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Problem

• @layer first; @import "i1.css" layer(second); bundles to @layer second{...}@layer first;. The statement prints after the file it orders, so the layers swap (Bundler incorrectly handles CSS @layer declarations without assigned styles #20546).
• find_imported_files_in_css_order prints each imported file ahead of the importer's body.

Fix

• The parser records the @layer names ahead of the first @import. The order visitor pushes them as an entry ahead of the file's imports, and the body drops the statements only when that entry prints them.
• The late statement hid places that lose a declaration. With such an entry, is_conditional_import_redundant respects a layer(name) that only one side has, a cyclic @import declares its layer, and a file that first declares a layer under @media keeps its first copy.
• Other bundles keep main's bytes.
• Verified: 44 css/CSSAtLayer* cases in test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts (32 fail on main, 6 todo), test/regression/issue/20546.test.ts.

Background

• A layer's priority is fixed where its name first appears.
• The bundler turns @import into a list of entries, then removes duplicate and redundant ones.
• Considered esbuild's shape (an ordinary entry, statements always stripped): a file with the same layer names removes the entry, the loss fix(css): preserve leading @layer statements when bundling #28915 repaired.
• Self-reviewed: 40 concerns raised, 14 addressed. The main one asked for a stack. css: consolidate the open CSS parser fixes #47025 landed two of its steps (Notes).

Downsides

• Right on main, wrong here: one two-entry input that loses a stylesheet (main has that defect more often, bundler: compare CSS import orders before two entry points share a stylesheet #46357 removes it), and two todo inputs with a bare layer import. Merge bundler: compare CSS import orders before two entry points share a stylesheet #46357 first.
• With the pattern, a file under layer(x) and bare prints twice. Release .text: +7,936 bytes.

Notes

Repro (bun 1.4.2, and main at 7942008):

printf '@layer first;\n@import "i1.css" layer(second);\n@layer third{.t{c:d}}\n' > a.css
printf '.i1{c:d}\n' > i1.css
bun build ./a.css --minify
# @layer second{.i1{c:d}}@layer first;@layer third{.t{c:d}}

With the fix: @layer first;@layer second{.i1{c:d}}@layer third{.t{c:d}}. The input of #20546 (three statements, three layered imports) prints @layer one, two, three; first and no statement after the imported files. The input that was reported again on 2026-10-23 (@layer reset, components, utilities; ahead of two layered imports in another order) prints the statement first too.

Merge order. To print the statement early is right by itself. It also removes an accident: on main the imported files print first and declare the layers by themselves, and that hid separate defects in the passes that remove duplicate imports. The last self-review asked for one ordered stack, not for this PR alone:

1. An empty named @layer block keeps its declaration. Landed in css: consolidate the open CSS parser fixes #47025.
2. A CSS module with composes prints inside a layer wrapper (landed in css: consolidate the open CSS parser fixes #47025), and two entry points stop sharing one stylesheet through a hash that ignores import conditions (bundler: compare CSS import orders before two entry points share a stylesheet #46357, open).
3. The layer check and the layer of a cyclic import for every bundle, together with an identity for a bare layer import (handed off as separate work).
4. This PR, as the statement move only.

This head is merged with #47025. css/CSSAtLayerOrderEmptyLayerBlock is a passing test now, and the special case for a CSS module with composes is gone. Until step 3 exists, its changes are in this PR, but they are on only for a bundle that has a statement ahead of an @import (layers_matter). The review measured that without them the statement move turns six of the hand-written inputs of this PR from right to wrong. A maintainer has to set the order against #46357, and against #46040, #45675 and #40438, which edit the same function.

Right on main, wrong here.

Input	main	here	esbuild 0.21.5	Removed by
css/CSSAtLayerOrderTwoEntryPointsThatDifferInImportConditions (todo): bun build e0.js e1.js, where e1.js imports f2.css and then the f0.css that e0.js imports	e0.css and e1.css	only e0.css, exit 0	both	#46357
css/CSSAtLayerOrderAnonymousCopyBehindABareCopy (todo): a file under a bare layer, then with no layer	right	wrong	wrong	an identity for a bare layer
css/CSSAtLayerOrderImportantUnderBareLayer (todo): a file under a bare layer two times, with !important	right	wrong	wrong	the same

CssImportOrder::hash does not hash import conditions, so two different orders can get one chunk. main has this defect too, and more often than this head. I measured it on generated inputs with two entry points: e0.js imports the root stylesheet of a random graph, and e1.js imports one other file of the graph and then the root. An input is wrong when the stylesheet that an entry point gets in a build of its own is not among the files of the two-entry build. Of 11,000 inputs with a statement ahead of an @import, 290 are wrong on main and 59 here, and none goes from right to wrong. Of 2,000 with no such statement, 65 are wrong on both. The todo case is an input that goes the other way.

