bake: compute dev server module ids relative to app.root

[robobun]

Problem

• Bun.serve({ development: true, app: { framework, root } }) starts, but when root is any directory other than the cwd every framework route answers 500 with:

  error: Failed to load bundled module 'server.ts'. This is not a dynamic import, and therefore is a bug in Bun's bundler.
        at handleRequest (bake://server-runtime.js)
  

  (root one level below the cwd; with root one level above it the missing module is 'x/server.ts'). Reproduces on 1.4.0 and on a debug build of main.
• The two sides of the dev server name modules relative to different directories:
  • The bundler prints each module's key, and the keys of its imports, from Path.pretty (src/js_printer/lib.rs:6611), and BundleV2::path_with_pretty_initialized computes pretty relative to top_level_dir, the process cwd (src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs:5764).
  • The dev server derives the ids it asks the runtimes to load (route modules, the server entry point, the client main entry, server component patch lists, error locations) with DevServer::relative_path, which is relative to dev.root, i.e. app.root (src/runtime/bake/DevServer.rs:5951).
• DevServer::init calls FileSystem::init(Some(root)) (DevServer.rs:616), apparently to make top_level_dir equal the root, but FileSystem is a process-wide singleton that the runtime initialized with the cwd at startup and init returns early once it is loaded (src/resolver/lib.rs:274). So top_level_dir stays the cwd, and the two sides only agree when app.root happens to be the cwd, which is why HTML routes (root is always the cwd there) and every existing test work.

Fix

• Adds a root() slot to DevServerHandle, the handle the bundler already uses to talk to the dev server, implemented as a pointer to DevServer.root.
• Adds pretty_path_base_dir(dev_server): the dev server's root when a bundle belongs to a dev server, otherwise top_level_dir as before. Both places that compute pretty (BundleV2::path_with_pretty_initialized plus the pre-relativization in on_resolve, and LinkerContext::path_with_pretty_initialized) use it; the InternalBakeDev print-time fallback in generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs now goes through the LinkerContext method instead of computing its own cwd-relative path.
• Removes the no-op FileSystem::init(root) from DevServer::init and a dead cwd-relative rel in the dev server's cached-import branch of resolve_import_records (it was overwritten by path_with_pretty_initialized on the next line), so nothing in the dev server path relativizes against the cwd any more.
• Why this is correct: DevServer.root is documented as the directory module ids are relative to, and everything on the dev server side (relative_path, the framework router, the log lines) already uses it; the bundler was the one party using a different base. Both relative_path and pretty produce posix-style paths relative to the directory they are given, so once they are given the same directory the ids match on every platform the same way they match today for root == cwd. Bun.build and bun build (including --format=internal_bake_dev) have no dev server handle and keep relativizing against the cwd, so their output is unchanged.
• DevServer.root is written once in init and outlives every bundle the server runs, so reading it through the handle is sound, including from the chunk workers that can hit the print-time fallback.
• Test: test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts, "app.root that is not the cwd". It serves a framework app whose app.root is a directory below the cwd and checks a server-rendered route, the route's client bundle executing in the harness browser, and a server-side hot update. Fails on the release binary and on a debug build without the src/ changes (the 500 above), passes with them.
• Also ran with the debug build: the rest of test/bake/dev/{bundle,esm,html,css,hot,plugins,sourcemap,server-sourcemap,react-spa,ecosystem,ssg-pages-router}.test.ts, test/bake/{framework-router,dev-and-prod,serve-plugins-dev-server}.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_loader.test.ts -t internal_bake_dev, test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_html.test.ts. All pass.
• Related but separate: bake: resolve app.root against the cwd and require it to be a string #39188 normalizes the app.root value itself (relative paths, trailing separators) and explicitly leaves this mismatch out of scope; this PR only needs an absolute root and does not touch bake_body.rs. bundler: make per-module filename comments relative to root, not cwd #36604 changes the base of pretty for ordinary Bun.build / bun build output (root_dir, which dev server bundles leave empty) and touches the same call sites, so whichever lands second gets a small conflict; dev server: keep bare HTML script specifiers project-relative in combined rebuilds #31927 fixes a different cause of the same runtime error (combined HTML + script rebuilds) in a neighbouring branch and composes with this one. fileSystemRouterTypes[n].root and the framework entry points are still resolved against the cwd (Framework::resolve), unchanged here.

