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Problem

  • When two framework routes both match a URL, bake's dev server serves whichever one the directory scan happened to insert first. With pages/blog/[slug].tsx and pages/[section]/[slug].tsx, /blog/hello is served by [section]/[slug]; with pages/[slug]/[id].tsx and pages/[...rest].tsx, /a/b is served by [...rest]; with pages/[team]/docs/[[...path]].tsx and pages/[team]/[...path].tsx, /acme/docs is served by [team]/[...path]. Renaming a parameter can flip any of these, because the scan order is derived from a hash of the file names.
  • Cause: FrameworkRouter::match_slow (src/runtime/bake/FrameworkRouter.rs:1259 on main) returns the first entry of dynamic_routes that matches, and nothing orders that map after scan_inner fills it in directory-walk order (the field carried TODO: no code to sort this data structure, line 52).
  • Same bug as FileSystemRouter: order dynamic routes by per-segment precedence like Next.js #39291 fixes for Bun.FileSystemRouter; that PR leaves bake's separate router alone, and this one covers it.

Fix

  • scan sorts dynamic_routes once the walk is done. Patterns are compared through EncodedPattern::precedence_key, which yields one (rank, text) pair per part, compared lexicographically: a text segment ranks before a param, which ranks before a catch-all, which ranks before an optional catch-all; two text segments compare by value; a pattern that runs out of parts first comes first. Groups are left out, as matches leaves them out.
  • Why this order: it is the order Next.js's getSortedRoutes produces for the pages router (at each level: the level's own route, static children, [slug], [...rest], [[...rest]], depth first), which is the convention the nextjs-pages style implements, and it is the rule FileSystemRouter: order dynamic routes by per-segment precedence like Next.js #39291 gives Bun.FileSystemRouter, so the two routers agree.
  • Why sorting in scan is enough: scan is the only code path that inserts routes, and the dev server, bun build --app and the test binding each run it once at startup. scan_all calls it once per router type, so the final call sorts the combined map; the sort is stable, so routes that compare equal keep the router-type order. Two entries can only compare equal when they have the same effective URL, which dynamic_routes already rejects as a collision, so the resulting order does not depend on the scan at all.
  • Not affected: static_routes is still consulted first, the route tree (toJSON, layouts) is built the same way, and production builds prerender every route without calling match_slow.
  • Left to bake: don't match framework routes with missing or empty URL segments #37120: EncodedPattern::matches still lets [x] match an empty segment and [...x] match zero segments (on main, pages/[slug].tsx on its own serves / with slug: ""). bake: don't match framework routes with missing or empty URL segments #37120 fixes that in matches, which this PR does not touch. Until it lands, a URL that leaves such a route zero segments (/ with [slug].tsx or [...all].tsx next to [[...rest]].tsx, /docs with docs/[...rest].tsx next to docs/[[...opt]].tsx) is always served by the required route, where main serves it by whichever route the scan visited first; with both changes the optional catch-all serves it, which is what bake: don't match framework routes with missing or empty URL segments #37120's tests assert. Landing bake: don't match framework routes with missing or empty URL segments #37120 first or together avoids that window. Its "failed candidate's captures don't leak" test also states scan order as its premise, which whichever PR lands second has to revisit.
  • Verified with test/bake/framework-router.test.ts ("dynamic route precedence", 10 cases) and test/bake/dev/route-matching.test.ts (the dev server end to end). On the current release all 11 fail, each naming the scan-order winner; the file names in the unit cases were picked so that the scan visits the losing route first. With this build they pass.
  • test/bake/dev/import-meta-inline.test.ts, ssg-pages-router.test.ts and react-response.test.ts still pass; cargo clippy -p bun_runtime and cargo fmt --check are clean.

Background

  • A bake framework declares file system router types (for example a pages/ directory in the nextjs-pages style). FrameworkRouter scans them once at startup and records every page in one of two maps: static_routes, keyed by the full URL, for routes without parameters, and dynamic_routes, an insertion-ordered array hash map keyed by pattern, for the rest. match_slow is the only URL matcher (the dev server calls it for every request); it looks the URL up in static_routes and then tries dynamic_routes in array order, so that order is the precedence.
  • An EncodedPattern is a route pattern serialized as a list of Parts: Text (a literal segment), Param ([x], one segment), CatchAll ([...x], all remaining segments), CatchAllOptional ([[...x]], all remaining segments or none) and Group ((name), app-router directories that do not appear in the URL). PartTag is the tag stored in that serialization; its numbering puts the optional catch-all before the required one, which is why the sort uses ranks of its own.
  • The scan visits directory entries in the iteration order of a hash map keyed by entry name. That order is deterministic for a given set of names, which is why the examples above reproduce everywhere, but it has nothing to do with the shape of the routes.

