release: patch cli, compiler, core, csr, syntax, validation

Typed, callable api blocks for .wrn files: sectioned request/response/error,
callable from client code as api.name(input), type-checked by tsc against the
route contracts.

Also two fixes found along the way: defineEndpoint never received its input
through the real router, so every typed endpoint was validating undefined; and
v.boolean() silently coerced any unrecognised string to false.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitignore

@@ -25,3 +25,6 @@ tsconfig.focus.json
 # "@wrnexus/*" bare specifiers (resolved via the root tsconfig.json `paths`,
 # which requires the scaffold to live inside the repo tree).
 **/test/.tmp-*/
+
+# Subagent-driven-development scratch (ledger, briefs, review packages)
+.superpowers/

.prettierignore

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ bun.lockb
 # Generated code (queries.gen.ts, routes.gen.ts, etc.)
 **/*.gen.ts
 **/*.generated.d.ts
+**/*.generated.api-checks.ts
 
 # Bundled .wrn compiler for the VS Code extension (generated)
 editors/vscode/src/compiler.cjs

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,33 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+- Fixed `v.boolean()` coercion in `@wrnexus/validation` (`checkField` in both `src/index.ts`
+  and the browser mirror in `src/runtime.ts`): previously any string other than `"true"` or
+  `"on"` silently coerced to `false` with no error, so typos and unrecognised values (e.g.
+  `"yes"`, `"1"`, `"TRUE"`, `"treu"`) passed validation as a silent, wrong `false`. Now
+  recognised true strings (`"true"`, `"on"`, `"1"`, `"yes"`, case-insensitive and trimmed) and
+  false strings (`"false"`, `"off"`, `"0"`, `"no"`) coerce as expected, numeric `1`/`0` coerce
+  (for JSON payloads), and absent/empty input (`undefined`/`null`/`""`) still coerces to
+  `false` exactly as before (unchanged HTML-checkbox semantics). **Behavior change for
+  downstream apps:** any other value — an unrecognised string, an object, an array — is now a
+  type error (`desc.typeMessage` or "Must be true or false") instead of a silent `false`. A
+  required boolean field given `false` still errors, as before (checkbox-required semantics
+  are unchanged). A repo-wide search of `packages/`, `examples/`, and `services/` found no
+  existing `v.boolean()` usage that feeds an unrecognised value, so no call sites are expected
+  to start failing.
+
+- Fixed `defineEndpoint` (`@wrnexus/core`) so routes invoked through the real HTTP router
+  (which calls handlers as `handler(ctx)`, with no second argument) actually receive their
+  request input: it now parses query parameters for GET/HEAD and the JSON body otherwise
+  when no input is passed explicitly. Previously such endpoints silently validated
+  `undefined`, so an `input` schema with only optional fields passed vacuously regardless of
+  what was sent. **Behavior change for downstream apps:** a request that previously passed
+  vacuous validation on a `defineEndpoint` route can now legitimately fail (400
+  `VALIDATION_ERROR`) if it does not actually satisfy the schema. Explicitly passing a second
+  argument (e.g. from a unit test or an internal caller) is unaffected and still takes
+  priority over reading the request.
+
 ## 0.8.8
 
 - Added the framework request context to `.wrn` language-server type environments.

bun.lock

@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
     },
     "packages/cli": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/cli",
-      "version": "0.8.41",
+      "version": "0.8.46",
       "bin": {
         "wrnexus": "src/index.ts",
       },
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
     },
     "packages/compiler": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/compiler",
-      "version": "0.8.11",
+      "version": "0.8.14",
       "dependencies": {
         "@wrnexus/csr": "workspace:*",
         "@wrnexus/store": "workspace:*",
@@ -318,18 +318,18 @@
     },
     "packages/core": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/core",
-      "version": "0.8.9",
+      "version": "0.8.10",
     },
     "packages/csr": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/csr",
-      "version": "0.8.21",
+      "version": "0.8.25",
       "dependencies": {
         "@wrnexus/core": "workspace:*",
       },
     },
     "packages/db": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/db",
-      "version": "0.8.15",
+      "version": "0.8.16",
       "devDependencies": {
         "@types/bun": "^1.3.14",
         "typescript": "^6.0.3",
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@
     },
     "packages/dev-server": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/dev-server",
-      "version": "0.8.37",
+      "version": "0.8.41",
       "dependencies": {
         "@wrnexus/authz": "workspace:*",
         "@wrnexus/cache": "workspace:*",
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
     },
     "packages/dev-toolbar": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/dev-toolbar",
-      "version": "0.8.12",
+      "version": "0.8.13",
       "devDependencies": {
         "@types/bun": "^1.3.14",
         "typescript": "^6.0.3",
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@
     },
     "packages/i18n": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/i18n",
-      "version": "0.8.11",
+      "version": "0.8.12",
       "dependencies": {
         "@wrnexus/core": "workspace:*",
         "@wrnexus/plugin": "workspace:*",
@@ -451,13 +451,14 @@
     },
     "packages/language-server": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/language-server",
-      "version": "0.8.9",
+      "version": "0.8.11",
       "bin": {
         "wrnexus-language-server": "src/server.ts",
       },
       "dependencies": {
         "@wrnexus/syntax": "workspace:*",
         "@wrnexus/typecheck": "workspace:*",
+        "vscode-html-languageservice": "^5.6.2",
       },
     },
     "packages/mcp": {
@@ -533,7 +534,7 @@
     },
     "packages/react": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/react",
-      "version": "0.8.8",
+      "version": "0.8.9",
       "dependencies": {
         "@wrnexus/store": "workspace:*",
       },
@@ -621,7 +622,7 @@
     },
     "packages/syntax": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/syntax",
-      "version": "0.8.9",
+      "version": "0.8.10",
     },
     "packages/test": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/test",
@@ -641,7 +642,7 @@
     },
     "packages/ui": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/ui",
-      "version": "0.8.19",
+      "version": "0.8.20",
       "dependencies": {
         "@wrnexus/core": "workspace:*",
       },
@@ -662,7 +663,7 @@
     },
     "packages/validation": {
       "name": "@wrnexus/validation",
-      "version": "0.8.10",
+      "version": "0.8.11",
       "dependencies": {
         "@wrnexus/core": "workspace:*",
         "@wrnexus/plugin": "workspace:*",
@@ -967,6 +968,8 @@
 
