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- Line 30: Disable minifyWhitespace for the browser-facing build targets in the
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…no source maps V8 keeps the source of every loaded script for the life of the process, and parses all of it at load. The SDK's CommonJS bundle was 3.07 million characters, of which comments and indentation are about a third. Every package's build-cjs and build-esm now set esbuild's minifyWhitespace: comments and whitespace go, identifiers and syntax stay. The SDK's index.js drops from 3.07 MB to 2.0 MB. The tsc-built packages (frontmcp, @frontmcp/nx, @frontmcp/skills) stop emitting .js.map files, so no package ships source maps. minifyWhitespace also drops the comments bundlers read. The one that changes behavior is the webpackIgnore / @vite-ignore pair on the ESM loader's import() of a computed specifier: without it, rspack (the CLI's lambda and vercel bundler) replaces the import with a context that throws "Cannot find module". That function now lives in its own module, reached through the #import-computed subpath import and built unminified, so the comments stay. The browser builds (dist/browser) are not minified, so the @__PURE__ annotations their per-module tree-shaking relies on stay too.
… keep their pure annotations esbuild's minifyWhitespace drops /* @__PURE__ */ annotations, which bundlers use to tree-shake @frontmcp/react, @frontmcp/ui and @frontmcp/plugin-webmcp out of browser apps. Servers don't load those packages for their own startup, so minifying them saved nothing this stack measures.
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…no source maps (#922) * perf(build): publish whitespace-minified CommonJS and ESM builds and no source maps V8 keeps the source of every loaded script for the life of the process, and parses all of it at load. The SDK's CommonJS bundle was 3.07 million characters, of which comments and indentation are about a third. Every package's build-cjs and build-esm now set esbuild's minifyWhitespace: comments and whitespace go, identifiers and syntax stay. The SDK's index.js drops from 3.07 MB to 2.0 MB. The tsc-built packages (frontmcp, @frontmcp/nx, @frontmcp/skills) stop emitting .js.map files, so no package ships source maps. minifyWhitespace also drops the comments bundlers read. The one that changes behavior is the webpackIgnore / @vite-ignore pair on the ESM loader's import() of a computed specifier: without it, rspack (the CLI's lambda and vercel bundler) replaces the import with a context that throws "Cannot find module". That function now lives in its own module, reached through the #import-computed subpath import and built unminified, so the comments stay. The browser builds (dist/browser) are not minified, so the @__PURE__ annotations their per-module tree-shaking relies on stay too. * perf(build): keep the browser-facing packages unminified, so bundlers keep their pure annotations esbuild's minifyWhitespace drops /* @__PURE__ */ annotations, which bundlers use to tree-shake @frontmcp/react, @frontmcp/ui and @frontmcp/plugin-webmcp out of browser apps. Servers don't load those packages for their own startup, so minifying them saved nothing this stack measures. (cherry picked from commit 86bccf8)
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to #925, #932) (#931) * perf(build): publish ASCII-only JavaScript, which V8 keeps at one byte per character (#919) V8 keeps the source of every loaded script for the life of the process, and stores it with two bytes per character when one character is above U+00FF. esbuild escapes non-ASCII characters in strings and identifiers but copies the comments it keeps as they are, so an em dash or a box-drawing rule in a comment doubled the memory the SDK bundle's source takes (6 MB instead of 3 MB); tsc output (the CLI, @frontmcp/nx) keeps them in strings too. Each publishable package's build now ends with scripts/escape-non-ascii.mjs, which rewrites every non-ASCII character in its .js, .mjs and .cjs output as a \uXXXX escape. A file is rewritten only when esbuild compiles the escaped text to the same program as the original, so a raw template string or a character after a backslash stops the build instead. CI checks the built output with --check. (cherry picked from commit 12cfece) * perf(protocol): load the MCP client and its transports on first use under require() (#920) * perf(protocol): load the MCP client and its transports on first use under require() @frontmcp/protocol's root re-exported the MCP SDK's