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Summary

mergeDistantRules gave a rule the selectors of a later one printing the same block, past what stood between them, but declined an at-rule outright — so @media X{…}c{…}@media X{…} kept both preludes where the adjacent pair already joins. The two are one rewrite read from either end: one moves a selector to a block already out, the other moves a block to a condition already stated.

It declines what moving the block could change: only an at-rule whose block holds rules, and only where nothing between the two declares a property one of them does (an at-rule between declares everything, the walk not seeing into it). A named @layer is not this rewrite — its place in the cascade is where its name is first written rather than what its prelude states — so _mergeNamedLayerBlocks keeps it. Still behind the same off-by-default switch, since it reorders the cascade.

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

perf — smaller emitted CSS under an existing option; no new option, and nothing changes unless mergeDistantRules is set.

Did you add tests for your changes?

Yes — configCases/css/minimize-merge-distant-rules gains the at-rule corpus beside the rule one it already had: a run of three @media gathering into the first, and the five shapes that stay apart (a conflicting property between, an at-rule between, a different prelude, @keyframes, named @layer). Every pre-existing line of its snapshot is byte-identical.

Does this PR introduce a breaking change?

No — off by default, and every existing css/html snapshot passes unchanged.

If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?

mergeDistantRules' description in schemas/WebpackOptions.json is updated to state both halves and the @layer exception; if the docs quote the old selectors-only wording, that sentence is the one to replace.

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AI (Claude Code) was used to find that this needed two code paths rather than one (the top level is streamed, so it holds the at-rule as a retractable piece the way _seenTopLevelLayers does), write the cases, and probe the boundaries. Two defects it introduced were caught that way and fixed before pushing: a kept comment between two at-rules was being moved after the merged block, and a folded at-rule still marked itself as declaring everything so a third could not gather. Both were checked against a clean tree first. All output was reviewed and lint, types, the generators and the targeted suites were run locally.


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  • New Features

    • CSS minification can merge compatible, non-adjacent at-rules with identical conditions when mergeDistantRules is enabled.
    • Cascade behavior is preserved by keeping named layers, conflicting declarations, and incompatible at-rules separate.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration documentation to describe distant at-rule merging and its limitations.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for successful merges and scenarios that must remain separate.

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The CSS minifier now merges eligible distant at-rules with matching conditions when mergeDistantRules is enabled. It preserves separation for shadowing declarations and excludes unsupported bodies, @layer, and redeclared @keyframes.

CSS distant at-rule merging

Layer / File(s) Summary
At-rule state and parse integration
lib/css/syntax.js
The CSS walker tracks distant at-rules, handles matching top-level candidates, skips duplicate numbering after folding, and resets the new state at parse boundaries.
At-rule validation and merging
lib/css/syntax.js
The minifier validates at-rule bodies, checks property shadowing, and joins compatible entries during the distant-merge post-pass.
Configuration coverage and release metadata
test/configCases/css/minimize-merge-distant-rules/*, schemas/WebpackOptions.json, lib/css/cssMinify.js, .changeset/086-css-merge-distant-at-rules.md
Tests cover successful merges and non-mergeable cases. The schema, comment, test description, and changeset describe the expanded behavior.

Suggested reviewers: bjohansebas

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ff892

CSS using escaped layer or keyframes at-keywords can be minified with changed cascade or keyframe redeclaration behavior when distant-rule merging is enabled. The input shape is narrow, but the fixes should be applied before release.

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In @.changeset/086-css-merge-distant-at-rules.md:
- Line 5: Shorten the changeset summary to stay within 80 characters while
preserving its imperative meaning, using the mergeDistantRules identifier and
describing merging distant at-rules with the same condition.

In `@lib/css/syntax.js`:
- Around line 6160-6161: Update _gatherDistantAtRule to return false when
_atRuleName(prelude) is "layer", placing this guard after the prelude is
computed and before consulting _distantAtRules, so named and anonymous `@layer`
rules are never merged.