Checked with #46357. A local build of an earlier head (f9da5ec) plus #46357 wrote both files for the two-entry case, and 0 of 800 two-entry inputs were wrong. The merge with #47025 changed three expectations of this PR, because main now keeps an empty named @layer block as @layer a{}: css/CSSAtLayerStatementStaysInBodyNoImport, css/CSSAtLayerOrderNameDeclaredInABlockThatMinifyEmpties and css/CSSAtLayerOrderEmptyLayerBlock.

What layers_matter turns on, and its limits.

• is_conditional_import_redundant(earlier, later) says that earlier is covered when the conditions of later are a prefix of its own. It ignored a layer(name) among the conditions that only earlier has, where the names and the rules are in other layers. With the flag it returns false there, for a copy of a file and for a list of layers (css/CSSAtLayerOrderListForADuplicateImportAheadOfAStatement*, StatementOfAFileImportedBareAndUnderLayer, LayeredCopyBehindABareCopy). Three things keep the answer of main: a bare layer (each entry under one prints as a layer of its own), a duplicate external import (both copies would have to stay @import rules), and the list that stands for a masked external import in the redundant-layer pass. A CSS module with composes keeps its copy like any other file (css/CSSAtLayerOrderComposesModuleUnderLayerAndBare). To treat a bare layer like layer(name) in this check makes AnonymousCopyBehindABareCopy right and FileWithImportsUnderBareLayerAndBare wrong, and the count of right graphs with bare layer imports stays 973 of 1,000.
• An @import that closes a cycle is not loaded. css-cascade-5 says that its layer "is added to the layer order even if the import fails to load the stylesheet", and Chrome 153 does that. visit_import pushes an empty layer list for such an @import record (css/CSSAtLayerOrderCyclicLayeredImportAheadOfAStatement).
• StyleSheet.layer_names holds every layer name the parser saw. When the first mention of a layer in a file is inside @media, @supports or @-moz-document, a list of names cannot stand for a copy of that file: it would declare the layer with no condition. The parser marks such a file (has_conditional_layer_names). Of its copies that a later copy replaces, the first one per condition list stays, and its entry covers no list (css/CSSAtLayerOrderNameDeclaredOnlyUnderMedia*). Chrome gives the color of the sources in light and in dark mode.

The same three defects are on main for a bundle with no statement ahead of an @import (css/CSSAtLayerOrderListForADuplicateImportUnderLayer and CyclicLayeredImport, both todo). That bundle prints as before here.

Where the statement move departs from esbuild, on purpose.

• esbuild moves the pre-import names out of the file's layer list. Here they are copied, and layer_names stays as it is on main.
• esbuild lets the pre-import entry take part in the redundant-layer pass. Here the entry is kept once per condition list and never covers another entry. A file's layer_names also holds names that the file declares only under @media or behind an anonymous block, so an equal list is no proof that the names are declared (css/CSSAtLayerOrderNameDeclared*).
• esbuild removes the statements from the body whenever the file has an @import. Here they leave only when a Layers::PreImport entry of the same file with equal conditions is earlier in the final order. When that entry would sit directly ahead of its own file, it is removed and the statements print from the body, which gives main's bytes. When an @import is behind an unknown at-rule statement, the body prints as on main.
• esbuild keeps every leading layer list ahead of the hoisted external imports. A list under import conditions prints as a block, and an @import after a block is invalid. Here only the leading run of lists that print as plain statements stays ahead (CssImportOrder::prints_as_layer_statements, the same function that css: keep the @import prologue valid when an external @import is duplicated #45675 adds).