Client, StreamableHTTPClientTransport, SSEClientTransport and StdioClientTransport, so every CommonJS server loaded the SDK's client, its OAuth client, the SSE and streamable HTTP client transports, eventsource and cross-spawn (31 files) at startup, though a server only uses them for remote apps. The client exports now come from a #client subpath import. Under the require condition it resolves to lazy-client.js, whose getters load each MCP SDK module the first time the export is read; worker, browser and ESM importers get the same static re-exports as before (an ESM importer gets esm/client.mjs, which strip-dist now maps for an `import` target, so the client still comes from the MCP SDK's ESM build). The public exports don't change. * test(protocol): cover the package's exports, now that it has tests and so a coverage threshold lazy-client.spec.ts is @frontmcp/protocol's first test file, so CI's protocol:test --coverage now applies the package's 95% threshold, and the re-export modules nobody had tested left it at 21%. exports.spec.ts checks that the Node modules hand back the MCP SDK's classes, that the browser stand-ins throw their errors, and the 2026-07-28 version helpers. index.ts is left out of coverage, as in most of the libraries here. (cherry picked from commit 0f7c402) * perf(utils): take the ReDoS analyzer from @enclave-vm/ast/redos, which loads none of the parser (#921) @frontmcp/utils imported analyzeForReDoS and REDOS_THRESHOLDS from the @enclave-vm/ast root, which loads the whole AST validator and its parser (acorn, acorn-walk, astring), so every FrontMCP server loaded them at startup. @enclave-vm/ast 2.17.0 exports the analyzer alone as @enclave-vm/ast/redos (agentfront/enclave#104). @enclave-vm/core moves to 2.17.0 with it in the root and plugin-codecall, since core pins ast exactly; the tree keeps one @enclave-vm/ast. (cherry picked from commit 0ac0461) * perf(build): publish whitespace-minified CommonJS and ESM builds and no source maps (#922) * perf(build): publish whitespace-minified CommonJS and ESM builds and no source maps V8 keeps the source of every loaded script for the life of the process, and parses all of it at load. The SDK's CommonJS bundle was 3.07 million characters, of which comments and indentation are about a third. Every package's build-cjs and build-esm now set esbuild's minifyWhitespace: comments and whitespace go, identifiers and syntax stay. The SDK's index.js drops from 3.07 MB to 2.0 MB. The tsc-built packages (frontmcp, @frontmcp/nx, @frontmcp/skills) stop emitting .js.map files, so no package ships source maps. minifyWhitespace also drops the comments bundlers read. The one that changes behavior is the webpackIgnore / @vite-ignore pair on the ESM loader's import() of a computed specifier: without it, rspack (the CLI's lambda and vercel bundler) replaces the import with a context that throws "Cannot find module". That function now lives in its own module, reached through the #import-computed subpath import and built unminified, so the comments stay. The browser builds (dist/browser) are not minified, so the @__PURE__ annotations their per-module tree-shaking relies on stay too. * perf(build): keep the browser-facing packages unminified, so bundlers keep their pure annotations esbuild's minifyWhitespace drops /* @__PURE__ */ annotations, which bundlers use to tree-shake @frontmcp/react, @frontmcp/ui and @frontmcp/plugin-webmcp out of browser apps. Servers don't load those packages for their own startup, so minifying them saved nothing this stack measures. (cherry picked from commit 86bccf8) * perf(sdk): start a stdio server with the protocol module it already loaded (#923) runStdio() took McpServer and StdioServerTransport from `await import('@frontmcp/protocol')`. In a CommonJS process that import resolves the package's `import` condition, so a stdio server loaded a second, ESM copy of @frontmcp/protocol and, through it, of the MCP SDK (types.js and its zod schemas, the client, shared/protocol.js, zod-to-json-schema), on top of the CommonJS copy the SDK had already required. runStdio() now uses the statically imported @frontmcp/protocol, as the HTTP transport already does, so a CommonJS stdio server uses one copy of the MCP SDK. In an ESM process the import resolves the same ESM module as before. (cherry picked from commit 9201f8a) * perf(sdk,protocol): load the Streamable HTTP server transport with the first HTTP session (#924) * perf(sdk,protocol): load the Streamable HTTP server transport with the first HTTP session A stdio server loaded the MCP SDK's Node