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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe changes add runtime virtual-module updates and path-aware resolution across supported runners. Process workers receive initialization data through IPC. Readiness, reload ordering, manager and server propagation, and initialization-error reporting are also updated. ChangesRunner Lifecycle and Process IPC
Virtual Module Loading and Reload
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ProcessWorker->>ProcessIPC: Send request-init-data
ProcessIPC->>BaseEnvRunner: Deliver worker message
BaseEnvRunner->>ProcessIPC: Send JSON init-data
ProcessIPC->>ProcessWorker: Deliver init-data
ProcessWorker->>RunnerEntry: Import entry using received data
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change adds runtime virtual-module updates and delivers process data over IPC. The remaining issues are minor edge cases. An update made before the runner is ready can wait longer than the requested timeout. A rejected server update can make later reloads fail. There are also small issues in IPC message filtering, documentation, and error formatting. The change is mergeable with follow-up. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Virtual modules can now replace disk-backed imports and change while a runner is active. A failed update can leave the server’s saved configuration ahead of the running worker, so a later restart may activate a change that the caller saw fail. The update API is held by the host application; this review did not establish a remote path to it. Retained concerns
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In `@README.md`:
- Line 273: Update the README guidance for data.entry and data.virtual to
qualify the key-matching rule by runtime: require exact spelling on Bun and
Miniflare, and describe the supported path or file-URL forms on Node and Deno
consistently with the existing path-key guidance.
In `@src/common/base-runner.ts`:
- Around line 258-261: Update the message handler in BaseRunner to intercept
“request-init-data” only while the startup data handshake is pending, then
forward later messages with that event to host onMessage listeners through
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- Line 37: Update formatInitError to convert the selected error message to a
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In `@src/common/base-runner.ts`:
- Around line 387-392: In `_enqueueVirtualUpdate()`, pass the caller’s `timeout`
to `waitForReady()` when the runner is not ready, so the update and queued
`reloadModule()` calls respect the requested timeout.
In `@src/server.ts`:
- Around line 83-95: Update EnvServer.updateVirtualModules to apply changes to a
copy of _virtual, then assign that copy to _virtual only after
super.updateVirtualModules succeeds; when no runner is active, commit the copy
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- Process runners receive runner data over IPC instead of the `ENV_RUNNER_DATA` env var, so large virtual modules no longer fail with `spawn E2BIG`. - Path keys (absolute paths, `file:` URLs) resolve by path on every backend: relative imports between virtual modules, overriding real files imported by relative path, a real `import.meta.url`, and invalidation through relative importers (Node/Deno hooks, Bun `onResolve`/`onLoad`, miniflare fallback service). - Node/Deno re-evaluate real files that import an invalidated virtual module; entries spelled differently from their key stay virtual. - Reloading a disk entry re-imports it by URL instead of a `data:` URL, so its relative imports work. - Bun registers one plugin per registration instead of one per reload or invalidation, and supports `?query` imports of keys with an extension. - Miniflare supports named `exports` with a virtual entry. - `self` closes with a clear error when `data.virtual` is set. - `waitForReady()` rejects as soon as the runner closes, with its cause; `RunnerManager` forwards close causes. - Readable `virtual:#key` URLs in stack traces, a warning for path keys naming the same file, and init errors that name the failing module. BREAKING CHANGE: `ENV_RUNNER_DATA` is no longer set. Custom `workerEntry` process workers must request the runner data over IPC (see README).
Dev servers that generate virtual modules couldn't change the map once a runner started: new keys and removals weren't possible, a string source couldn't be replaced, and each invalidation was its own round trip. `updateVirtualModules(changes)` sets (source) or removes (`null`) keys in one round trip, on every runner and through `RunnerManager`/`EnvServer`. Calls apply in order, factories run on the host, and the host keeps its own copy of the map in sync, so `EnvServer` restarts from it. Changed and removed keys are invalidated with their importers; a removed key falls through to the real file it overrode, or not found. `invalidateModule()` is now the same update with the key's current source. BREAKING CHANGE: workers receive `update-virtual-modules` (acked by `virtual-modules-updated`) instead of `invalidate-module` (`module-invalidated`), so custom workers handling the old message must handle the new one. `BaseEnvRunner._refreshVirtualSource()` is removed.
An unregistered path key's `onLoad` filter stays installed, and returning
nothing from `onLoad` throws on Bun ("onLoad() expects an object returned")
instead of falling back to disk. Its paths now resolve with the disk
marker that removed keys use, which no `onLoad` filter matches, so Bun
loads the real file itself.
Virtual sources had to be ES module strings with a format taken from the
key's extension: `.cjs` keys had no default export, JSX and binary content
(Wasm, images) couldn't be served, and an extensionless key like
`#config` couldn't be JSON or TypeScript.