Generated graphs. test/bundler/css-layer-order.ts builds a random @import graph, evaluates the sources with a model of cascade layers, bundles, and evaluates the bundle. bun scripts/css-layer-fuzz.ts <bun> <graphs> [first seed] [baseline] runs it. When the model was written it agreed with Chrome 153 on 2,250 source graphs and 1,200 bundles. A graph is right when .t gets the rule the sources give it and every layer has its named sublayers in the same order. Release build of this head against a release build of main (7942008), seeds from 1:

Generator options	Graphs	Right on main	Right here	Right to wrong	Wrong to right
default (statements ahead of imports, duplicate imports, layer(x))	2,000	503	1,985	0	1,482
cyclic imports	1,000	200	973	0	773
imports with a bare layer	1,000	373	973	0	600
empty layer blocks	1,000	261	994	0	733
cycles, bare layer and empty blocks	1,000	321	950	0	629

No graph goes from right to wrong. Counted by the rule that .t gets alone, 738 graphs go from wrong to right and 2 from right to wrong (seed 418 with --anonymous, alone and in the last row: the bare layer case of the table above).

Without a statement ahead of an @import (--no-leading-statements, alone and with each of the other options), 2,500 graphs give the same bytes as that build of main, minified and not.

Limits of the model: no @media or @supports, no !important, no external import, no unknown at-rule, and it watches one declaration. The last self-review added !important and a check of every pair of rules to the bundles of an earlier head and found more right-to-wrong graphs in the bare layer and empty-block rows. That was before main kept empty @layer blocks.

Wrong on main too, not changed.

• StatementBehindAnEarlierFileWithExternalImport (todo): only the leading statements of the bundle move ahead of the external imports. The same holds for a statement in a file that is reached under import conditions and orders an external import (css/CSSAtLayerStatementBeforeExternalAtImportConditional pins main's bytes there). esbuild prints the same order.
• A file imported with a bare layer that has its own imports prints as several @layer{} blocks, in esbuild too. No entry is pushed inside an anonymous layer and the statement stays in the body (css/CSSAtLayerStatementStaysInBodyAnonymousLayerImport). This and a layer declared only under @media in a bundle without the pattern are handed off as separate work.
• The dev server bundles each CSS root by itself with the same function, so the repro above prints the statement first there too. It links the CSS roots of one page in reverse order (HTMLBundle is inconsistent with the css content of Bun.build #28117), and that does not change.

Other open PRs on this function. None has a human review yet. #46357 is a prerequisite, see above. #46040 moves @import rules out of the rule list and deletes the leading-run scan that the strip here extends. Whichever merges second needs a count of the statements ahead of the first @import from the parser in place of that scan. #46232 (draft, stacked on #46040) adds a @namespace pass to the same two functions. #45675 adds Layers::Masked and the same prints_as_layer_statements. After it the position list masked_external_imports can go. #40438 rewrites the function.

Cost.

• A bundle with no statement ahead of an @import: one empty Vec and one bool per parsed stylesheet, one counter update per @media or @supports block in the parser, one is_empty() per file when the chunk is prepared, one scan of the order for a Layers::PreImport entry, and one address compare per file entry in the redundant-layer pass.
• A bundle with such a statement: one more order entry per condition list the file is reached under. A file that is imported under layer(x) and again with no layer prints twice (the browser applies it twice, and main and esbuild print a list of its layers for the first copy). A file that first declares a layer under a condition keeps one more copy per condition list. The flag is per chunk, so one such statement in any file of the chunk changes how the other files of the chunk are deduplicated.
• 10,000 files that each have their own list ahead of their own @import: 0.704 s of user CPU against 0.695 s on main (median of 10 interleaved runs, release builds, 0.61 to 0.81 s on main), and 300 MB of peak RSS against 283 MB.
• Release .text: 83,513,897 bytes on main, 83,521,833 here.

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[human-review] gate passed · iteration 4 · 5 files touched

fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 4 failed, 1 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts "test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (b99371011)

test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts:
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > bare @layer statement survives the bundle [309.83ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > @layer statement followed by an unlayered rule [291.81ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > Tailwind-style @layer statement with a @layer block [452.93ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > duplicate imports of a layered source don't corrupt the shared AST [299.90ms]
105 | 
106 |     const [stdout, , exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
107 | 
108 |     const out = await Bun.file(`${dir}/out/entry.css`).text();
109 |     // Statements that precede every @import are merged into one, in order.
110 |     expect(out).toContain("@layer theme, base, components;");
                      ^
error: expect
... (truncated)

release without fix: 4 failed, 1 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (b99371011)

test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts:
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > Tailwind-style @layer statement with a @layer block [14.18ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > @layer statement followed by an unlayered rule [9.86ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > bare @layer statement survives the bundle [10.79ms]
105 | 
106 |     const [stdout, , exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
107 | 
108 |     const out = await Bun.file(`${dir}/out/entry.css`).text();
109 |     // Statements that precede every @import are merged into one, in order.
110 |     expect(out).toContain("@layer theme, base, components;");
                      ^
error: expect(received).toContain(expected)