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+    "@vscode/l10n": ["@vscode/l10n@0.0.18", "", {}, "sha512-KYSIHVmslkaCDyw013pphY+d7x1qV8IZupYfeIfzNA+nsaWHbn5uPuQRvdRFsa9zFzGeudPuoGoZ1Op4jrJXIQ=="],
+
     "@wrnexus/ai": ["@wrnexus/ai@workspace:packages/ai"],
 
     "@wrnexus/auth": ["@wrnexus/auth@workspace:packages/auth"],
@@ -1387,6 +1390,14 @@
 
     "uri-js": ["uri-js@4.4.1", "", { "dependencies": { "punycode": "^2.1.0" } }, "sha512-7rKUyy33Q1yc98pQ1DAmLtwX109F7TIfWlW1Ydo8Wl1ii1SeHieeh0HHfPeL2fMXK6z0s8ecKs9frCuLJvndBg=="],
 
+    "vscode-html-languageservice": ["vscode-html-languageservice@5.6.2", "", { "dependencies": { "@vscode/l10n": "^0.0.18", "vscode-languageserver-textdocument": "^1.0.12", "vscode-languageserver-types": "^3.17.5", "vscode-uri": "^3.1.0" } }, "sha512-ulCrSnFnfQ16YzvwnYUgEbUEl/ZG7u2eV27YhvLObSHKkb8fw1Z9cgsnUwjTEeDIdJDoTDTDpxuhQwoenoLNMg=="],
+
+    "vscode-languageserver-textdocument": ["vscode-languageserver-textdocument@1.0.12", "", {}, "sha512-cxWNPesCnQCcMPeenjKKsOCKQZ/L6Tv19DTRIGuLWe32lyzWhihGVJ/rcckZXJxfdKCFvRLS3fpBIsV/ZGX4zA=="],
+
+    "vscode-languageserver-types": ["vscode-languageserver-types@3.18.0", "", {}, "sha512-8TsGPNMIMiiBdkORgRSvLjuiEIiAFtO+KssmYWxQ+uSVvlf7RjK8YKCOjPzZ+YA04jXEV7+7LvkSmHkhpNS99g=="],
+
+    "vscode-uri": ["vscode-uri@3.1.0", "", {}, "sha512-/BpdSx+yCQGnCvecbyXdxHDkuk55/G3xwnC0GqY4gmQ3j+A+g8kzzgB4Nk/SINjqn6+waqw3EgbVF2QKExkRxQ=="],
+
     "web": ["web@workspace:examples/inter-app-api-showcase/apps/web"],
 
     "whatwg-mimetype": ["whatwg-mimetype@3.0.0", "", {}, "sha512-nt+N2dzIutVRxARx1nghPKGv1xHikU7HKdfafKkLNLindmPU/ch3U31NOCGGA/dmPcmb1VlofO0vnKAcsm0o/Q=="],

docs/WRN-LANGUAGE-SPEC-1.0.md

@@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ Supported view features include:
 - `{#each items as item, index key item.id}`, optional keys, and optional `{:empty}` branches
 - comments and scoped styles
 
+`{#if}` and `{#each}` are rendered on the server for the initial response and
+remain reactive after hydration. Browser state changes switch conditional
+branches and rerender loop rows, including the `{:empty}` branch.
+
 Output is escaped by default. Explicit raw HTML APIs must be treated as security
 boundaries.
 

docs/public-api-0.8.json

@@ -1040,7 +1040,8 @@
         "rpcManifest",
         "runtimeCapabilities",
         "runtimeTypeOf",
-        "serializeIslandProps"
+        "serializeIslandProps",
+        "stripBrowserTypes"
       ]
     },
     "@wrnexus/content": {
@@ -1674,6 +1675,7 @@
     "@wrnexus/i18n": {
       ".": [
         "ExtractedTranslationKey",
+        "I18N_DATA_ATTRIBUTE",
         "I18N_JS_HREF",
         "I18N_RUNTIME",
         "I18nConfig",
@@ -1710,6 +1712,7 @@
         "plural",
         "pseudoLocalize",
         "renderI18nData",
+        "renderI18nDataTag",
         "resolveI18n",
         "resolveLang",
         "translateHtml",
@@ -2851,7 +2854,10 @@
         "LexError",
         "Lexer",
         "Token",
-        "TokenType"
+        "TokenType",
+        "isIdentPart",
+        "isIdentStart",
+        "skipLiteralOrComment"
       ],
       "./types": [
         "RuntimeType",

docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-18-wrn-html-editing-design.md

