while import { Alias } has been reduced to import "./lib.ts". That is an unresolved binding: a ReferenceError at browser module evaluation, not merely over-retention.
Mechanism, matching your diagnosis. bindNestedVarDeclarations (around browser-server-exports-strip.ts:588) recurses through every child and calls bindHoistedRuntimeTsDeclaration(scope, child) at each level. That hoisting walker exists for var, which really is function-scoped. Enums are not: TypeScript emits let Alias inside the containing block, so a block-scoped enum must not reach the enclosing function scope. bindDirectDeclarations already binds runtime TS declarations at the correct level, and the block visitor calls it, so the containing-scope case is covered without the recursive hoist.
Care needed on the fix, since the adjacent commits are recent: TSModuleDeclaration is already skipped by the recursion guard, but namespace and import X = require() differ from enum in emit shape, so removing the hoist wholesale may regress 06fe5b95d ("hoist namespace import aliases"). The narrow change is to stop hoisting BLOCK-SCOPED runtime TS declarations specifically, rather than to drop bindHoistedRuntimeTsDeclaration from the nested walker entirely.
Worth pinning both directions. A test asserting only that the import survives would pass if the pass simply stopped reducing imports at all. The paired case is: a genuinely shadowed binding, where the enum IS in the same scope as the read, must still reduce. Both my earlier fixes on this PR needed that pairing to be meaningful.
Reachable today, not only after the reorder: src/build/bundler/code-splitter/esbuild-plugin.ts:63 already runs this pass on authored TypeScript.
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Fixed in 5cfd887ca. Confirmed your diagnosis exactly, and the fix is the narrow one you described.
Mechanism. bindNestedVarDeclarations recursed through every child calling bindHoistedRuntimeTsDeclaration. That walker exists for var, which really is function scoped. An enum nested in a block is not: TypeScript emits let Alias there. bindDirectDeclarations already binds runtime TypeScript declarations at whichever scope contains them, and it is called at function scope (:704), block scope (:773) and module scope (:918), so the hoisting pass was redundant for these and actively wrong.
Measured, before and after:
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consume(Alias) + if (false) { enum Alias { X } } |
was reduced to import "./lib.ts", now import { Alias, secret } from "./lib.ts" |
enum Alias { X } then consume(Alias) (genuinely shadowed) |
still reduced, unchanged |
| no shadow at all | kept, unchanged |
Scoped to enums and import-equals, not namespaces. TSModuleDeclaration keeps its existing hoist so this does not regress 06fe5b95d ("hoist namespace import aliases"). Flagging that as a question rather than changing it: a namespace nested in a block is block scoped for the same reason an enum is, so if 06fe5b95d was hoisting a nested namespace rather than a direct one, it has the same defect. I did not touch it because I could not tell from the commit alone which case it targeted, and regressing a recent fix to satisfy a symmetry argument seemed worse than leaving it and saying so.
Both directions pinned. A test asserting only that the import survives would also pass if the pass stopped reducing imports altogether, so the same-scope shadow case is asserted alongside it. Mutation-verified: restoring the hoist fails the new tests.
src/transforms/ and src/build/: 226 passed, 0 failed.
One thing I noticed but did not chase: in the surviving case the emitted import is import { Alias, secret }, and secret is hook-only. The named import is kept because Alias is live, but the dead specifier is not pruned from the list. Harmless (an unused binding, not a server value) and out of scope here, but worth a look if specifier-level pruning is meant to happen.
Not resolving this thread myself: I wrote the fix, so a second pair of eyes should confirm it.
An enum nested in a block is block scoped: TypeScript emits `let` there. The recursive var-hoisting walker bound it into the enclosing function scope anyway, so an outer read of an imported binding of the same name looked shadowed. Import liveness then reduced the named import to a bare side-effect import and left the surviving client function with an unresolved binding, i.e. a ReferenceError at browser module evaluation rather than mere over-retention. Only `var` hoists. bindDirectDeclarations already binds runtime TypeScript declarations at whichever scope contains them (function, block and module all call it), so no hoisting pass is needed for them. Scoped to enums and import-equals; namespaces keep their existing hoist so this does not regress the namespace alias handling in 06fe5b9. Paired regression tests: the outer read keeps its named import, and a same-scope enum still reduces it. Asserting only the first would pass if the pass stopped reducing imports altogether. Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#112
Reconciles the reachability rewrite with main's #3849 TypeScript reference classification. The branch keeps its single scope-aware walker; main's authored-TypeScript semantics are ported into it rather than reinstating the flat walker: - declare forms (const/function/class/enum/namespace) are erased and read nothing, except decorated declared members, whose decorators still emit a runtime __decorate call - export type { } clauses and inline type-only export specifiers no longer read their local binding - export = handler counts its operand as a runtime read - type-only import specifiers are no longer runtime bindings, so a mixed value/type import whose value bindings were hook-owned is deleted instead of being reduced to a bare side-effect import - moduleReferenceWalkers is exported for the walker-classification tests; both answers are the single walker's answer All #3849 tests are retained. One assertion documenting the old flat walker's conservative over-approximation now expects the precise answer, because that walker no longer exists.
