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fix(vite): fail the build when an experimental component is used without its flag - #9294
Using <Catch> without experimental: ["catchBoundary"] fails silently today: production answers 200 with an inline 500 page and dev never answers the request at all
Cause
catchCmp throws a "requires the catchBoundary experimental feature" error while rendering By then SSR has already started the response, so the router cannot send a real error status and the developer sees a page that "works"
Each, Show, Pending and Reveal throw the same way when their flag is missing
Fix
The check now lives in the optimizer, as suggested in review It runs on the resolved AST after imports are collected, so aliased imports, namespace imports and rendered JSX are handled while strings, comments and shadowed identifiers are ignored
Vite passes the enabled experimental flags to the optimizer only for regular builds The optimizer emits an experimental-flag diagnostic that names the component and the exact config line, and the existing diagnostics callback turns it into a bundler error
lib mode and the test target are left alone so packages that re-export the components keep building The runtime checks stay in place for precompiled libraries
The same detection is implemented in the Rust optimizer and in @qwik.dev/ts-optimizer
Verification
cargo test --manifest-path packages/optimizer/core/Cargo.toml: 272 passed
make lint
pnpm --filter @qwik.dev/ts-optimizer test: 1555 passed, 2 failures that also fail on main (tests/hashing/naming.test.ts, tests/optimizer/repo-corpus-validity.test.ts)
pnpm vitest run packages/qwik-vite: 196 passed
QWIK_OPTIMIZER=ts pnpm vitest run packages/qwik-router: 844 passed
pnpm tsc.check
eslint and prettier on the changed files
production build of a minimal app without the flag fails with <Catch> requires the catchBoundary experimental feature plus Enable it in your Qwik Vite config: qwikVite({ experimental: ["catchBoundary"] })
the same app builds with the flag enabled
the same app builds with --mode lib without the flag
Hanging dev responses for SSR errors in general are handled separately in #9293
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
The optimizer now reports a diagnostic when experimental components are used without enabling their required feature. Enabling the feature suppresses the diagnostic.
Optimizer configuration now supports specifying enabled experimental features.
Documentation
Updated optimizer API documentation to describe the experimental feature setting.
Bug Fixes
Corrected a changeset note to clarify that builds fail when <Catch> is used without its required flag.
Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes: 1
.changeset/experimental-primitive-flag.md
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Walkthrough
Optimizer transforms now accept optional experimental feature names. The Rust and TypeScript optimizer paths report experimental-flag diagnostics when recognized JSX primitives are used without their required flags. Vite passes configured feature names except in library mode and for the test target.
Changes: Experimental flag diagnostics
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Summary
Option contract and Vite wiring packages/optimizer/src/types.ts, packages/optimizer/src/optimizer.ts, packages/ts-optimizer/src/optimizer/types/types.ts, packages/optimizer/core/src/lib.rs, packages/optimizer/core/src/parse.rs, packages/qwik-vite/src/plugins/plugin.ts, packages/qwik-vite/src/qwik.optimizer.api.md, packages/docs/src/routes/api/qwik-optimizer/*, .changeset/experimental-primitive-flag.md
Optimizer options now include an optional experimental feature list. The Vite plugin passes configured feature names except in library mode and for the test target. The API documentation describes the option.
The Rust optimizer checks recognized JSX primitives against enabled flags and emits a diagnostic for the first missing flag. Tests cover imported and namespace-qualified primitives, local bindings, text, and enabled flags.
TypeScript optimizer detection and tests packages/ts-optimizer/src/optimizer/diagnostics/*, packages/ts-optimizer/src/optimizer/transform/index.ts, packages/ts-optimizer/tests/optimizer/diagnostics/diagnostics.test.ts
The TypeScript optimizer detects missing flags for recognized imported primitives and adds highlighted diagnostics when experimental options are defined. Tests cover aliases, namespace-qualified names, shadowed bindings, and enabled flags.
sequenceDiagram
participant QwikVitePlugin
participant OptimizerTransform
participant detectMissingExperimentalFlagDiagnostics
participant Diagnostics
QwikVitePlugin->>OptimizerTransform: Pass enabled experimental feature names
OptimizerTransform->>detectMissingExperimentalFlagDiagnostics: Check JSX primitives when options are defined
detectMissingExperimentalFlagDiagnostics->>Diagnostics: Append diagnostic for a missing feature flag
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Possibly related PRs
QwikDev/qwik#9293: It addresses the development SSR hang symptom from the linked issue, while this PR adds transform-time diagnostics for missing experimental flags.