@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
+# HTML editing support for `.wrn` files — Design
+
+**Date:** 2026-08-18
+**Status:** Approved for implementation
+**Scope:** HTML autocomplete, tag closing, hover, Emmet, and folding inside `view { }` blocks.
+
+## Goal
+
+Writing markup in a `.wrn` file should feel like writing HTML. Today it does not: there is
+syntax highlighting but no tag completion, no attribute completion, no tag closing, and no
+tag-level folding.
+
+The grammar already declares `embeddedLanguages` (`meta.embedded.block.html` → `html`), which is
+why markup _highlights_. That mapping only affects tokenization — VS Code's HTML language
+service does not run on `.wrn` documents, so none of the editing behaviour follows from it.
+
+### Non-goals
+
+- **HTML formatting.** See "Formatting is deliberately excluded" below.
+- Editor support outside VS Code beyond what standard LSP gives for free.
+- Changing `.wrn` syntax or the compiler.
+
+## Decisions
+
+| Question            | Decision                                                                     |
+| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Features            | Tag/attribute completion, auto-close and rename tags, hover + Emmet, folding |
+| Placement           | Shared language server; only auto-close-on-type is VS Code-specific          |
+| Completion strategy | One merged list, WRNexus entries ranked above HTML                           |
+| Region detection    | Tolerant scanner over a virtual document, not the AST                        |
+| HTML knowledge      | `vscode-html-languageservice`                                                |
+| Formatting          | Excluded — `formatWrn` already owns markup formatting                        |
+
+## Architecture
+
+### Virtual HTML document
+
+New module: `packages/language-server/src/html-regions.ts`, exporting
+`virtualHtmlDocument(document)`.
+
+Everything outside a `view { }` block is replaced by whitespace of **identical length**, with
+newlines preserved. The virtual document therefore has the same size and the same line/column
+geometry as the source, so a position in the source _is_ the position in the virtual document.
+No mapping table and no translation layer.
+
+This is deliberately **not** the same shape as the existing `virtualTypeScriptDocument`, which
+compacts code and carries line mappings back to source. Compaction is necessary there because
+the output must be valid TypeScript. HTML has no such requirement, so the simpler
+offset-preserving form applies, and the class of off-by-one bugs that mapping tables produce
+does not arise.
+
+**The load-bearing invariant:** `virtualHtmlDocument(doc).text.length === doc.text.length`, with
+newlines at identical offsets. If this breaks, every feature reports positions off by some
+amount rather than failing loudly.
+
+### Region detection
+
+Region detection is a tolerant scanner, **not** the `@wrnexus/syntax` parser. Completion fires
+while the document is being typed, which is exactly when it does not parse. The scanner finds
+`view` followed by `{` and tracks brace depth to the matching close.
+
+Two hazards it must handle, both of which defeat a naive implementation:
+
+- **Apostrophes in text content.** `<p>it's fine</p>` — a scanner treating `'` as a string
+  delimiter anywhere will consider the rest of the file one open string and lose every later
+  region. Quotes are tracked only inside attribute values, never in text nodes.
+- **Nested braces from interpolation.** `class={cond ? "a" : "b"}` and `{{ a: 1 }}` nest, so
+  depth must be counted rather than scanning for the next `}`.
+
+WRNexus-specific syntax (`@click`, `client:visible`, `{expr}`) is **not** blanked. The HTML
+service tolerates unknown attributes, and blanking would cost region fidelity for no gain.
+
+**Caching** is keyed on document URI and version, so a burst of requests from one keystroke
+costs a single scan.
+
+## Completion
+
+### The server becomes the single authority inside view blocks
+
+`textDocument/completion` gains a context check: a position is "in HTML" exactly when the
+virtual document is non-blank there, which costs one character lookup.
+
+**Inside a view block**, one list is assembled from two sources:
+
+| Source  | `sortText` prefix | Content                                                                  |
+| ------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| WRNexus | `0`               | Components, their props/outputs/slots, directives (`@click`, `client:*`) |
+| HTML    | `1`               | Tags, attributes, attribute values                                       |
+
+`sortText` drives ordering independently of the label, so components rank above HTML tags
+without filtering anything out. **Outside a view block**, behaviour is unchanged: WRN keywords
+plus workspace items.
+
+The server already indexes components, props, outputs, and slots
+(`buildWorkspaceCompletionItems` in `packages/language-server/src/workspace.ts`), so both halves
+of the merge are already available to it.
+
+**Deduplication on exact label match, WRNexus wins.** A component named `Table` and the HTML
+`table` differ in case and both survive; a component that genuinely shadows an HTML tag name
+resolves to the component.
+
+### Trigger characters
+
+The server currently declares `["<", "@", ":", "."]`. Attributes and values additionally need
+`" "`, `"="`, `"\""`, and `"/"`.
+
+### This fixes an existing bug
+
+The extension's `completion.js` registers its own provider with `<` among its trigger
+characters, and the language server answers `textDocument/completion` as well. VS Code
+concatenates both today, producing duplicate entries and unpredictable ordering before HTML is
+involved at all.
+
+As part of this work the extension's provider returns nothing when the position is inside a view
+block, and keeps its current behaviour elsewhere. One owner per context.
+
+**Consequence to accept knowingly:** the server becomes authoritative for the richest completion
+context, so future component-intelligence work belongs in the server rather than in
+`completion.js`.
+
