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revert(minify): pass the CSS and HTML minifiers as functions again - #23056
In rstackjs/build-tools-performance, a cold production build of react-1k got ~15% slower from 5.111.1 to 5.112.0. Compilation time is unchanged; the extra time is spent resolving the persistent cache's build dependencies.
Cause: #22309 hands cssMinify and htmlMinify to minimizer-webpack-plugin as module paths. The plugin requires them, so they become children of its module. Their require("webpack") then adds lib/index.js and every webpack file loaded so far. The build-dependency walk follows module.children, and it reaches the plugin through any config that imports it.
This PR passes those two minifiers as functions again (the JS, JSON and XML entries are unchanged). It also adds a rule to AGENTS.md and a "Build dependencies" section to docs/caching.md so the next change of this kind gets measured.
Cold build with a benchmark-shaped config (imports minimizer-webpack-plugin, experiments.css/html on, webpack installed under node_modules). Emitted assets are byte-identical:
build-dependency files
webpack's own files
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What kind of change does this PR introduce?
revert
Did you add tests for your changes?
Yes: test/unitCases/MinimizerModulePath.unittest.js asserts the CSS and HTML minifiers are passed as functions (fails on main). The JavaScript-only case now disables CSS/HTML, which are on by default.
Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
No.
If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?
n/a (contributor docs updated in AGENTS.md and docs/caching.md).
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/module-loading.yml:
- Around line 39-57: Update the “Check out the base commit” setup so the base
worktree installs its dependencies independently instead of linking to the head
checkout’s node_modules; keep the base worktree’s self-link resolving webpack
from the base checkout before “Count the modules each way of using webpack
loads” runs.
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Walkthrough
The combined minimizer now passes CSS and HTML minifier functions. A new module-loading checker measures webpack usage scenarios and reports comparisons with a base. A workflow runs the check and publishes its report. The syntax printer now reads asciiOnly.
The checker runs webpack usage scenarios in child processes. It tracks loaded webpack and dependency files, identifies external packages that load webpack internals, and returns counts and outside-load paths.
Report module loading and add the lint check tooling/check-module-loading.js, package.json, eslint.config.mjs, docs/verifying.md, AGENTS.md, docs/architecture.md
The checker formats counts, supports optional base comparisons and report output, and sets exit codes. The lint command and guidance include the check.
Run the check and publish its report .github/workflows/module-loading.yml, .github/workflows/pr-reports.yml
The workflow compares the pull request with its base and publishes the report in the step summary, a pull request comment, or an artifact. The report workflow recognizes the new report marker.
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Summary
Read the camelCase option lib/javascript/syntax-printer.js
MinifiedOutput.makeString now checks options.asciiOnly instead of options.ascii_only when deciding whether raw tabs remain unescaped.
Suggested labels:area: build-perf
Change: Bug fix
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 95621
Module-loading reports can miss changes caused by dependency upgrades. Correct the baseline measurement or account for this limitation.
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Installing webpack@5.112.2, webpack-cli@7.3.1, webpack-dev-server@6.1.0 pulls in 238 packages (258 versions, 269 copies on disk), 31.24 MB in total (dependencies only, no devDependencies).
⚠️ 19 packages are installed more than once, in several versions or copies; they come first.
Parent packages name the version range each one asks for; the path is the shortest chain from a requested package.
✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 96.66%. Comparing base (954427a) to head (0ffeda5). ⚠️ Report is 9 commits behind head on main.
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Major · Keep both CSS and HTML minimizers as module paths. · defaults.js:2686-2687
lib/config/defaults.js:2686-2687 Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Keep both CSS and HTML minimizers as module paths.
When webpack is nested and minimizer-webpack-plugin is hoisted, worker serialization evaluates these functions with the plugin’s require. That can load a different webpack than the instance that configured the build. The CSS and HTML bodies then access parser APIs that the selected webpack may not provide, which can fail production CSS or HTML minification.
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Update the CSS and HTML minimizer entries in the minify configuration to pass
resolved module paths instead of loading the minimizer functions directly. Keep
both entries consistent so worker serialization loads them through the intended
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- Line 296: Update the yarn lint:module-loading guidance for --write to say it
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Major · Keep CSS and HTML minifiers as module paths. · defaults.js:2687-2697
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Keep CSS and HTML minifiers as module paths.
A consumer can hoist minimizer-webpack-plugin and webpack 5.109.2 at the project root while a tool uses webpack 5.112.x from a nested location. The plugin’s 5.14.0 peer range accepts webpack 5.109.2.
Parallel workers are enabled by default. The function form rebuilds the minifier with the worker’s require, which resolves the root webpack 5.109.2. That version lacks webpack.css.syntax and webpack.html.syntax, so CSS or HTML minification can fail. The previous module-path form preserves resolution from the nested webpack package.