In `@test/configCases/css/minimize-merge-distant-rules/test.config.js`:
- Line 26: Update the assertion around the CSS result to verify the complete
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❌ Memory benchmark "side-effects-reexport", scenario '{"name":"mode-development-rebuild","mode":"development","watch":true}' 153.9 KB 903.3 KB -82.96%
❌ Memory benchmark "many-chunks-commonjs", scenario '{"name":"mode-development-rebuild","mode":"development","watch":true}' 187.5 KB 468.3 KB -59.96%
❌ Memory benchmark "many-modules-interop-runtime", scenario '{"name":"mode-production","mode":"production"}', measure 'exec' 19.1 KB 26.4 KB -27.57%
⚡ Memory benchmark "common-libs", scenario '{"name":"mode-development-rebuild","mode":"development","watch":true}' 896.1 KB 568.9 KB +57.51%
⚡ Memory benchmark "asset-modules-bytes", scenario '{"name":"mode-production","mode":"production"}' 8.4 MB 6.2 MB +36.33%
⚡ Memory benchmark "import-meta-glob", scenario '{"name":"mode-development","mode":"development"}' 1.8 MB 1.3 MB +33.99%
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…the changeset

Reported by CodeRabbit on #22174.

The changeset line ran to 86 characters where the guide caps it at 80.

`@keyframes phi` was asserted by a substring neither the merged nor the
separated form contains, so it could not fail; it now states the whole
two-block sequence the case is about. An anonymous `@layer` was not
covered at all — `style.css` had only the named one — and it is the case
worth pinning, since two anonymous layers are two layers rather than one
condition written twice.

`_gatherDistantAtRule` now names the layer rule itself rather than
leaving it to `_joinRuleEntries`, which already refuses both spellings
(`ANONYMOUS_LAYER_RE`, and its `mergeRules` bail). No output moves — the
new case passes on the parent commit too — but the streaming path now
reads like the nested one, and a layer no longer occupies a held piece
that could never be folded.
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…the changeset

Reported by CodeRabbit on #22174.

The changeset line ran to 86 characters where the guide caps it at 80.

`@keyframes phi` was asserted by a substring neither the merged nor the
separated form contains, so it could not fail; it now states the whole
two-block sequence the case is about. An anonymous `@layer` was not
covered at all — `style.css` had only the named one — and it is the case
worth pinning, since two anonymous layers are two layers rather than one
condition written twice.

`_gatherDistantAtRule` now names the layer rule itself rather than
leaving it to `_joinRuleEntries`, which already refuses both spellings
(`ANONYMOUS_LAYER_RE`, and its `mergeRules` bail). No output moves — the
new case passes on the parent commit too — but the streaming path now
reads like the nested one, and a layer no longer occupies a held piece
that could never be folded.
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…the changeset

Reported by CodeRabbit on #22174.

The changeset line ran to 86 characters where the guide caps it at 80.

`@keyframes phi` was asserted by a substring neither the merged nor the
separated form contains, so it could not fail; it now states the whole
two-block sequence the case is about. An anonymous `@layer` was not
covered at all — `style.css` had only the named one — and it is the case
worth pinning, since two anonymous layers are two layers rather than one
condition written twice.

`_gatherDistantAtRule` now names the layer rule itself rather than
leaving it to `_joinRuleEntries`, which already refuses both spellings
(`ANONYMOUS_LAYER_RE`, and its `mergeRules` bail). No output moves — the
new case passes on the parent commit too — but the streaming path now
reads like the nested one, and a layer no longer occupies a held piece
that could never be folded.
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…the changeset

Reported by CodeRabbit on #22174.

The changeset line ran to 86 characters where the guide caps it at 80.

`@keyframes phi` was asserted by a substring neither the merged nor the
separated form contains, so it could not fail; it now states the whole
two-block sequence the case is about. An anonymous `@layer` was not
covered at all — `style.css` had only the named one — and it is the case
worth pinning, since two anonymous layers are two layers rather than one
condition written twice.

`_gatherDistantAtRule` now names the layer rule itself rather than
leaving it to `_joinRuleEntries`, which already refuses both spellings
(`ANONYMOUS_LAYER_RE`, and its `mergeRules` bail). No output moves — the
new case passes on the parent commit too — but the streaming path now
reads like the nested one, and a layer no longer occupies a held piece
that could never be folded.
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🟡 Minor · Parse the complete escaped at-keyword before excluding `@layer`. · syntax.js:5390-5400

lib/css/syntax.js:5390-5400
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Parse the complete escaped at-keyword before excluding @layer. @\\6c ayer is valid CSS, but the current regex stops at the escape delimiter, so _atRuleName(prelude) sees \\6c. Both distant-merge guards can therefore allow the generic merge. Merely unescaping the current capture is insufficient; scan the complete token, including the consumed delimiter, before unescaping it.