+## Hover
+
+`textDocument/hover` answers from the HTML service over the virtual document when the position
+is inside a view region, giving MDN documentation for tags and attributes. Outside a view
+region, existing hover behaviour is unchanged.
+
+Where a position resolves to a WRNexus component or prop, the component's own detail wins over
+any HTML entry of the same name, matching the completion precedence rule above.
+
+## Tag handling
+
+### Linked editing is standard LSP
+
+Renaming `<div>` and having `</div>` follow is `textDocument/linkedEditingRange` (LSP 3.16), so
+it lives in the shared server like everything else.
+
+### Auto-close on type is the one client-side piece
+
+LSP has no request for "close this tag as I type". VS Code's own HTML extension implements it
+client-side, and this follows the same shape:
+
+1. The extension subscribes to `onDidChangeTextDocument`, filtered to `wrn` documents.
+2. When the typed character is `>` or `/`, it sends a custom request, `wrn/tagComplete`.
+3. The server runs the HTML service's `doTagComplete` against the virtual document and returns a
+   snippet or `null`.
+4. The client inserts it with `insertSnippet`, so the cursor lands between the tags.
+
+The decision stays server-side because it needs parse knowledge: void elements (`<br>`, `<img>`,
+`<input>`) must not be closed, and an already-closed tag must not be closed twice. Returning
+`null` outside a view region is what stops it firing inside `functions { }` or `style { }`.
+
+Component tags come along for free: `<Card>` closes to `</Card>` because the HTML service closes
+unknown tags like any other, and `<Card /` completes to `<Card />` through the same `/` path.
+
+**New setting:** `wrnexus.html.autoClosingTags`, default `true`, following the existing
+`wrnexus.*` naming.
+
+### Emmet
+
+A manifest change: `emmet.includeLanguages: { "wrn": "html" }` in `contributes.configurationDefaults`.
+
+**Known limitation:** `emmet.includeLanguages` is per-language, not per-region, so Emmet is also
+live inside `functions { }` and `style { }` blocks. VS Code offers no way to scope it to a
+region. Emmet only expands on Tab against an abbreviation pattern, so misfires are rare, but the
+edge is real.
+
+## Folding
+
+`textDocument/foldingRange` in the server returns tag-level ranges from the HTML service over
+the virtual document, filtered to view regions.
+
+Today folding comes only from `language-configuration.json` markers, which work at block level
+(`page`, `component`, `view`, braces). Markup does not fold, so a long `<table>` cannot be
+collapsed. VS Code merges marker-based folding with provider ranges, so block folding continues
+to work unchanged and tag folding appears inside markup.
+
+**One rule:** return ranges only where the virtual document is non-blank. A range spanning
+outside a view region would let a fold swallow a brace boundary.
+
+## Formatting is deliberately excluded
+
+`formatWrn` (`packages/syntax/src/formatter.ts`) is 927 lines, iterates to a fixed point with
+cycle detection, and already handles tags, attribute wrapping, `multilineAttributes`, and
+`printWidth`. It is a markup formatter that understands WRNexus syntax.
+
+Adding HTML formatting would do two harmful things:
+
+- **Two formatters would fight.** Output would depend on which ran last.
+- **It would mangle syntax it does not model.** `@click={handler}` and `client:visible` are not
+  HTML attributes, and an HTML formatter is free to rewrite spacing inside them.
+
+If markup formatting is unsatisfying, the fix is improving `formatWrn`. That is separate work.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+`vscode-html-languageservice` becomes a dependency of **both** `packages/language-server` and
+`editors/vscode`.
+
+The editor bundler (`scripts/build-editor-language-server.mjs`) bundles only workspace sources
+and passes other `require`s through to Node, so the package must be resolvable at runtime from
+the extension. `editors/vscode` currently ships exactly one runtime dependency
+(`vscode-languageclient`); this adds the second.
+
+`check:editor-language-server` already verifies the bundled `.cjs` starts under Node, so a
+missing or unresolvable dependency fails the gate rather than shipping a broken VSIX.
+
+## Testing
+
+### Region scanner (`packages/language-server/test/`)
+
+- **The invariant**, property-style across fixtures: virtual text length equals source length and
+  newlines sit at identical offsets.
+- **Apostrophes in text**: `<p>it's fine</p>` followed by a second view block — both regions
+  found.
+- **Nested interpolation**: `class={cond ? "a" : "b"}` and `{{ a: 1 }}` do not end the region.
+- **Broken markup**: `<div class="` mid-typing still yields a region. This is the normal case for
+  completion, not an edge case.
+- **Multiple view blocks**, and files with none.
+
+### Completion
+
+- Inside a view block: both sources present, WRNexus `sortText` ordering first.
+- Outside a view block: response identical to current behaviour — the guard proving non-markup
+  contexts are undisturbed.
+- Collision: a component named `Table` yields one entry, the component.
+
+### Tag handling
+
+- `<div>` → `</div>`; `<br>` → nothing; `<Card /` → `/>`; outside a view region → `null`.
+- Linked editing returns ranges covering both the opening and closing tag names.
+
+### Hover
+
+- Inside a view region, a known tag returns HTML documentation.
+- A component name returns the component detail, not an HTML entry of the same name.
+
+### Folding
+
+- Every returned range lies inside a view region.
+- Block-level marker folding still works.
+
+### Toolchain guards
+
+- `check:editor-language-server` passes with the new dependency (bundle starts under Node).
+- Manifest assertion that `emmet.includeLanguages` maps `wrn` → `html`, alongside the existing
+  marketplace checks in `editors/vscode/test`.
+
+## Deferred
+
+- HTML formatting — see above; improve `formatWrn` instead.
+- Moving the remaining `completion.js` component intelligence into the server. This design only
+  requires it to stand down inside view blocks; relocating the rest is follow-up work.

docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-19-typed-api-block-design.md

@@ -0,0 +1,276 @@
+# Typed, callable `api` blocks for `.wrn` files — Design
+
+**Date:** 2026-08-19
+**Status:** Approved for implementation
+**Scope:** A sectioned `api` block that declares a typed request, transforms the response, and
+handles failure — callable on demand from client code.
+
+## Goal
+
+Calling this application's own API routes from a `.wrn` page should be declarative and
+type-checked. Today it is neither: the `api` block takes no parameters at all, so anything
+carrying a value from the page is written as a hand-rolled `fetch` — query-string assembly,
+JSON headers, CSRF, status checks, and a `try/catch` repeated at every call site.
+
+### What the current block cannot do
+
+These are implementation facts, not gaps in documentation:
+
+- **No query string.** `isSafeApiPath` (`packages/dev-server/src/runtime.ts`) rejects any path
+  containing `?` or `#`.
+- **No interpolation.** `readPath()` reads until whitespace or `{`, so `/api/users?name={filter}`
+  ends the path at the brace and the remainder is parsed as the block body.
+- **No request body.** The caller builds `new Request(apiUrl, { method, headers })` — there is no
+  parameter a payload could occupy, whatever method is named.
+- **Fetch-once.** `setupCsrFetch` sets an `__wrnexusCsrFetch` flag and returns early on any later
+  pass, so a binding cannot be re-run.
+
+### Non-goals
+
+- External or third-party APIs. Targets are restricted to this app's `/api/*` routes, preserving
+  the existing `isSafeApiPath` guarantee.
+- Replacing `server function`. That remains the way to run arbitrary server logic over RPC.
+- Author-settable headers. See "Why `headers` is excluded".
+- Parameterised server-render fetching. See "The SSR boundary".
+
+## Decisions
+
+| Question         | Decision                                                                 |
+| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| Trigger          | `client {}` blocks are callable on demand; `ssr {}` stays render-time    |
+| Targets          | This app's `/api/*` routes only                                          |
+| Execution        | Decided by the enclosing mode, not a modifier                            |
+| Request values   | Declared fields, supplied at the call site                               |
+| Type source      | Route contract when available, declared types otherwise (with a warning) |
+| Type enforcement | `tsc`, via assertions generated into `wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts`   |
+| Failure          | `error {}` converts a failure to a value; without it, the call rejects   |
+
+## Syntax
+
+```wrn
+client {
+  api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+    request {
+      body {
+        name?: string
+        age?: number
+        designation?: string
+      }
+    }
+
+    response {
+      return data.users
+    }
+
+    error {
+      return []
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Called as `const users = await api.searchUsers({ name: nameFilter.trim() })`. The `api` namespace
+joins those already in client scope (`server`, `output`, `props`, `refs`), so it reads the same way
+as `server.searchUsers()`.
+
+`GET` blocks declare `parameters` rather than `body`; the compiler appends them as a query string at
+call time. The path in source stays a plain literal, so `isSafeApiPath` is satisfied without
+relaxing it.
+
+### Backward compatibility
+
+A bare body keeps meaning "this is the response block", unchanged:
+
+```wrn
+ssr {
+  api ssrUsers GET /api/users/ssr {
+    return users.map((user) => user.name).join(", ")
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The rule is **bare body = legacy untyped block; sections = typed block.**
+
+The two forms reach the payload differently, and the reason is load-bearing rather than cosmetic.
+The legacy form injects the response with `with ($data ?? {})`, which is why bare `users` resolves.
+**`with` is untypeable** — TypeScript cannot see through it — so a typed `response` block is
+impossible in that form. Sectioned blocks therefore bind the payload to `data`, specifically so
+`tsc` can check `data.users` against the route's contract.
+
+### Why `headers` is excluded
+
+Own-route calls are same-origin, so cookies are already attached; `content-type` and `accept` follow
+from whether the block has a body; and CSRF is attached by the runtime (below). What remains for an
+author to set is mostly credentials, which do not belong in page source. Excluded from v1 pending a
+concrete case.
+
+## Type safety
+
+### The constraint that shapes this
+
+`examples/basic-app/tsconfig.json` uses `include: ["app"]` and excludes `.wrnexus-*`, and
+`wrnexus build` never invokes `tsc`. **Generated build artifacts are not type-checked.** Compiling
+the block into a typed client and expecting `tsc` to catch mismatches would therefore check nothing.
+
+What _is_ type-checked is application source under `app/`. Enforcement goes there.
+
+**Corrected 2026-08-19, during implementation.** This section originally placed the assertions in
+`app/types/wrnexus.generated.d.ts`. That is inert: the root `tsconfig.json` sets
+`skipLibCheck: true`, which exempts the _contents_ of every `.d.ts`, so an assertion written there
+can never raise a `tsc` error. Proven by forcing `skipLibCheck: false`, under which the same
+assertion fires as `TS2344`. The reasoning was right and the file was wrong. Per-block assertions
+are emitted into a real `.ts` file instead — `app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts` — which
+`skipLibCheck` does not exempt and which `include: ["app"]` compiles. The helper types stay in the
+`.d.ts`, where being declarations is correct.
+
+### Three pieces
+
+**1. Helper types**, extending what the generator already emits (`ApiRoute`, `ApiContracts`,
+`ApiContract`):
+
+```ts
+type AssertAssignable<Actual, Expected> = Actual extends Expected ? true : never;
+type ApiInput<P extends ApiRoute, M> = ApiContracts[P][M]["input"];
+type ApiOutput<P extends ApiRoute, M> = ApiContracts[P][M]["output"];
+```
+
+**2. Per-block assertions**, generated into `app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts`. `wrnexus generate types` already parses
+`.wrn` sources to build the route list, so it can read each block's declared fields and emit:
+
+```ts
+type __wrn_check_searchUsers = AssertAssignable<
+  { name?: string; age?: number },
+  ApiInput<"/api/users", "POST">
+>;
+```
+
+This is what makes the safety real. It sits in a file the project's own `tsc` already compiles, so
+`bun run typecheck` fails when a block sends a field the endpoint rejects. No bespoke type
+comparison inside the WRNexus compiler, and no need to type-check build output. The language server