Expected to contain: "@layer theme, base, components;"
Received: "/* entry.css */\n@layer theme;\n@layer base;\n@layer components;\n\n.foo {\n  color: red;\n}\n"

      at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts:110:17)
(fail) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > 
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: 1 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts "test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (b99371011)

test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts:
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > bare @layer statement survives the bundle [303.28ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > @layer statement followed by an unlayered rule [309.69ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > Tailwind-style @layer statement with a @layer block [447.09ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > multiple individual @layer statements are all preserved [387.86ms]
(pass) issue #28914 - bundler preserves top-level @layer statements > duplicate imports of a layered source don't corrupt the shared AST [412.72ms]

test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts:
(pass) bundler > css/CSSEntryPoint [786.58ms]
(pass) bundler > css/CSSEntryPointEmpty [130.06ms]
(pass) bundler > css/CSSNesting [130.62ms]
(pass) bundler > css/CSSAtImportMissing [140.23ms]
(pass) bundler > css
... (truncated)

release with fix: 1 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 724ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[0/4] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_css v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/css)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_bundler v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/bundler)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_standalone_graph v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/standalone_graph)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_transpiler v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/transpiler)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_bunfig v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/bunfig)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_install v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/install)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_jsc v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/jsc)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_js_parser_jsc v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/js_parser_jsc)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_patch_jsc v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/patch_jsc)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_css_jsc v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/css_jsc)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_http_jsc v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/http_jsc)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_sourcemap_jsc v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/sourcemap_jsc)
^[[1m^[[92m   Compiling^[[0m bun_ast_jsc v0.0.0 (/works
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

.../linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs  | 23 +++---
 .../linker_context/prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs       | 46 +++++-------
 src/css/css_parser.rs                              | 53 ++++++++++++--
 test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts                   | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts                |  5 +-
 5 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 4

evidence per changed file

file                                                      reads  edits  tests
…c/bundler/linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs      4      2     36
src/bundler/linker_context/prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs          4      2     36
src/css/css_parser.rs                                         5     10     36
test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts                              5      6     35
test/regression/issue/28914.test.ts                           1      2      7

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Walkthrough

The CSS parser records layer names declared before imports and layer names first recorded inside conditional groups. The bundler uses this data to order imports and prepare stylesheet rules. Regression tests and seeded graph checks cover emitted layer ordering and import behavior.

Changes

CSS layer ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track pre-import layers src/css/css_parser.rs	The parser snapshots layer names at the first import and records whether layer names occur inside conditional groups. The parsed stylesheet stores both results.
Build chunk layer order src/bundler/Chunk.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs	The linker adds pre-import and cycle-related layer entries, updates duplicate-import checks, and optimizes layer entries. Chunk layer types identify entries that print as layer statements.
Prepare stylesheet rules src/bundler/linker_context/prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs	Chunk preparation removes leading layer statements when an earlier matching entry printed them and the import-position checks allow removal.
Test emitted layer ordering test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts, test/bundler/css-layer-order.ts, scripts/css-layer-fuzz.ts, test/regression/issue/20546.test.ts	Bundler tests cover layer output across import scenarios. The graph evaluator compares source and bundled results, and the runner checks seeds against the target and optional baseline.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review d344b

No confirmed PR-introduced issue currently blocks merging. The empty-layer case remains a known limitation, with its effect relative to the base unverified.