Suggested fix
-const AT_RULE_NAME_RE = /^@([^\s({;]+)/;
+const AT_RULE_NAME_RE =
+	/^@((?:\\(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,6}(?:[ \t\f]|\r\n?|\n)?|[^\r\n\f])|[^\s({;])+/;

const _atRuleName = (prelude) => {
	const match = AT_RULE_NAME_RE.exec(prelude);
-	return match === null ? "" : match[1].toLowerCase();
+	return match === null
+		? ""
+		: toLowerCaseIfNeeded(unescapeIdentifier(match[1]));
};
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In `@lib/css/syntax.js` around lines 5390 - 5400, Update AT_RULE_NAME_RE and
_atRuleName so escaped at-rule names are scanned as complete CSS tokens,
including any escape delimiter, before unescaping and lowercasing. Ensure
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In `@lib/css/syntax.js`:
- Around line 15865-15878: The _mergeDistantAtRule function must exclude escaped
`@keyframes` from generic at-rule merging by detecting the decoded at-rule name,
alongside its existing `@layer` exclusion. Ensure keyframe redeclarations bypass
the held/prelude join path and retain normal redeclaration behavior.

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In `@lib/css/syntax.js`:
- Around line 5390-5400: Update AT_RULE_NAME_RE and _atRuleName so escaped
at-rule names are scanned as complete CSS tokens, including any escape
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Comment thread lib/css/syntax.js
Comment on lines +15865 to +15878
const _mergeDistantAtRule = (items, texts, held, entry, at) => {
const prelude = entry.text.slice(0, entry.prelude);
// WHY: a layer's place in the cascade is where its name is first written, not
// what its prelude states, so two blocks naming one are not the pair of equal
// conditions this joins. `_mergeNamedLayerBlocks` gathers those under the rule
// that order gives it, and an anonymous `@layer` opens a layer of its own.
if (_atRuleName(prelude) === "layer") return;
const first = held.get(prelude);
if (first === undefined) {
held.set(prelude, at);
return;
}
const declared = _atRuleBodyProperties(entry);
if (declared === null) return;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n -C 5 'keyframes|KEYFRAMES|_isKeyframes|AT_RULE_NAME_RE|_atRuleName|_atRuleBodyProperties|_mergeDistantAtRule' lib/css/syntax.js
sed -n '15725,15925p' lib/css/syntax.js
sed -n '730,775p' lib/css/syntax.js
rg -n -C 3 'keyframes phi|mergeDistantRules' test/configCases/css/minimize-merge-distant-rules test/unitCases/CssSyntax.unittest.js

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Do not merge escaped @keyframes as generic at-rules. AtRule.name preserves the raw source spelling, so @\\6b eyframes does not match KEYFRAMES_AT_RULE_RE. Its child blocks receive the normal selector list kind and pass _atRuleBodyProperties. Two identical preludes then reach _joinRuleEntries, which returns one at-rule containing both child blocks. This changes a later @keyframes redeclaration into an additive merge. Detect the decoded keyframe name at _mergeDistantAtRule and exclude it, in addition to handling escaped @layer.

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In `@lib/css/syntax.js` around lines 15865 - 15878, The _mergeDistantAtRule
function must exclude escaped `@keyframes` from generic at-rule merging by
detecting the decoded at-rule name, alongside its existing `@layer` exclusion.
Ensure keyframe redeclarations bypass the held/prelude join path and retain
normal redeclaration behavior.

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alexander-akait added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2026
…the changeset

Reported by CodeRabbit on #22174.

The changeset line ran to 86 characters where the guide caps it at 80.

`@keyframes phi` was asserted by a substring neither the merged nor the
separated form contains, so it could not fail; it now states the whole
two-block sequence the case is about. An anonymous `@layer` was not
covered at all — `style.css` had only the named one — and it is the case
worth pinning, since two anonymous layers are two layers rather than one
condition written twice.

`_gatherDistantAtRule` now names the layer rule itself rather than
leaving it to `_joinRuleEntries`, which already refuses both spellings
(`ANONYMOUS_LAYER_RE`, and its `mergeRules` bail). No output moves — the
new case passes on the parent commit too — but the streaming path now
reads like the nested one, and a layer no longer occupies a held piece
that could never be folded.
alexander-akait added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2026
Reported by CodeRabbit on #22174, which read `_mergeDistantAtRule` as
merging an escaped `@keyframes` because the name check would miss it.