+already runs TypeScript diagnostics on `.wrn` documents, so the same error appears inline.
+
+**3. A generic runtime**, `callApi(path, method, input)`, typed by those contracts, so the fetch,
+JSON handling, and failure branch live in one tested place instead of being re-emitted per block.
+
+### Routes without a contract
+
+A plain handler returning `Response.json` has no `defineEndpoint` contract, so `ApiInput` resolves
+to `unknown`. The block's declared types are used directly and the generator emits a warning naming
+the route. Untyped endpoints stay visible rather than silently passing.
+
+### GET parameters travel as strings
+
+A `GET` block's `parameters` become a query string (see Request assembly below), and every
+`URLSearchParams` value is text on the wire regardless of the declared field type — a block
+declaring `age?: number` still sends and receives `"30"`, not `30`. The declared type is honest
+only because the endpoint's own schema coerces it back: `checkField` in
+`packages/validation/src/index.ts` calls `Number(pre)` for every `v.number()` field — optional or
+required — before the handler ever sees it, so `defineEndpoint({ input: v.object({ age:
+v.number() }) })` invoked as `?age=30` hands the handler an actual `number` (verified end to end;
+regression-tested in `packages/core/test/endpoint-schema.test.ts`, "a GET request coerces a
+v.number() query param to an actual number"). This is a property of the endpoint's schema, not of
+the `api` block or the generated contract types — a route that reads `ctx.url.searchParams`
+directly, with no `defineEndpoint` schema, receives raw strings and gets no coercion, but that
+route also has no contract for the generator to check against, so it already falls under "Routes
+without a contract" above and is flagged there.
+
+### Staleness
+
+Checking is only as current as the generated file, so this stays wired into the existing
+`check:generated-types` gate, which already verifies those artifacts match their sources.
+
+## Compilation and runtime
+
+### Client mode
+
+Each `client { api name ... }` becomes an entry on an `api` namespace in the generated browser
+module, beside the existing `__wrnexusClientFunctions`, with `const api = context.api` added to
+client scope exactly as `server` is today.
+
+Declared field types are **type-only**. The generator uses them for the `.d.ts` assertions and
+codegen drops them before emit. A client function body that carried TypeScript into a `.mjs`
+artifact is a bug this repository has already shipped once (fixed 2026-08-19, `55fed217`); the same
+discipline applies here.
+
+`setupCsrFetch` is untouched. Callable blocks are a separate mechanism, so the existing render-time
+binding needs no rework.
+
+### Request assembly
+
+`callApi` builds the request:
+
+- **GET** — declared `parameters` become a query string; `undefined` fields are omitted, which
+  removes the `if (filter.trim())` ladder authors write by hand.
+- **Everything else** — a JSON body with `content-type: application/json`.
+- Always `credentials: "same-origin"` and `accept: application/json`.
+- **Non-GET requests attach `x-csrf-token`**, read from the `wrn-csrf` cookie or the
+  `wrnexus-csrf` meta tag, reusing the logic already at `packages/csr/src/reactive-runtime.ts:4221`
+  for RPC. Hand-written `fetch` calls in application code generally omit this, so it is a
+  correctness gain rather than only less typing.
+
+### Failure
+
+**`error {}` converts a failure into a value; without it, the call rejects.**
+
+- 2xx — the JSON is parsed and bound as `data`, `response {}` runs, and its return value is the
+  call's result. With no `response` block, `data` is returned unchanged.
+- Non-2xx, network failure, or an unparseable body — `error {}` runs with `status`, `message`, and
+  `data` in scope. `return []` yields an empty list and no exception.
+- No `error {}` block — the promise rejects, so `try/catch` at the call site keeps working.
+
+A block must never quietly return `undefined` on failure. Success-shaped failure is the defect class
+this design is most concerned with, so the absence of an `error` block means throw, never swallow.
+
+### The SSR boundary
+
+`ssr {}` blocks accept `response {}` and `error {}`, but **not** `request {}`. There is no caller at
+render time to supply arguments, and inferring an implicit source — page state, query parameters —
+would be a guess. Parameterised requests are a client-mode feature; parameterised server-side
+fetching stays with `server function`.
+
+## Testing
+
+### Parser (`packages/syntax/test/`)
+
+- A sectioned block parses into `request`/`response`/`error` parts.
+- A bare body still parses as the response block (the backward-compatibility guarantee).
+- `request` inside an `ssr {}` block is a parse error naming the restriction.
+- A malformed section reports the offending offset rather than failing later in codegen.
+
+### Type generation (`packages/cli/test/` or the types generator's suite)
+
+- A block targeting a `defineEndpoint` route emits an assertion referencing that contract.
+- A field the endpoint does not accept makes `bun run typecheck` fail — asserted by running `tsc`
+  over a fixture, not by string-matching the generated file.
+- A block targeting a contract-less route emits the warning and falls back to declared types.
+- `check:generated-types` still passes with blocks present.
+
+### Codegen (`packages/compiler/test/`)
+
+- A client-mode block emits an `api` namespace entry and valid JavaScript — no TypeScript survives
+  into the browser module (the guard for the `55fed217` defect class).
+- Declared types do not appear in the emitted module.
+- An `ssr` block's output is unchanged from today for a bare body.
+
+### Runtime (`packages/csr/test/`)
+
+- GET omits `undefined` parameters and includes the rest.
+- Non-GET attaches `x-csrf-token` from cookie and from meta.
+- 2xx runs `response`; its return value is the result.
+- Non-2xx runs `error`; its return value is the result.
+- With no `error` block, a non-2xx rejects rather than resolving to `undefined`.
+
+### End to end (`examples/basic-app`)
+
+A page calling a typed block against a real route, driven in a browser: the request carries the
+declared fields, the response block's value reaches page state, and a deliberately failing call
+takes the `error` path. Tests that pass while the feature does not work have been a recurring
+failure in this repository, so browser verification is part of the definition of done.
+
+## Deferred
+
+- External and third-party API targets, with the allowlist and credential handling they require.
+- Author-settable request headers.
+- Re-runnable `ssr` bindings — `setupCsrFetch`'s fetch-once guard stays as it is.
+- Parameterised server-render fetching.
+- Response caching and request de-duplication.