Suggested reviewers:varixo
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 8f577
A valid JSX alias may still bypass the missing-flag check. Confirm that case before merging; the enabled-flag test no longer masks transform failures.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 8f577
The change rejects unsupported component use earlier, without a demonstrated increase in access or privileges. Risk is low, although interrupted-build recovery has not been independently verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The newly demonstrated effect is rejection of application transforms containing recognized experimental components. Its inputs are build configuration and source-module AST/import information, not a newly added request, tenant, credential, or privileged-service interface.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
inferred — This is a developer diagnostic, not a tamper-resistant authorization boundary. The Rust checker uses the existing source-directive suppression path, and TypeScript applies existing diagnostic suppression before returning results. A source author can therefore influence enforcement; this does not establish a security-control bypass.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The standard Vite handler raises error diagnostics before the plugin stores new client results or publishes generated segments. This contains newly rejected transform output, but does not establish cleanup of previously cached output after interruption. Direct consumers with non-throwing diagnostic handlers remain responsible for rejecting errors.
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The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: Vite builds now fail when an experimental component is used without its required flag.
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Directly linked issue #9244 requires an error that names the missing catchBoundary flag at build time or in the server log, for both dev and production. The reviewed head adds a transform-time check…
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The check covers Catch, Each, Pending, Reveal, and Show. All five throw the same way when their flag is missing, as the PR description states. Extending the check to these components uses th…
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Directly linked issue #9244 requires an error that names the missing catchBoundary flag at build time or in the server log, for both dev and production. The reviewed head adds a transform-time check. In packages/optimizer/core/src/experimental.rs, report_missing_experimental_flags finds a rendered Catch from @qwik.dev/core when catchBoundary is not enabled. It emits an experimental-flag error that names <Catch> and qwikVite({ experimental: ["catchBoundary"] }). The same detection exists in packages/ts-optimizer/src/optimizer/diagnostics/diagnostic-detection.ts. In packages/qwik-vite/src/plugins/plugin.ts, the transform passes experimental to the optimizer for all modes except lib, and for all targets except test. The missing-flag case therefore fails during transform, which applies to dev and production builds. plugin.unit.ts covers the missing-flag case and the enabled-flag case for both optimizers. The issue also asks for a real 500 status when a page fails. The PR defers that general runtime behavior to #9293. For the missing-flag case, the build now fails before a page is served, so the blank 500 page is no longer produced. Unverified: the end-to-end dev error overlay and server log output were not inspected in this review; the PR reports them as verified by the author.
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The check covers Catch, Each, Pending, Reveal, and Show. All five throw the same way when their flag is missing, as the PR description states. Extending the check to these components uses the same mechanism and does not add unrelated behavior. The Rust optimizer and @qwik.dev/ts-optimizer changes implement the same check in two optimizers. The experimental option added to TransformOptions, TransformModulesOptions, TestInput, api.json, index.mdx, qwik.optimizer.api.md, and the benchmark configuration carries the enabled-flag list to the new check. The emit_span_error_with_code visibility change from pub(super) to pub(crate) lets the new module emit the diagnostic. The Rust and TypeScript tests, the plugin.unit.ts tests, and the changeset support the fix. No change was found that is unrelated to the missing-flag diagnostic.
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- Line 65: Escape regex metacharacters in localName before interpolating it into
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Escape the local alias before constructing the regex.