Background

• The bake dev server bundles an app into many small modules instead of one file. Each bundle is a JS object literal keyed by module id, and the server and browser HMR runtimes load modules by looking those ids up, so an id the dev server asks for has to be spelled exactly the way the bundler printed it.
• Path.pretty is the bundler's display form of a file path: relative, forward slashes, used for // file.js comments and metafile entries in normal builds. In dev server bundles (Format::InternalBakeDev) it doubles as the module id.
• top_level_dir is the cwd captured by the resolver's process-wide FileSystem singleton when the runtime starts.
• DevServerHandle is a link_interface! handle: the bundler crate sits below the runtime crate and cannot name DevServer, so it declares the operations it needs and src/runtime/bake/dev_server/mod.rs provides their bodies; is_file_cached and asset_hash are existing examples.

[robobun]

^{Updated 12:40 PM PT - Aug 15th, 2026}

@robobun, your commit 78559d1 is building: #98635

[robobun]

Status: reproduced with the new test in test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts ("app.root that is not the cwd"): on the release binary and on a debug build without the src/ changes the route answers 500 with Failed to load bundled module 'server.ts'; with the changes the route renders, the client bundle runs, and a server-side hot update is applied. Fix is in this PR (#39202), waiting on CI.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The bundler now derives pretty paths from DevServer.root for dev-server builds. Other builds retain the filesystem top-level directory. Dev-server dispatch exposes the root, and an end-to-end regression test covers differing application and working-directory roots.

Changes

Dev-server path base resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
DevServer root contract src/bundler/lib.rs, src/runtime/bake/DevServer.rs, src/runtime/bake/dev_server/mod.rs	DevServer.root is exposed through dispatch and documented as the project root for relative module IDs and bundler paths.
Bundler base-directory resolution src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs, src/bundler/lib.rs	Path resolution, cached-file handling, and source path formatting use the DevServer-aware base directory. Non-dev-server builds use the filesystem top-level directory.
Root-mismatch runtime validation test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts	An end-to-end test covers rendering, client loading, reloads, and updated output when app.root differs from the working directory.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#32078: Overlaps in linker, bundler, and dev-server integration.
• oven-sh/bun#38365: Shares bundler path-base handling through known project roots.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway, alii

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In `@test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts`:
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• src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs
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• src/runtime/bake/DevServer.rs
• src/runtime/bake/dev_server/mod.rs
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[robobun]

On the review finding about root: "app/routes" in the new test: fileSystemRouterTypes[n].root is resolved against the cwd by Framework::resolve (src/runtime/bake/bake_body.rs:684-688), not joined onto app.root, and the later join_abs_string_buf in DevServer::init keeps an absolute part as is (src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1733-1743). "app/routes" is therefore <cwd>/app/routes, which is where the fixture's route is (the test's dev server log bundles it as routes/index.ts). The suggested "routes" would be <cwd>/routes; I tried it and the test fails with 404 Not Found instead of reaching the route. The test stays as written; details are in the resolved thread.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds an unsafe cross-thread raw-pointer read (pretty_path_base_dir derefs *const [u8] into DevServer.root from chunk workers) and changes how dev-server module ids are computed, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Verified FileSystem::init early-returns when already loaded (src/resolver/lib.rs:274), so the removed call in DevServer::init was a no-op.
• Checked the removed rel/.text/.pretty writes in the cached-import branch — they were immediately overwritten by import_record.path = path_as_static(...), so dead.
• The new root() slot follows the existing link_interface! pattern; DevServerHandle is already Send + Sync and DevServer.root: Box<[u8]> is heap-stable once written.
• Test exercises server render, client bundle in browser, and a server-side hot update with app.root != cwd.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes a bug where Bun.serve({ app: { root } }) with root != cwd returns 500 on every framework route because the bundler computes module ids relative to FileSystem.top_level_dir (the cwd) while the dev server looks them up relative to app.root. The fix threads DevServer.root through the existing DevServerHandle link-interface as a new root() -> *const [u8] slot, adds a pretty_path_base_dir helper that returns that root when a dev server is present (else top_level_dir), and routes all three pretty-path computation sites through it. It also removes a no-op FileSystem::init(root) call and some dead assignments in resolve_import_records.

Files touched: src/bundler/{lib.rs, bundle_v2.rs, LinkerContext.rs, linker_context/generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs}, src/runtime/bake/{DevServer.rs, dev_server/mod.rs}, plus a new test in test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts.