editors/vscode/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.8.8
+
+- Added HTML tag and attribute completions inside WRN `view` blocks, while preserving WRNexus
+  component completion priority and suppressing HTML suggestions outside markup regions.
+- Added HTML hover documentation, folding ranges, linked tag editing, and automatic closing tags.
+- Added Emmet expansion support for WRN documents and kept void elements from receiving closing tags.
+- Hardened completion and auto-close handling against quoted attribute values, replaced selections,
+  stale asynchronous edits, and duplicate client-side suggestions.
+
 ## 0.8.3
 
 - Rebuilt the embedded WRN compiler with the 0.8.3 SSR, computed-value, Async-scope, and typed loop-prop fixes.
@@ -16,8 +25,8 @@
 - Kept component prop/event intelligence active while the shared language server is enabled.
 - Suppressed unavailable TypeScript standard-library and unmapped virtual-document implementation
   diagnostics in packaged extension environments.
-- Fixed false `unknown`/index-access diagnostics in valid dynamic event forwarding handlers such as
+- Fixed false `unknown`/index-access diagnostics in valid dynamic event forwarding handlers that
-  `output[type](payload)` by preserving JavaScript semantics for omitted parameter types.
+  dispatch a payload by event type, preserving JavaScript semantics for omitted parameter types.
 - Resolved TypeScript standard libraries from the active workspace so semantic diagnostics run
   consistently in the repository and extension development environment.
 

editors/vscode/package.json

@@ -134,6 +134,11 @@
           "maximum": 240,
           "scope": "resource",
           "description": "Preferred WRNexus formatter line width before long tags are expanded."
+        },
+        "wrnexus.html.autoClosingTags": {
+          "type": "boolean",
+          "default": true,
+          "description": "Automatically close HTML tags inside .wrn view blocks."
         }
       }
     },
@@ -141,6 +146,9 @@
       "files.associations": {
         "*.wrn": "wrn"
       },
+      "emmet.includeLanguages": {
+        "wrn": "html"
+      },
       "[wrn]": {
         "editor.defaultFormatter": "wrnexus.wrnexus",
         "editor.formatOnSave": false,
@@ -276,13 +284,14 @@
     "check": "bun run build && bun run test && bun run validate",
     "vscode:prepublish": "bun run check",
     "package": "vsce package --no-dependencies --no-rewrite-relative-links",
-    "publish": "vsce publish --no-dependencies --no-rewrite-relative-links",
+    "publish": "vsce publish --no-dependencies",
-    "publish:azure": "vsce publish --no-dependencies --no-rewrite-relative-links --azure-credential"
+    "publish:azure": "vsce publish --no-dependencies --azure-credential"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@vscode/vsce": "^3.9.2"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "vscode-languageclient": "^10.1.0"
+    "vscode-languageclient": "^10.1.0",
+    "vscode-html-languageservice": "^5.6.2"
   }
 }

editors/vscode/src/auto-close-tags.js

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+"use strict";
+
+const vscode = require("vscode");
+
+/**
+ * Auto-close tags as they are typed.
+ *
+ * LSP has no request for this, so the client watches document changes and asks
+ * the server whether the tag should close. The server owns the decision because
+ * void elements and already-closed tags must not be closed.
+ */
+function registerAutoCloseTags(context, client) {
+  const listener = vscode.workspace.onDidChangeTextDocument(async (event) => {
+    if (event.document.languageId !== "wrn") return;
+    if (!vscode.workspace.getConfiguration("wrnexus.html").get("autoClosingTags", true)) return;
+
+    const changes = event.contentChanges;
+    if (!changes.length) return;
+
+    const typed = changes[0].text;
+    if (typed !== ">" && typed !== "/") return;
+    // Every cursor must have typed the same trigger. A replaced selection
+    // (overtype, or select-and-type) is declined rather than guessed at.
+    if (!changes.every((change) => change.text === typed && change.rangeLength === 0)) return;
+
+    const editor = vscode.window.activeTextEditor;
+    if (!editor || editor.document !== event.document) return;
+
+    /*
+     * Positions come from the editor's selections, not from the changes.
+     *
+     * A change's `range` is in coordinates from before the whole event, so with
+     * several cursors on one line every range after the first is short by the
+     * insertions preceding it. The selections have already been adjusted for
+     * the edit, so they are where the carets actually are.
+     */
+    const positions = editor.selections.map((selection) => selection.active);
+    if (positions.length !== changes.length) return;
+    if (!editor.selections.every((selection) => selection.isEmpty)) return;
+
+    const documentVersion = event.document.version;
+    const snippets = await Promise.all(
+      positions.map((position) =>
+        client.sendRequest("wrn/tagComplete", {
+          textDocument: { uri: event.document.uri.toString() },
+          position: { line: position.line, character: position.character },
+        }),
+      ),
+    );
+
+    if (!snippets.every((snippet) => typeof snippet === "string" && snippet)) return;
+    /*
+     * One insertSnippet call carries one snippet, and it is the only form that
+     * keeps every caret: inserting sequentially would collapse the selection to
+     * the first snippet and invalidate the remaining positions. Cursors that
+     * want different closing tags are therefore declined rather than
+     * half-applied -- multi-cursor editing of matching lines, which is what
+     * this is for, produces one snippet for all of them.
+     */
+    if (!snippets.every((snippet) => snippet === snippets[0])) return;
+
+    // The user may have kept typing during the round-trip; re-validate everything the
+    // insertion depends on before touching the document, since a stale offset would
+    // silently corrupt it.
+    if (vscode.window.activeTextEditor !== editor) return;
+    if (editor.document !== event.document) return;
+    if (editor.document.version !== documentVersion) return;
+    if (editor.selections.length !== positions.length) return;
+    if (
+      !editor.selections.every(
+        (selection, index) => selection.isEmpty && selection.active.isEqual(positions[index]),
+      )
+    ) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    await editor.insertSnippet(new vscode.SnippetString(snippets[0]), positions);
+  });
+
+  context.subscriptions.push(listener);
+}
+
+module.exports = { registerAutoCloseTags };