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^{Updated 5:11 PM PT - Oct 27th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 8cf330a802c22c7967ee2ca0e087a67eec6e6697 passed in Build #134004! 🎉

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bun-41572 --bun

[claude]

I reviewed this and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds a new unsafe aliasing site into the arena-backed CssImportOrder machinery and changes what layer_names holds, a human look at the memory-ownership story would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The new Layers::borrow + bitwise_copy site matches the existing sibling patterns at the ExternalPath push and the dedupe layer_names conversion — same arena lifetime, same Drop-suppression contract.
• Parser refactor: the direct LayerStatement push in the pre-import arm is equivalent to what the delegated NestedRuleParser path did (same len() == 0 guard; enclosing_layer/anon_layer_count are always empty at top-level state <= Layers).
• layer_names now excludes pre-import names; checked that the dedupe pass at findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs:~427 still declares all names at first position because each visit now emits its own Layers(layers_pre_import) entry ahead of the SourceIndex.
• prepareCssAstsForChunk stripping mirrors the parser's classification (@ layer before first @ import stripped, after kept); the 28914 test update is a strengthening, not a weakening.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR wires up the previously-stubbed LayersPreImport handling in the CSS bundler so that @ layer a, b; statements appearing before @ import are emitted ahead of the imported files (matching esbuild and the css-cascade-5 spec intent). It touches four areas: src/css/css_parser.rs (new layers_pre_import field on StyleSheet/BundlerAtRuleParser, new on_layer_statement_before_import trait hook, and a split of the AtRulePrelude::Layer match arm in TopLevelRuleParser::rule_without_block), src/bundler/linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs (replaces a commented-out TODO with a real CssImportOrder::Layers push), src/bundler/linker_context/prepareCssAstsForChunk.rs (refines the leading-rule stripper to drop pre-import @ layer statements while keeping post-import ones), and tests (three new itBundled cases plus an updated regression assertion).

Security risks

None. This is CSS bundler output-ordering logic — no auth, crypto, network, or filesystem-traversal surface. The unsafe blocks are memory-safety concerns, not security-boundary concerns; input is already-parsed CSS ASTs.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. The core change is small and follows the esbuild reference (the TODO comment literally quoted the esbuild Go code), but it introduces a new unsafe { bitwise_copy(...) } site and a NonNull::cast Layers::borrow into arena-aliased storage. REVIEW.md flags memory safety as the most-blocked category and requires that every bitwise_copy/aliasing site uphold the single-free invariant with an accurate SAFETY comment. I verified the new site is a byte-for-byte copy of the pattern at the ExternalPath push (~line 250) and the dedupe conversion (~line 427) — same wrapping_conditions/wrapping_import_records inputs, same arena-owned Vec<LayerName> pointee lifetime (the BundlerStyleSheet outlives the chunk pipeline just like layer_names does). The SAFETY comments are accurate.

The subtler change is that layer_names no longer includes pre-import names. I traced the one consumer that cares (the dedupe pass converting redundant SourceIndex entries to Layers(layer_names)) and confirmed it remains correct because each visit() now emits Layers(layers_pre_import) separately ahead of the SourceIndex, so all names are still declared at the first position. I also confirmed the parser's direct LayerStatement push is behaviorally equivalent to the old delegated path (same len() == 0 guard; is_in_style_rule/enclosing_layer/anon_layer_count are all trivially zero at top-level state <= Layers; the state-not-set-on-Err difference is unobservable since Start and Layers compare identically everywhere).

Other factors

Test coverage is solid: three itBundled cases in the correct file using toEqualIgnoringWhitespace on exact output (basic, Tailwind-shaped, and nested-with-conditions covering the wrapping_conditions bitwise-copy path). The 28914.test.ts update replaces three toContain checks with one that asserts the merged-and-ordered form — a strengthening. BundlerAtRuleParser is the only CustomAtRuleParser implementer, so the new required trait method has no missing impls. No CODEOWNERS entries cover these paths. The bug hunt ran to dry_streak with no findings. I'm deferring rather than approving only because the arena/bitwise_copy ownership model here is intricate enough that a second pair of eyes on the new aliasing site is prudent per the repo's memory-safety review bar.

[robobun]

Status: the fix is ready for review. This branch is merged with main at 7942008 (#47025).

Reproduced on bun 1.4.2 and on main (7942008):

printf '@layer first;\n@import "i1.css" layer(second);\n@layer third{.t{c:d}}\n' > a.css
printf '.i1{c:d}\n' > i1.css
bun build ./a.css --minify
# @layer second{.i1{c:d}}@layer first;@layer third{.t{c:d}}

With this branch the output is @layer first;@layer second{.i1{c:d}}@layer third{.t{c:d}}. The input that was reported again on 2026-10-23 prints the statement first as well.