It does not, and the reason is one level up: entries are collected only
for a name `MERGEABLE_AT_RULES` holds, read off the parser, so an escaped
spelling carries no children and both merge paths stop at
`entry.children === null`. The control is `@media` written the same way —
the one at-rule a plain spelling does merge — which stays as written too.

Pinned as unit tests rather than in the config case: an escaped at-rule
anywhere in a sheet stops an earlier distant rule merge, on `main` as
much as here, so putting one in that fixture would quietly retire its own
first assertion rather than add to it.
@alexander-akait
alexander-akait force-pushed the perf/css-merge-distant-at-rules branch from ff892d9 to 3893176 Compare September 20, 2026 11:45
`mergeDistantRules` gave a rule the selectors of a later one printing the
same block, past what stood between them, but declined an at-rule outright
— so `@media X{…}c{…}@media X{…}` kept both preludes where the adjacent
pair joins. The two are the same rewrite read from either end: one moves a
selector to a block already out, the other moves a block to a condition
already stated.

Both paths the printer has now do it. `_gatherDistantAtRule` holds a
top-level at-rule as a retractable piece keyed by its prelude and folds a
later one into it, the way `_seenTopLevelLayers` gathers a named layer;
`_mergeDistantRules` does the same over a block's own children. The join
itself is `_joinRuleEntries`, which already merged the adjacent pair, so
the seam and the `;` it drops are handled where they were.

What it declines is what moving the block could change. Only an at-rule
whose block holds rules, and only where nothing between the two declares a
property one of them does — a condition between counting for what its own
rules declare, while anything whose declarations cannot be read stands in
the way whatever it says. A named `@layer` is not this rewrite: its
place in the cascade is where its name is first written rather than what
its prelude states, and `_mergeNamedLayerBlocks` gathers those under the
rule that order gives it. A folded block stands nowhere afterwards, so it
is numbered nowhere either and a run of them gathers into the first.

Still behind the same off-by-default switch: it reorders the cascade.
Reported by CodeRabbit on #22174.

`@keyframes phi` was asserted by a substring neither the merged nor the
separated form contains, so it could not fail; it now states the whole
two-block sequence the case is about. An anonymous `@layer` was not
covered at all — `style.css` had only the named one — and it is the case
worth pinning, since two anonymous layers are two layers rather than one
condition written twice.

`_gatherDistantAtRule` now names the layer rule itself rather than
leaving it to `_joinRuleEntries`, which already refuses both spellings
(`ANONYMOUS_LAYER_RE`, and its `mergeRules` bail). No output moves — the
new case passes on the parent commit too — but the streaming path now
reads like the nested one, and a layer no longer occupies a held piece
that could never be folded.
Reported by CodeRabbit on #22174, which read `_mergeDistantAtRule` as
merging an escaped `@keyframes` because the name check would miss it.

It does not, and the reason is one level up: entries are collected only
for a name `MERGEABLE_AT_RULES` holds, read off the parser, so an escaped
spelling carries no children and both merge paths stop at
`entry.children === null`. The control is `@media` written the same way —
the one at-rule a plain spelling does merge — which stays as written too.

Pinned as unit tests rather than in the config case: an escaped at-rule
anywhere in a sheet stops an earlier distant rule merge, on `main` as
much as here, so putting one in that fixture would quietly retire its own
first assertion rather than add to it.
@alexander-akait
alexander-akait force-pushed the perf/css-merge-distant-at-rules branch from 3893176 to 041b119 Compare September 20, 2026 19:50
The config case drives both merge paths, but the minifier runs in a
worker thread, where jest's instrumentation does not see it — so the
nested path read as nine uncovered lines. The unit suite drives it
directly: the join, the property between that blocks it, a condition
whose declarations cannot be read, and the named layer gathered as a
layer rather than as a condition stated twice.
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alexander-akait added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2026
`mergeDistantRules` landed with two expectations written before #22201 made
an at-keyword read as the name its escapes spell. They assert that
`@\6d edia` is left as it stands and that an escaped `@keyframes` keeps
`from` — both of which were only true while the tables were keyed by the raw
spelling, so they have failed on `main` since #22174 merged.