Streamable HTTP transport at startup, and with it @hono/node-server, which reads the global Request and Response when it loads and so makes Node load its bundled undici. Two things did it: @frontmcp/protocol's CommonJS root required #mcp-streamable-http, and the SDK's RecreateableStreamableHTTPServerTransport, which extends the MCP SDK class, was defined when the SDK's root initialized the transport barrel. - #mcp-streamable-http gets a require variant whose getters load each transport the first time it is read, and a types entry ahead of it. - TransportStreamableHttpAdapter imports the recreateable transport as a type and loads it with loadStreamableHttpTransport(); TransportService awaits it where it creates a LocalTransporter, which it already did asynchronously. - The SDK root imports the in-memory server, web-fetch handler, web-standard helpers and transport types from their modules instead of the barrel, which initialized every module transport/index.ts re-exports. An HTTP server now loads the transport with its first session; a stdio server never does. * perf(sdk): load the Streamable HTTP transport only for Streamable HTTP and stateless HTTP sessions An SSE session uses TransportSSEAdapter, which never touches the Streamable HTTP class, so an SSE-only server no longer loads it either. (cherry picked from commit 4129311) * perf(sdk): import only the semver functions the ESM loader uses (#925) semver.utils.ts imported the semver package root, which loads all 46 of its files, at startup. It uses seven functions; importing them from their own modules (semver/functions/*.js, semver/ranges/*.js) loads 23 files, with the same results. (cherry picked from commit f9bf70c) * fix(sdk): create one stateless transport when the first requests for its key arrive together (#932) * fix(sdk): create one stateless transport when the first requests for its key arrive together getOrCreateAnonymousStatelessTransport and getOrCreateAuthenticatedStatelessTransport checked lookupLocal(key), then awaited the transport's creation and ready() before insertLocal(key). Concurrent first requests could each create one; the later insert replaced the earlier, and the earlier one's disposal then evicted the replacement by key. Both now go through the creationMutex createTransporter already uses. (cherry picked from commit 21c4da8) * build(scripts): say why escape-non-ascii stops on a regular-expression literal or tagged template, and how to fix it esbuild keeps non-ASCII characters in regular-expression literals and tagged templates as written, so it can't confirm that an escape there leaves the program the same, and after a backslash an escape doesn't. The script still stops the build, now naming both cases and the fix: write the character as a \\uXXXX escape in the source. (cherry picked from commit 998f5d5) * build(scripts): tell how to write a tagged template without non-ASCII, since an escape changes its raw text A tag that reads raw text, like String.raw, gets the escape's backslash and letters, so the advice to write \uXXXX escapes only holds for regular-expression literals. For a tagged template the error now says to write it without them, for example with an interpolation under String.raw. (cherry picked from commit 26a3aab)
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perf/1.10.x-utils-lazy-redos). Merge in order.What and why
V8 keeps the source of every loaded script for the life of the process, and pre-parses all of it when the script loads.
@frontmcp/sdk's CommonJS bundle is 3.07 million characters; about a third of that is comments and indentation.Every publishable package's
build-cjsandbuild-esmtargets now set esbuild'sminifyWhitespace, except the three that browser apps bundle (@frontmcp/react,@frontmcp/uiand@frontmcp/plugin-webmcp, which keep their/* @__PURE__ */annotations for tree-shaking; the SDK loads none of them): comments, indentation and line breaks go; identifiers and syntax stay (nominifyIdentifiers, nominifySyntax, nokeepNames, so function and class names are the same as before). The tsc-built packages (frontmcp,@frontmcp/nx,@frontmcp/skills) stop emitting.js.mapfiles (sourceMapandinlineSourcesoff), so no package ships source maps.@frontmcp/sdkindex.js@frontmcp/sdkesm/index.mjs@frontmcp/authindex.js@frontmcp/utilsindex.jsfrontmcp(CLI), installedThe trade-off. A stack trace into a
@frontmcp/*package now points at a column on a long line (index.js:1:482113) instead of a readable line, and the packages ship no source maps to map it back.What depends on comments, and what this does about it.