If source imports Catch as Catch$ and renders <Catch$>, $ becomes a regex end anchor. The detector misses the JSX tag, so a build without catchBoundary can proceed to the render failure this check aims to prevent. Escape regex metacharacters in localName and add an alias regression test. (github.com)
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[warning] 65-65: Regular expression constructed from variable input detected. This can lead to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks if the variable contains malicious patterns. Use libraries like 'recheck' to validate regex safety or use static patterns.
Context: new RegExp(<${localName}(?=[\\s/>]))
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Escape regex metacharacters in localName before interpolating it into the JSX
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Restrict experimental-primitive detection to rendered JSX.
findMissingExperimentalFlag searches the complete source text after it finds a Catch import. A <Catch> sequence in a string or comment therefore matches as if Catch were rendered. The non-lib, non-test transform then throws the missing catchBoundary error.
Use JSX-aware parsing, or the existing transform parser, to exclude strings and comments before matching. This correction is separate from dollar-suffixed alias escaping.
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Update findMissingExperimentalFlag to detect experimental primitives only in
rendered JSX, using JSX-aware parsing or the existing transform parser to
exclude matches in strings and comments. Preserve the existing import and
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- Around line 964-968: Update the enabled-flag transform assertion around
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Require the enabled-flag transform to succeed.
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Hello, thanks for the PR.
Wouldn't this fit better in the optimizer? We already parse the code there and can check what the JSX tag actually refers to. That would cover aliases and namespace imports without matching strings, comments, or shadowed names.
Vite could pass the enabled flags and use the existing optimizer diagnostics to report the error. I would keep the runtime check too, for precompiled libraries.
Both the Rust optimizer and @qwik.dev/ts-optimizer now resolve JSX tags against the collected imports, so aliases and namespace imports are covered without matching strings, comments or shadowed names Vite forwards the enabled flags through a new experimental transform option and the existing diagnostics callback reports the error as a build failure
lib mode and the test target still skip the check, and the runtime guards are unchanged
@Varixo I think checking this at build time (vite or optimizer) is overkill and it will miss pre-built libraries .qwik.mjs files anyways. Thanks @akasakariko for the PR. I'm closing in favor of #9293. Failures in dev should be enough to ship those to prod imo.
Please open an issue if you disagree so we can discuss it there 🙏
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Closes #9244
Using
<Catch>withoutexperimental: ["catchBoundary"]fails silently today: production answers 200 with an inline 500 page and dev never answers the request at allCause
catchCmpthrows a "requires the catchBoundary experimental feature" error while rendering By then SSR has already started the response, so the router cannot send a real error status and the developer sees a page that "works"Each,Show,PendingandRevealthrow the same way when their flag is missingFix
The check now lives in the optimizer, as suggested in review It runs on the resolved AST after imports are collected, so aliased imports, namespace imports and rendered JSX are handled while strings, comments and shadowed identifiers are ignored
Vite passes the enabled experimental flags to the optimizer only for regular builds The optimizer emits an
experimental-flagdiagnostic that names the component and the exact config line, and the existing diagnostics callback turns it into a bundler errorlibmode and thetesttarget are left alone so packages that re-export the components keep building The runtime checks stay in place for precompiled librariesThe same detection is implemented in the Rust optimizer and in
@qwik.dev/ts-optimizerVerification
cargo test --manifest-path packages/optimizer/core/Cargo.toml: 272 passedmake lintpnpm --filter @qwik.dev/ts-optimizer test: 1555 passed, 2 failures that also fail on main (tests/hashing/naming.test.ts,tests/optimizer/repo-corpus-validity.test.ts)pnpm vitest run packages/qwik-vite: 196 passedQWIK_OPTIMIZER=ts pnpm vitest run packages/qwik-router: 844 passedpnpm tsc.checkeslintand prettier on the changed files<Catch> requires the catchBoundary experimental featureplusEnable it in your Qwik Vite config: qwikVite({ experimental: ["catchBoundary"] })--mode libwithout the flagHanging dev responses for SSR errors in general are handled separately in #9293
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<Catch>is used without its required flag.