Security risks

None identified. The change affects how pretty paths are computed for dev-server bundles; app.root is developer-supplied config, not remote input.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The mechanism is straightforward and the PR description is unusually thorough, but the change introduces a new unsafe { &*dev_server.root() } that dereferences a raw fat pointer into DevServer.root: Box<[u8]>, potentially from bundler chunk-worker threads (the generateCodeForFileInChunkJS fallback path). The safety argument — root is written once at init, heap-allocated inside a Box<DevServer>, and outlives every bundle — is documented at both the interface declaration and the deref site, and DevServerHandle already carries unsafe impl Send + Sync for the same class of reason. That said, memory safety is the most-blocked review category in this repo, and a maintainer confirming that DevServer.root is never reassigned or moved post-init is worth the look.

Other factors

• I confirmed the removed FileSystem::init(Some(root)) is a no-op: init_with_force::<false> returns early when INSTANCE_LOADED is set (src/resolver/lib.rs:274), and the runtime initializes it at VM startup.
• The removed rel computation and the two import_record.path.{text,pretty} = ... lines in the cached-import else-branch were dead: the very next statement assigns the whole import_record.path struct from path_with_pretty_initialized.
• The generateCodeForFileInChunkJS change is a strict simplification — it now calls c.path_with_pretty_initialized (which the diff also updated to use pretty_path_base_dir) instead of duplicating the cwd-relative logic inline.
• Non-dev-server builds (Bun.build, bun build, --format=internal_bake_dev without a dev server handle) fall through to the None arm and keep using top_level_dir, so their output is unchanged.
• The new test uses the bake harness idioms (devTest, dev.client, c.expectReload, c.expectMessage) and covers server render, client-bundle execution, and an HMR round-trip with app.root one level below the cwd.
• No prior reviews on this PR; only the robobun build-status comment.

[robobun]

For whoever takes the human look at the root() read, the facts behind the safety comment:

• DevServer.root has exactly one write, w!(root, ...) in DevServer::init (src/runtime/bake/DevServer.rs:521); nothing takes, replaces or reassigns it afterwards. The DevServer itself is Box-owned by the server and the bytes are a Box<[u8]>, so the slice the slot returns has a stable address for the dev server's lifetime.
• A bundle cannot outlive the dev server: the in-flight BundleV2 (and the transpilers it borrows) live inside DevServer.current_bundle, and Drop for DevServer asserts that no bundle is in flight (DevServer.rs:1110). The existing slots (is_file_cached, asset_hash, ...) and options.dev_server already rely on that.
• The only off-bundle-thread reader is the InternalBakeDev print-time fallback in generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs, which runs on the chunk workers that generate_chunks_in_parallel waits for before finalize_bundle returns, so it is a read of an immutable field during the dev server's lifetime. Every other caller (path_with_pretty_initialized during resolution, on_resolve) runs on the bundle thread.

[github-actions]

This PR may be a duplicate of:

1. bundler: make per-module filename comments relative to root, not cwd #36604 - Also changes the base directory of the bundler's Path.pretty, introducing an identically-named pretty_path_base_dir() helper across the same four call sites in bundle_v2.rs, LinkerContext.rs, and generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs (it bases them on root_dir rather than the dev server root).
2. dev server: keep bare HTML script specifiers project-relative in combined rebuilds #31927 - Fixes the same user-facing Failed to load bundled module ... this is a bug in Bun's bundler 500 caused by a dev-server pretty-path vs. module-id key mismatch, editing the adjacent branch of resolve_import_records in bundle_v2.rs.

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[robobun]

Neither of the two is the same fix:

• bundler: make per-module filename comments relative to root, not cwd #36604 is about Bun.build / bun build output being reproducible across cwds: it bases pretty on the build's root_dir (the root option, defaulting to the entry points' directory). It does not look at the dev server, and the dev server's transpilers leave root_dir empty, so with bundler: make per-module filename comments relative to root, not cwd #36604 alone dev bundles still relativize against the cwd and this bug stays. This PR only changes bundles that have a dev server handle and leaves every other build on the cwd, so the two are independent in behavior. They do touch the same call sites (and, by coincidence, picked the same helper name), so whichever lands second gets a small textual conflict whose resolution is one helper that returns the dev server root when there is one and otherwise does whatever bundler: make per-module filename comments relative to root, not cwd #36604 decides for ordinary builds.
• dev server: keep bare HTML script specifiers project-relative in combined rebuilds #31927 is a different cause of the same runtime error with root == cwd: in a combined HTML + script rebuild the import record keeps the scanner's raw path instead of the graph source's prettified one. Its change is in the path_to_source_index_map hit branch of resolve_import_records; the lines this PR removes are in the is_file_cached branch above it, so the hunks do not overlap, and since it copies the graph source's pretty, it picks up the root-relative ids from this PR automatically. A combined rebuild with app.root != cwd needs both.