minifyWhitespacedrops every comment, including the ones bundlers read:import(/* webpackIgnore: true */ /* @vite-ignore */ specifier). Without those comments, rspack (whichfrontmcp builduses for the lambda and vercel targets) turns theimport()into a context that rejects withCannot find moduleat run time: a test bundle ofimport(specifier)without them, built with the CLI's rspack settings, rejectedimport('node:path')that way, and with them it loaded.importComputednow lives in its own module,esm-loader/import-computed.ts, which the SDK reaches through the#import-computedsubpath import. The CommonJS, ESM and browser bundles keep it external, and the SDK'sbuildtarget compiles it unminified with esbuild intodist/esm-loader/import-computed.jsanddist/esm/esm-loader/import-computed.mjs, so the comments ship./* @__PURE__ */annotations (the SDK's 17FlowHooksOfhook exports, and esbuild's own helper annotations) let a bundler drop unused calls. The browser builds (dist/browser, which browser and Worker bundlers resolve through thebrowsercondition) are not minified, so their annotations and their per-module tree-shaking stay as they are. In the minified ESM build, a bundler that resolvesimport(notbrowser) keeps the 17 small hook objects if they are unused; that changes bundle size only.Function.prototype.toString(): the two uses (detectUITypein the SDK and uipack's template renderer) read a user's template function, and their pattern (/\b(?:React\.createElement|_?jsx(?:s|DEV)?)\)?\s*\(/) allows any whitespace. No test snapshots built package output.scripts/escape-non-ascii.mjs(the PR at the bottom of this stack) still runs on every package and CI still checks the output: the minified builds come out ASCII-only on their own, and it still escapes the browser builds and the tsc-built packages.Results
Apple M4 Pro (14 cores, 48 GiB), macOS 15.6.1, Node.js 24.18.1, on AC power, with the machine's normal background load (an IDE and other jobs). The server is the benchmark's FrontMCP implementation (
frontmcp build --target node), run withnodeand no flags, againstnpm packed builds of each branch of this stack and ofrelease/1.10.x, installed into scratch copies of the implementation and built withnpm run build, all measured in one session in randomized, interleaved rounds with the benchmark's own harness functions. Cold start is the time from spawningnodeto the firsttools/callresponse,initializeincluded: one discarded start per server, then 8 rounds of 4 starts per transport in random order. The 100-tool startup is spawn to the first fulltools/list, 5 rounds of 2 starts. Throughput is the benchmark's closed-looptools/callat concurrency 1, 16 and 64 (3 s warmup, 10 s measured, 5 rounds); RSS after startup is read 1 s after the first call, RSS after load after the last level, median of the 5 rounds. Heap used isprocess.memoryUsage().heapUsed700 ms after start (after the first call, no forced GC), median of 10 interleaved starts in a separate run right after. MB is 10^6 bytes. The 1-minute load average was 3.6 to 11 during the session (median 6.5), and 6.8 to 13.2 during the heap run.perf/1.10.x-utils-lazy-redos)tools/list, p50Per round, the median cold start moved by -4.7 ms over HTTP and -6.4 ms over stdio; the p90s include rounds where the machine's background load spiked. With less to allocate during startup, V8 also stops growing the young generation at 16 MB per semi-space instead of 32 MB, which accounts for part of the RSS drop.
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nx run-many -t build --projects=tag:scope:publishable: everybuild-cjsandbuild-esmoutput except react's, ui's and plugin-webmcp's is whitespace-minified, the escape step finds nothing to escape in them, and no.js.map,.mjs.mapor.cjs.mapfile is left in anydist.Built SDK, checked by hand:
dist/index.jsrequires#import-computed, which resolves todist/esm-loader/import-computed.js(CommonJS) and, for an ESM importer,dist/esm/esm-loader/import-computed.mjs; both keep/* webpackIgnore: true */ /* @vite-ignore */and loadnode:path. The browser builds keep their@__PURE__annotations (514 indist/browser/index.cjs).frontmcp build --target lambdaof the benchmark implementation with this stack's packages: rspack bundlesimportComputedwith its comments intohandler.cjs, as a nativeimport().scripts/browser-build-conditions.test.mjspasses with#import-computedexternal in the CommonJS, ESM and browser builds.Run on the top of this stack (
perf/1.10.x-sdk-semver-subpaths), which contains this change:nx run-many -t test,lint,typecheck --projects=tag:scope:publishable(27 projects): all pass, no lint errors. SDK 7,131 tests, auth 2,810, cli 2,105, utils 1,909, plugin-codecall 1,208, adapters 1,011, react 758, uipack 537, plugin-remember 515, observability 496, ui 488, nx-plugin 424, plugin-skilled-openapi 407, testing 377 (8 skipped), and the rest.node --test scripts/*.test.mjs: 83 pass.e2e: bundle-size 8, stdio-transport 26, transport-recreation 40, direct 77, esm 26 (and
test:e2e26), cloudflare 16 (5 skipped), serverless 17, cli-exec 198, dts-consumer 7, remote 31, remote-proxy 3, testing 21, local-auth 73, standalone 49, mcpb 19, unix-socket 20, codecall 37, skills 188 (2 skipped), browser-bundle (Playwright) 11 pass. demo-e2e-public passes 11 of 12, in two runs: the other test could not bind 127.0.0.1:50000 to 50002 (listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:50000), which WebStorm on this machine listens on, inside the suite's port range. The suite takes no port or base-port override (the port registry's free-port check binds the wildcard address, so it doesn't see those three), so that test is left to CI, which has nothing on those ports.The benchmark's correctness gate (HTTP, stdio and the 100-tool server) passes against the build of every branch in the stack.
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