The behaviour is the one #22201 established and is what the plain spelling
already gets: the two escaped conditions join, the sheet echoes the spelling
back as written, and the keyframe selector shortens. Added alongside is the
refusal under an escaped name, since reading the name is what reaches it.
alexander-akait added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 21, 2026
…t of lib/ root (#22213)

* refactor: group the module graph's nodes and edges into lib/graph/

`lib/graph/` already held the two graphs a compilation carries; it now holds
what they are graphs of. The edges join it — `Dependency`, the
`DependenciesBlock` holding them and the `AsyncDependenciesBlock` for a block
loaded on demand — and so does the chunk side, `Chunk`, `ChunkGroup`,
`Entrypoint` and `HotUpdateChunk`. `lib/dependencies/` keeps the concrete
subclasses and `lib/template/` the `DependencyTemplate` they print through;
these are the base classes every build has. Root goes from 49 files to 45.

Three re-exports are owed and kept. `ignore-webpack-plugin` requires
`lib/Dependency` at the top level and peers webpack >=5;
`external-svg-sprite-loader` and its pixolith fork require `lib/Chunk` the
same way; `@vue/preload-webpack-plugin` requires `lib/Entrypoint` at module
scope and peers webpack 5. `lib/Chunk`'s and `lib/Entrypoint`'s `tsType` in
the schema point at the real path, since a type cannot be read through the
re-export.

`lib/AsyncDependenciesBlock` is recorded as unreachable instead: its only
importer is hard-source-webpack-plugin, which also imports
`lib/DependenciesBlockVariable` and `lib/JavascriptGenerator`, both removed
in webpack 5. The two serializable classes keep their old request restorable
through `registerLegacyRequest`, so a cache pack written before this loads.

`AsyncDependenciesBlock`'s removed-property tombstone gains the JSDoc its
`Dependency` counterpart already carried — without it the getter infers an
implicit `any` that `tsc` reports once the file moves.

* refactor: group the define plugins into lib/define/

`DefinePlugin` replaces a free identifier with a constant at parse time, and
`EnvironmentPlugin` and `DotenvPlugin` are each that same plugin fed from
somewhere else — one from `process.env`, one from a `.env` file, both
constructing a `DefinePlugin` and handing it definitions. The three move
together. `ProvidePlugin` substitutes an import rather than a value, so it
stays out. Root goes from 45 files to 42.

No re-export is owed: the ecosystem scan records no package importing any of
the three paths, and none of them is serializable or named by a `tsType`.
`DotenvPlugin` reads `schemas/WebpackOptions.json` relative to itself to
validate its own options, so that request moves down a level with it.

* refactor: move the last three stragglers into the directories that own them

`ModuleInfoHeaderPlugin` prints the per-module comment header into the
generated bundle through `Template`, so it joins `lib/template/`.
`LazyBarrel` finds the barrel files worth deferring and is required only by
`Compilation`, and `ConcatenationScope` is the protocol scope hoisting runs
on — `lib/optimize/ConcatenatedModule.js` is the only thing that constructs
one, while generators across `lib/` render through it — so both join
`lib/optimize/`. Root goes from 42 files to 39.

`lib/errors/` needed nothing: `WebpackError` and `ModuleNotFoundError` were
moved there already and the root files are re-exports, as are `InitFragment`
and `DependencyTemplate` for `lib/template/`. No re-export is owed for these
three — the ecosystem scan records no package importing them — and none is
serializable or named by a `tsType`.

* refactor: record every path this moves that the scan finds no importer for

The three-way classification the guide describes leaves a path nobody imports
in neither map, which reads as an omission rather than as a decision. Record
those nine under `removed` with the reason, so the record answers for every
path that left `lib/` root in this change rather than only for the ones an
importer was found for.

The consequence is worth stating: `--write` skips a path `removed` names, so
a package that starts importing one of these later is no longer recorded, and
`--check` no longer learns a re-export is owed.

* test(css): expect an escaped at-keyword to join like the name it spells

`mergeDistantRules` landed with two expectations written before #22201 made
an at-keyword read as the name its escapes spell. They assert that
`@\6d edia` is left as it stands and that an escaped `@keyframes` keeps
`from` — both of which were only true while the tables were keyed by the raw
spelling, so they have failed on `main` since #22174 merged.

The behaviour is the one #22201 established and is what the plain spelling
already gets: the two escaped conditions join, the sheet echoes the spelling
back as written, and the keyframe selector shortens. Added alongside is the
refusal under an escaped name, since reading the name is what reaches it.
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