Merge order: to print the statement early is right, but on main the late statement hid other defects in the passes that remove duplicate imports. #47025 landed the change for two of them (an empty named @layer block keeps its declaration, and a CSS module with composes prints inside a layer). Two kinds of input that are right on main and wrong here remain:

• two entry points share one stylesheet through a hash that ignores import conditions, so one output file is missing: bundler: compare CSS import orders before two entry points share a stylesheet #46357. main has this defect more often than this branch: 290 against 59 of 11,000 generated inputs with two entry points, and none goes from right to wrong. The input in the PR body is one that does.
• a copy of a file under a bare layer is dropped (two todo tests, and esbuild does the same).

Proposed order: #46357, then this PR. The PR body has the details, the test counts and the numbers from 6,000 generated import graphs, where no graph goes from right to wrong. A bundle with no @layer statement ahead of an @import prints byte for byte as on main.

CI (build 134004, 8cf330a): 179 of 181 jobs passed and no job failed. The two darwin x64 - test-bun jobs still wait for an agent. The flaky tests in the annotation are not in this diff, and each one passed when it ran again.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the new unsafe sites in src/bundler/linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs: the bitwise_copy of wrapping_conditions for the PreImport entry and the set_len(len - 1) pop of a PreImport entry from wip_order both only touch entries that go back through memcpy_and_reset without a drop, so no CssImportOrder is dropped twice. A @ layer statement placed between two @ import rules still printing late is pre-existing on main (the snapshot in src/css/css_parser.rs is taken only at the first @ import), not introduced here.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the CSS bundler's import-order visitor, the redundancy passes, the chunk printer and the CSS parser, with no security-sensitive surface. The two posted findings are cascade-order regressions the PR itself marks as todo cases; the extra items here are the unsafe copies and a between-imports layer statement, which I ruled out as double-drop or new-regression concerns.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

[claude]

Code review found no new issues

No new issues were found in this update; 2 findings from earlier reviews are still open above.

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• 🔴 src/bundler/linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs:198 — Users whose bundle has a file declaring a layer only inside @ media (or in a block minify empties) plus a file with @ l…
• Also unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

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[claude]

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

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the @ layer statement placed between two @ import rules (valid per css-cascade-5): layers_pre_import is snapshotted only at the first @ import (src/css/css_parser.rs:776-783), so such a statement still prints after both imported files. That is the same as on main, so it is not a regression from this change.

Extended reasoning...

The diff adds a pre-import layer snapshot in the CSS parser, a Layers::PreImport order entry and a layers_matter gate in the CSS import-order and chunk-preparation passes, plus a fuzz harness and ~40 bundler tests; it touches no security-sensitive surface. A confirmed finding on the duplicate-copy retention is posted inline, and the one other candidate examined (a @ layer statement between two @ imports) is pre-existing behavior the PR neither fixes nor worsens.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked @ container, which parse_conditional_block in src/css/css_parser.rs does not wrap (only @ media, @ supports, @-moz-document do): a layer first declared inside @ container leaves has_conditional_layer_names false, so a duplicate copy of that file still becomes an unconditional layer list built from layer_names — but that list is built the same way on main, so it is a pre-existing gap rather than a regression from this PR, and the has_conditional_layer_names doc comment already names the three at-rules it covers.

Extended reasoning...

The two confirmed inline findings cover the open issues; this note only records the @ container candidate that was examined and ruled out as pre-existing. The gap is in the parser hook wiring (src/css/css_parser.rs around the AtRulePrelude::Container arm) and the list-for-a-copy path in src/bundler/linker_context/findImportedFilesInCSSOrder.rs, which main shares.

[robobun]

Update, 2026-10-27. The second part has its answer in #46934 (comment): the change is not taken for now, and #46934 is closed until this input shows up in real CSS. The commit in the first part stays available for this PR.

This PR hands off one case: a layer that a file first declares inside @media or @supports, in an import order with no @layer statement ahead of an @import. Two results from work on that case.

1. A commit for this branch: the flag in one pass

129b6ca64b (branch robobun/99b5b433/css-conditional-layer-flag, one commit on 1bae41a) replaces the scan that sets has_conditional_layer_names. It is +112/-33 in src/css/css_parser.rs with 14 cases, and 4 of the cases fail on 1bae41a. It changes the output of this PR only under this PR's own condition.