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This is a no-op on the current pipeline ordering
Nothing observable changes for any module that reaches this stage today, and that is intentional. It is step 1 of the reorder plan on veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#112: build the analysis the reorder substitutes, so the reorder itself can be reviewed on its own merits.
browserServerExportsStripPluginstays where it is.stageis unchanged. No tampering analysis is deleted. That is step 2.The defect
src/transforms/pipeline/stages/browser-server-exports-strip.tshas two reference walkers that disagree about TypeScript syntax:freeReferencedIdentifiersskipped every node whose type starts withTS.referencedIdentifierswalked all of them.Post-compile input contains no TypeScript nodes, so the disagreement never shows. Pre-compile it produces real leaks:
export default function Page(p: { k: typeof KEY })counts as a runtime read ofKEY, which pinsKEYand its server-only import into the browser artifact. Same forReturnType<typeof loadUser>,interface Shape { l: Loader },satisfies typeof Xand heritage clauses.import { hashOf, type Cfg }was demoted to a bare side-effect import instead of deleted, becauseCfgcounted as a binding that the hook closure did not own.The naive fix, skipping every
TS*node in both walkers, is wrong in the other direction.TSEnumDeclaration,TSModuleDeclarationwith a body,TSParameterProperty,TSImportEqualsDeclaration,TSExportAssignment,accessorfields and decorators all emit runtime code, so skipping them deletes live declarations and imports.What this adds
One shared classification,
isErasedTypeNode, asked by both walkers.Erased, so a read inside contributes no runtime reference: type annotations, type queries, type references, interfaces, type aliases, signature members, heritage clauses in a type position, type parameter lists and type argument lists, the type operand of
asandsatisfies, type-only import and export specifiers,TSDeclareFunction,TSDeclareMethod, and any node carryingdeclare.Value emitting, so a read inside does pin the binding:
TSEnumDeclarationand its member initialisers,TSModuleDeclarationwith a body plusTSModuleBlock,TSParameterProperty,TSImportEqualsDeclarationandTSExternalModuleReference,TSExportAssignment, the value side ofas/satisfies/!/<T>x/ instantiation expressions,ClassAccessorProperty, and decorators.The runtime list is an allowlist and every other
TS*type is erased, except that aTS*type the pass does not know is treated as runtime code, since over-counting a reference only ever keeps a binding.Supporting fixes needed to make the two walkers actually agree on the value-emitting list:
freeReferencedIdentifiersnow visits decorators on classes, class members and parameters. It never did, so a decorator argument was a reference to one walker and not the other.TSParameterPropertybinds its parameter name, and a namespace body is its own lexical scope.importedBindingsno longer counts a type-only specifier.The MDX parser fix
extensions/ext-parser-babel/src/parser-only.tspicked the Babel JSX plugin from the file extension, and.mdxdid not match, so JSX was off. Harmless today because compile runs first and MDX is plain JS by the time the strip sees it. After the reorder the strip sees JSX under a.mdxpath, the parse throwsUnterminated regular expression, and an MDX page with a server hook fails the build.parseablePathmaps.mdand.mdxonto a.tsxpath for the plugin choice only..tsstill keeps<T>xa type assertion.Tests
The classification cannot be tested end to end through the pipeline yet, so the walkers are tested directly.
moduleReferenceWalkersis exported for that: it runs both walkers over one parsed module, and every fixture asserts the same expectation against both, which is the agreement the defect was about.stripServerOnlyExportson authored TypeScript source, which the code-splitter caller already does today.Red proof, run by reverting each half of the change against the new tests:
startsWith("TS")skip in both walkers: 5 walker fixtures and 3 strip tests fail, all of them wrong deletions.parseablePath: the MDX parse test fails.Review follow-up
Codex found a real regression in the first commit and it is fixed in
1b4142dc5. Descending into a runtime TypeScript declaration made the scope-aware walker report the declaration's own name, and an enum's member names, as free reads. A hook containingenum Level { Low = 1 }therefore putLowinto the stripped hook's dependency closure, and an unrelated module-scopeconst Low = boot()was deleted along with the import it needed. Reproduced end to end before fixing.The fix binds the name an enum, a namespace or an import-equals declaration introduces, visits only enum member initialisers, and reads only the left side of a qualified name. The flat walker keeps over-approximating on purpose, since over-counting there only ever keeps a binding. Two regression tests cover it.
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deno test src/transforms/ src/build/ src/config/ src/extensions/: 351 passed, 0 failed.deno fmt,deno lint,deno check,deno task lint:ciall clean on the touched files.Node types I could not classify with certainty
TSEnumBodyis listed as value emitting but Babel 7.29 does not emit it; enum members hang offTSEnumDeclaration.members. It is there for forward compatibility and is currently unreachable.const enumis treated as value emitting. TypeScript inlines it, but esbuild and Babel emit a real object unless the caller opts out, and over-counting only keeps a binding.Refs veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#112
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