FrameworkRouter::match_slow returns the first entry of dynamic_routes that
matches, and the entries were in the order the directory scan inserted them,
so which of two overlapping routes served a URL depended on file names.
scan() now sorts the map the way Next.js orders its routes: part by part,
text before a param before a catch-all before an optional catch-all, with a
route that ends first coming first.
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Status: fix pushed, waiting for CI.

Reproduced on the current release with the route binding used by test/bake/framework-router.test.ts: with blog/[slug].tsx and [section]/[slug].tsx, /blog/hello matched [section]/[slug].tsx; with [slug]/[id].tsx and [...rest].tsx, /a/b matched [...rest].tsx; a dev server with five overlapping routes served /a from [...all].ts. All of the new cases in test/bake/framework-router.test.ts and test/bake/dev/route-matching.test.ts fail on the release and pass with this branch.

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Dynamic route scanning now computes explicit precedence keys and sorts routes before matching. Tests cover precedence across static, parameter, catch-all, optional catch-all, nested, and shorter routes.

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Dynamic route precedence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Precedence key and route sorting
src/runtime/bake/FrameworkRouter.rs
EncodedPattern::precedence_key ranks route parts while excluding groups and parameter names. dynamic_routes are sorted by these keys after scanning.
Route precedence validation
test/bake/framework-router.test.ts, test/bake/dev/route-matching.test.ts
Tests verify route selection across static, parameter, catch-all, optional catch-all, nested, and shorter routes.

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On the review finding about /: the empty-segment matching it describes is pre-existing and independent of route order (pages/[slug].tsx alone serves / on main today); #37120 fixes it in matches and has the / tests, so this PR does not duplicate that change. What this PR changes for those URLs is described in the "Left to #37120" bullet of the description: they now consistently go to the required route until #37120 lands, instead of to whichever route the scan visited first. Details in the thread reply.

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Updated 2:48 AM PT - Aug 16th, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 92f2543940e788f2db96b5c32c61d1e6306e6a23 passed in Build #99391! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 39344

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-39344 executable, so you can run:

bun-39344 --bun

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LGTM — focused fix that sorts dynamic_routes by a well-defined precedence key after the scan, replacing hash-map iteration order with Next.js-compatible specificity.

What was reviewed:

  • precedence_key ranks (Text < Param < CatchAll < CatchAllOptional, groups filtered, param names ignored) match matches/effective_url_hash and Next.js getSortedRoutes; Iterator::cmp gives shorter-pattern-first.
  • ArrayHashMap::sort takes a less_than predicate and is stable; .is_lt() maps Ordering correctly.
  • All insertion paths (DevServer/production via scan_all, JS binding via scan) reach the sort; dynamic_routes is only iterated (never hash-looked-up) afterward.
  • Ruled out: sort exposing a pre-existing empty-param match that would shadow catch-all fallbacks.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes route precedence in bake's FrameworkRouter: when multiple dynamic routes match a URL, match_slow previously returned whichever one the directory scan inserted first (hash-map iteration order over file names). The fix adds EncodedPattern::precedence_key — an iterator yielding (rank, text) per part — and sorts dynamic_routes by it once at the end of scan. Tests cover 9 pairwise precedence cases, one combined 9-route case, and a dev-server end-to-end check; the PR author verified all fail on the current release with the losing route named.

Security risks

None. This is routing precedence in the bake dev server / SSG pipeline; no auth, crypto, or untrusted-input parsing is touched. No unsafe is added.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. The change is small (~25 lines of Rust) and self-contained: a pure iterator adapter plus one sort call. I verified the comparator semantics against ArrayHashMap::sort (less_than predicate, stable), confirmed Iterator::cmp on (u8, &[u8]) gives lexicographic comparison with shorter-is-less (so a pattern that runs out of parts wins), and checked that the rank assignment mirrors what matches and effective_url_hash treat as equivalent (groups skipped, param names irrelevant). The explicit ranks avoid depending on PartTag's serialization values, which put CatchAllOptional before CatchAll.

Other factors

  • All routes reach dynamic_routes only through scan (DevServer and production call scan_all, which loops scan; the JS test binding calls scan directly), so the sort covers every insertion path. scan_all re-sorts the combined map on each type; the sort is stable and equal keys imply an effective-URL collision that get_or_put already rejects, so the result is scan-order-independent.
  • After the sort, dynamic_routes is only accessed via keys()/values() iteration in match_slow and count() in production — no post-sort hash lookups, so index-table validity after permutation is not a concern here.
  • Test quality is good: test.each matrix with names chosen so the scan visits the losing route first (verified against release), a combined case exercising the first-differing-segment rule, and a devTest covering the real request path. Windows path separators are normalized in the assertion helper.
  • The PR description is unusually thorough and pre-emptively addresses the interaction with #37120 and #39291.

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Superseded by #39488, which consolidates the open Bake PRs from this period into one branch. It carries this PR's change and its test, reworked where needed (see the commit in #39488 that names this PR). Closing this one in its favor.

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