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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff finding on lib/config/defaults.js ("Keep CSS and HTML minifiers as module paths"): not applying it. Passing module paths is the regression this PR reverts — it makes minimizer-webpack-plugin load cssMinify/htmlMinify itself, which pulls webpack's files in from outside webpack and slowed cold production builds by ~15%. yarn lint:module-loading now fails on exactly that. Function dispatch is what webpack shipped through 5.111.1.
Measured on the current head (e3d8874) against main and 5.111.1, before the regression. The test project has webpack installed under node_modules, a config that imports minimizer-webpack-plugin, CSS and HTML experiments on, and a filesystem cache deleted before every run. Five cold production builds each:
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The output is byte-identical. Module paths are what made the cold build slow, so the outside-diff suggestion to restore them is declined; yarn lint:module-loading now fails if a package outside webpack loads one of its files again.
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@alexander-akait I withdraw the outside-diff finding. Restoring module paths would reintroduce the regression this PR addresses.
lib/config/defaults.js passes CSS and HTML minifiers as functions. The module-loading check rejects outside loads of webpack internals. Your cold-build measurements support retaining function dispatch.
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Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Testing
### Verifying a performance or memory change
Read [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md) before claiming or measuring a performance, memory or emitted-size change. In short: prefer counting over CPU-profile attribution over retained heap over wall timing, inside a real build, never a micro-benchmark; for size, gzip decides and a re-encoding must show a compressed win; `readWord`, `readString` and `finishToken` in `lib/javascript/syntax-parser.js` sit just under V8's inlining budget — check their bytecode size before and after touching them.
AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Gotchas
### Keep instance shapes stable
Initialize **every** instance field in the constructor (`undefined`/`null` for those first assigned later) and never `delete` one — set it to `undefined`; symbol-keyed sparse slots are the documented exception. Why (V8 shapes, inline caches, `wrong map` deopts): [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md#keep-instance-shapes-stable).
Source excerpt:
# Verifying a performance or memory change
Pitfalls that produced wrong conclusions here:
- **Changing async structure is not neutral** — adding `process.nextTick`/`setImmediate` or collapsing callbacks reorders module processing and drags order-dependent work along. Prove order unchanged before believing the delta.
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AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Testing
### Verifying a performance or memory change
Read [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md) before claiming or measuring a performance, memory or emitted-size change. In short: prefer counting over CPU-profile attribution over retained heap over wall timing, inside a real build, never a micro-benchmark; for size, gzip decides and a re-encoding must show a compressed win; `readWord`, `readString` and `finishToken` in `lib/javascript/syntax-parser.js` sit just under V8's inlining budget — check their bytecode size before and after touching them.
AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Gotchas
### Keep instance shapes stable
Initialize **every** instance field in the constructor (`undefined`/`null` for those first assigned later) and never `delete` one — set it to `undefined`; symbol-keyed sparse slots are the documented exception. Why (V8 shapes, inline caches, `wrong map` deopts): [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md#keep-instance-shapes-stable).
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# Verifying a performance or memory change
Pitfalls that produced wrong conclusions here:
- **Pick a fixture that emits** — `three-long` tree-shakes to 0 bytes in production, skipping codegen/render/minify and inflating any front-end phase's share. Corroborate on a case that emits.
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AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Testing
### Verifying a performance or memory change
Read [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md) before claiming or measuring a performance, memory or emitted-size change. In short: prefer counting over CPU-profile attribution over retained heap over wall timing, inside a real build, never a micro-benchmark; for size, gzip decides and a re-encoding must show a compressed win; `readWord`, `readString` and `finishToken` in `lib/javascript/syntax-parser.js` sit just under V8's inlining budget — check their bytecode size before and after touching them.
AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Gotchas
### Keep instance shapes stable
Initialize **every** instance field in the constructor (`undefined`/`null` for those first assigned later) and never `delete` one — set it to `undefined`; symbol-keyed sparse slots are the documented exception. Why (V8 shapes, inline caches, `wrong map` deopts): [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md#keep-instance-shapes-stable).
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# Verifying a performance or memory change
Pitfalls that produced wrong conclusions here:
- **Verify semantics every time** — module count, on-disk output hashes, and error/warning counts unchanged. Two empty outputs prove nothing.
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@alexander-akait I withdraw the outside-diff finding. Your measurements support retaining function dispatch. The suggestion to restore module paths would reintroduce the cold-build regression.
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Learning: Within repository "webpack/webpack", only for files matching one of ["lib/config/defaults.js"]: When reviewing changes to CSS and HTML minifier dispatch in lib/config/defaults.js, retain function dispatch rather than recommend module paths that make minimizer-webpack-plugin load webpack internals. Check yarn lint:module-loading for outside loads of webpack files: this loading boundary affects filesystem-cache build-dependency traversal and cold production builds.