• The scan also sets the flag when the file declares the layer in every case. Three shapes do that: @layer a.b {...} @media print { @layer a {...} } (the sublayer name declares a), @media all { @layer a {...} }, and a file whose own @import "./x.css" layer(a); declares a. Such a file prints a second copy that it does not need. A 92 KB file with the first shape under two style sheets gives 272,534 bytes on this PR, and 136,325 on main and with the commit.
• The scan compares each name inside a conditional block with every earlier name. With 20,000 layers that 20,000 @media blocks name again, a build takes 7,022 M instructions on this PR, 803 M on main and 816 M with the commit.
• On 20,000 generated import graphs the commit changes the bytes of 416 bundles and the cascade of none. With bare layer imports in the generator, 2 of 20,000 graphs go from right to wrong. Main is wrong on both. This PR is right on them only because it keeps a copy that the file does not need, also under a bare layer.
• The commit adds the two inputs below to layerOrderCases as todo rows.
• css: keep bundled @import rules in StyleSheet.imports, out of the printable rule list #46040 takes @import rules out of the rule list. The commit reads the file's own @import ... layer(x) rules from that list, so whichever of the two merges second has to read them from the new place.

2. The case itself needs two answers from a maintainer

/* entry.css  */ @import "./g.css"; @import "./x.css"; @import "./y.css"; @import "./x.css";
/* g.css      */ @media print { @layer a { .g { color: green } } }
/* x.css      */ @layer a { .t { color: red } }
/* y.css      */ @layer u { .t { color: blue } }

bun build ./entry.css --minify prints @media print{@layer a{.g{color:green}}}@layer u{.t{color:#00f}}@layer a{.t{color:red}}. On a screen the source files give .t blue and the bundle gives red (Chrome 153). g.css counts as a file that declares a, so the list @layer a; for the first copy of x.css is removed.

/* entry.css  */ @import "./tokens.css"; @import "./other.css"; @import "./tokens.css";
/* tokens.css */ @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { @layer theme { :root { --bg: black } } }
/* other.css  */ @layer base { .t { color: blue } } @layer theme { .t { color: red } }

This prints @layer theme;@layer base{.t{color:#00f}}@layer theme{.t{color:red}}@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){...}. In light mode the source files give .t red and the bundle gives blue. The list for the first copy of tokens.css declares theme in every case.

• Main, bun 1.4.3 and this PR print these bytes. esbuild 0.28.2 prints the same rules in the same order.
• css-cascade-5 ("Layer Ordering") says that a layer inside a conditional group rule is in the layer order only while the condition holds. WPT css/css-cascade/layer-media-query.html tests it.
• esbuild's 0.19.1 changelog says that the bundle has to behave as the unbundled CSS does. It also says that to write a file twice "would be inefficient", so esbuild writes a list of the layers for the earlier copy. That list has no condition.
• A file that is imported first and states the order (@layer base, theme;) makes the bundle right today.
• No user has reported this.

Question 1. May this pass leave esbuild's output for such a file? The choices:

1. Keep the earlier copy whole, as this PR does behind its condition. The file prints once more for each list of import conditions: a 92 KB file under two style sheets gives 272,487 bytes, and 136,284 on main.
2. Print a list that keeps the rule around each name (@media print{@layer a;}). Branch robobun/99b5b433/css-conditional-layer-names has it. It is +442/-151 in src/ and adds 36 bytes for that file. A list cannot declare an unnamed @layer {} block, so it is right on fewer generated graphs than the kept copy.
3. Follow esbuild, and document that a page states its layer order first.

Question 2. Should layers_matter be on for every import order (step 3 of the plan in this PR)? A file of this kind in the order is a second condition for it otherwise, and one such file then changes how the layer(...) duplicates of other files print.

A parked draft has choice 1 for every import order with such a file, on top of the commit above: #46934. Against this PR it repairs 2,049 of 20,000 generated graphs and turns none wrong. Against main it is wrong on six inputs that main gets right (they are todo cases there): an empty named @layer block in a kept copy (#46733), a kept copy ahead of @namespace (#46232), a copy under a bare layer import, an unnamed @layer {} block with !important, and two entry points whose import orders differ only in import conditions (#46357). So it does not ask for review before the answers.

[claude]

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

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[alii]

Superseded by #47797