A source can now also be a `Uint8Array` or `{ source, format }` (factories
may return either). Formats are Node's load formats (`module`, `commonjs`,
`module-typescript`, `commonjs-typescript`, `json`), `jsx`/`tsx`, and the
raw `text` (string), `bytes` (`Uint8Array`) and `wasm` (a compiled
`WebAssembly.Module`, the one semantics workerd allows) formats. Sources
are validated on the host, so an unknown format or a mismatched source
fails at startup or rejects the update, naming the key.
- CommonJS: native on Node and workerd (named exports included), an ES
module wrapper on Bun and Deno, which only parse in-memory sources as
ESM. Node evicts changed keys from `require.cache`, and Deno serves
`.cjs`/`.cts` path keys under `virtual:` URLs, since its CommonJS loader
skips the load hook for them.
- Bytes cross JSON channels (process IPC, update messages) as base64 and
`workerData` natively; raw formats are generated ES modules where the
runtime can't serve them.
- JSX works on Bun; elsewhere it fails with an error suggesting to
pre-transpile.
BREAKING CHANGE: keys ending in `.cjs`, `.cts`, `.jsx`, `.tsx` or `.wasm`
now default to those formats instead of plain ESM; pass
`{ source, format: "module" }` to keep serving ES module code under such a
key. `data.virtual` values that workers receive may be
`{ source, format }` objects (bytes as base64 over JSON channels) instead
of strings.
On Windows, workerd module names are native paths, so it can't join relative specifiers onto them. Resolve rawSpecifier against the referrer's real path (recording served path keys), and treat drive-letter paths as absolute instead of bare specifiers (a missing entry was stubbed instead of failing).
Import absolute paths as file: URLs (Node rejects raw Windows paths), avoid path.sep in assertions, and install Deno's npm packages once before suites spawn Deno workers in parallel (cold installs blocked on the node_modules lock and timed out on CI).
workerd rejects `../` specifiers against a native `D:\\app\\x.mjs` module name, and a native redirect target could loop and crash workerd. Spell the virtual entry and `file:` redirect targets as `/D:/app/x.mjs`.
A failed WebSocket upgrade leaves miniflare's socket without an error listener, so disposing workerd after an entry load error raised an uncaught ECONNRESET on Windows. Load the entry with a plain request first so load errors arrive as a normal response.
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Improves virtual module (
data.virtual) support across all runners.Changes
Runtime updates:
updateVirtualModules(changes)adds, replaces or removes (null) virtual modules on a running runner, in one round trip.RunnerManagerandEnvServer.RunnerManagerreloads automatically on the nextfetch().invalidateModule()is now the same update, using the current source.Formats and binary sources: a source can be a string, a
Uint8Array,{ source, format }, or a factory returning any of these.module,commonjs,module-typescript,commonjs-typescript,json,text,bytes,wasm, andjsx/tsx(Bun only; a clear error elsewhere)..cjs,.cts,.ts,.json,.jsx,.tsx,.wasm); otherwise a string ismoduleand bytes arebytes.workerDataand as base64 over the JSON channels.IPC runner data: process runners (node/bun/deno-process) receive runner data over IPC instead of the
ENV_RUNNER_DATAenv var. Large virtual modules no longer fail withspawn E2BIG: a single env var is capped at 128 KiB on Linux.Path keys resolve by path on every backend: path keys are absolute paths and
file:URLs. This covers:import.meta.url;Node/Deno do this through
registerHooks, Bun throughonResolve/onLoad, and miniflare through its fallback service.Invalidation (Node/Deno):
Reload: a disk entry is re-imported by URL instead of a
data:URL, so its relative imports work.Bun:
?queryimports work for keys with an extension.Miniflare: named
exports(Durable Objects / WorkerEntrypoints) also work with a path-keyed virtual entry (feat(miniflare): support a module specifier forexports#60 covered#keyentries).self: closes with a clear error whendata.virtualis set.Lifecycle:
waitForReady()rejects as soon as the runner closes, with the close cause, andRunnerManagerforwards close causes.DX:
virtual:#keyURLs in stack traces;Breaking changes
ENV_RUNNER_DATAis no longer set. CustomworkerEntryprocess workers must request the runner data over IPC; the README shows the handshake.invalidate-modulemessage is replaced byupdate-virtual-modules, which affects custom workers. The publicinvalidateModule()keeps its signature..cjs,.cts,.jsx,.tsxor.wasmnow follow their extension's format instead of being served as plain ESM. Use{ source, format: "module" }for the old behaviour.Known limitations
Documented in the README and
.agents/VIRTUAL-MODULES.md:#m) only match exact imports;import.meta.urlis undefined.require()can't reach other virtual modules;require()keeps its first instance after an update.Verification
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