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# Webpack Development Guide
## Gotchas
### Performance and memory
Users measure webpack by build time and peak heap. Much of `lib/` sits on per-module hot paths (sometimes per module × runtime, or per chunk × module), so constant factors compound: weigh time and memory in every change, bug fixes and refactors included. Less allocation, smaller `Map`/`Set` footprints and fewer closures retained on hot paths are wins. For any per-`Compilation` state, ask whether it can be released after seal/emit so large structures aren't retained longer than needed (see #15521). Sanity-check perf changes with `FILTER="<case-name>" yarn benchmark` before CI's benchmarks flag them.
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Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Testing
### Verifying a performance or memory change
Read [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md) before claiming or measuring a performance, memory or emitted-size change. In short: prefer counting over CPU-profile attribution over retained heap over wall timing, inside a real build, never a micro-benchmark; for size, gzip decides and a re-encoding must show a compressed win; `readWord`, `readString` and `finishToken` in `lib/javascript/syntax-parser.js` sit just under V8's inlining budget — check their bytecode size before and after touching them.
AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Gotchas
### Keep instance shapes stable
Initialize **every** instance field in the constructor (`undefined`/`null` for those first assigned later) and never `delete` one — set it to `undefined`; symbol-keyed sparse slots are the documented exception. Why (V8 shapes, inline caches, `wrong map` deopts): [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md#keep-instance-shapes-stable).
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# Verifying a performance or memory change
Pitfalls that produced wrong conclusions here:
- **Verify semantics every time** — module count, on-disk output hashes, and error/warning counts unchanged. Two empty outputs prove nothing.
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File: docs/performance.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-21T07:44:46.114Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Testing
### Verifying a performance or memory change
Read [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md) before claiming or measuring a performance, memory or emitted-size change. In short: prefer counting over CPU-profile attribution over retained heap over wall timing, inside a real build, never a micro-benchmark; for size, gzip decides and a re-encoding must show a compressed win; `readWord`, `readString` and `finishToken` in `lib/javascript/syntax-parser.js` sit just under V8's inlining budget — check their bytecode size before and after touching them.
AGENTS.md: # Webpack Development Guide
## Gotchas
### Keep instance shapes stable
Initialize **every** instance field in the constructor (`undefined`/`null` for those first assigned later) and never `delete` one — set it to `undefined`; symbol-keyed sparse slots are the documented exception. Why (V8 shapes, inline caches, `wrong map` deopts): [docs/performance.md](docs/performance.md#keep-instance-shapes-stable).
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# Verifying a performance or memory change
Pitfalls that produced wrong conclusions here:
- **Micro-benchmarks of one function lie** — V8's escape analysis deletes non-escaping allocations and the compilation cache hides repeated `new Function` cost. Measure inside a real build.
Merging this PR will degrade performance by 12.04%
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⚠️117 benchmarks are dominated by system calls
System calls cannot be simulated consistently and are left out of the measure. The reported value understates the real cost. Switch to the Walltime instrument to measure them.
⚠️2 benchmarks with a significant change ran on different hardware
Their base and head results were measured on machines with a different CPU, core count or memory, so the changes might not come from the code. Run base and head on the same runner type.
How many files a fresh Node.js process loads (require or import) to do each thing below; a change from the pull request's base is marked 🔴 when it grew and 🟢 when it shrank. Every file is startup time, so fewer is better. webpack files are this package's own (lib/, hot/); node_modules files are its dependencies'.
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Use a directory boundary when checking external requesters.
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…("webpack")`
The JavaScript, CSS, HTML, JSON and XML minifiers go to the minimizer as
functions again and reach webpack through its public API. Loaded by path,
a minifier hangs under the plugin and its `require("webpack")` brings every
module webpack loaded into the cache's build dependencies. AGENTS.md now
says code outside webpack's module graph loads it through `require("webpack")`.
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In rstackjs/build-tools-performance, a cold production build of react-1k got ~15% slower from 5.111.1 to 5.112.0. Compilation time is unchanged; the extra time is spent resolving the persistent cache's build dependencies.
Cause: #22309 hands
cssMinifyandhtmlMinifytominimizer-webpack-pluginas module paths. The pluginrequires them, so they become children of its module. Theirrequire("webpack")then addslib/index.jsand every webpack file loaded so far. The build-dependency walk followsmodule.children, and it reaches the plugin through any config that imports it.This PR passes those two minifiers as functions again (the JS, JSON and XML entries are unchanged). It also adds a rule to
AGENTS.mdand a "Build dependencies" section todocs/caching.mdso the next change of this kind gets measured.Cold build with a benchmark-shaped config (imports
minimizer-webpack-plugin,experiments.css/htmlon, webpack installed undernode_modules). Emitted assets are byte-identical:mainWhat kind of change does this PR introduce?
revert
Did you add tests for your changes?
Yes:
test/unitCases/MinimizerModulePath.unittest.jsasserts the CSS and HTML minifiers are passed as functions (fails onmain). The JavaScript-only case now disables CSS/HTML, which are on by default.Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
No.
If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?
n/a (contributor docs updated in
AGENTS.mdanddocs/caching.md).Use of AI
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asciiOnlyoption when printing minified strings.