editors/vscode/src/compiler.cjs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 "use strict";
 // Generated by scripts/build-editor-compiler.mjs. Do not edit directly.
-// WRN editor compiler source hash: fd183ab8c54df72c779d099d7625ce0068e49bea458052335c77cbf31ccf9179
+// WRN editor compiler source hash: b0e3094d8c2a70ee2b34fe961c186b58de9527aa072ca12292b715d3d5f51c87
 // WRN editor compiler generator hash: a54ca847c758bc98d8e353ad6d70088df31de1820f6cf9d1c3462505f563e6b8
 // Generated with TypeScript: 6.0.3
 const __nodeRequire = require;
@@ -285,6 +285,34 @@ function analyzeRuntimeRequirements(ast, options = {}) {
     };
 }
 
+},
+"packages/compiler/src/browser-transpile.ts": function (module, exports, require, __filename, __dirname) {
+"use strict";
+/**
+ * Strip TypeScript from a generated browser module.
+ *
+ * A client function's body is emitted verbatim, so anything TypeScript-only
+ * inside one -- an annotated local, an `as` cast, a local interface -- reaches
+ * the browser module as TypeScript source. Codegen removes the types from the
+ * function's *signature*, which is what made this easy to miss: the emitted
+ * module looked transpiled, and only bodies carried types through.
+ *
+ * The artifact is written as `.mjs` and read back as plain JavaScript, so the
+ * failure surfaced as a syntax error pointing at generated code rather than at
+ * the `.wrn` line responsible.
+ */
+Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
+exports.stripBrowserTypes = stripBrowserTypes;
+let transpiler = null;
+function stripBrowserTypes(code) {
+    const bun = globalThis.Bun;
+    if (!bun?.Transpiler) {
+        throw new Error("WRN-CLIENT-TS: emitting a browser module needs the Bun transpiler to remove TypeScript from client function bodies.");
+    }
+    transpiler ??= new bun.Transpiler({ loader: "ts", target: "browser" });
+    return transpiler.transformSync(code);
+}
+
 },
 "packages/compiler/src/cache.ts": function (module, exports, require, __filename, __dirname) {
 "use strict";
@@ -483,6 +511,7 @@ const RUNTIME_BINDINGS = new Set([
     "server",
     "props",
     "refs",
+    "api",
     "event",
     "payload",
 ]);
@@ -683,6 +712,27 @@ function _functionEntry(ast, fn, availableFunctions) {
     }
   }`;
 }
+/**
+ * Client-mode api blocks become members of an `api` object in client scope.
+ *
+ * Only the response and error bodies are emitted; the declared field types are
+ * type-only and are consumed by the types generator instead. Anything
+ * TypeScript reaching this module would be a syntax error in the .mjs artifact.
+ */
+function apiBindings(ast) {
+    const members = ast.dataApis
+        .filter((block) => block.mode === "client" && block.sections)
+        .map((block) => {
+        const sections = block.sections;
+        const response = (0, syntax_1.eraseFunctionTypes)(sections.response).trim() || "return data;";
+        const error = (0, syntax_1.eraseFunctionTypes)(sections.error).trim();
+        const failure = error
+            ? `(error) => { const status = error.status; const message = error.message; const data = error.data; ${error} }`
+            : `(error) => { throw error; }`;
+        return `    ${JSON.stringify(block.name)}: async (input) => context.callApi(${JSON.stringify(block.path)}, ${JSON.stringify(block.method)}, input).then((data) => { ${response} }, ${failure})`;
+    });
+    return members.length ? `const api = {\n${members.join(",\n")}\n  };` : "";
+}
 function generateBrowserModule(ast) {
     const functions = ast.runtimeFunctions.filter((fn) => ["legacy", "client", "shared"].includes(fn.runtime));
     const functionNames = functions.map((fn) => fn.name);
@@ -690,10 +740,19 @@ function generateBrowserModule(ast) {
     const selectedImports = selectedBrowserImports(ast, functions);
     const imports = selectedImports.map((entry) => entry.code).join("\n");
     const importedBindings = [...new Set(selectedImports.flatMap((entry) => entry.bindings))];
-    const sharedState = state.filter((name) => safeIdentifier(name) && !RUNTIME_BINDINGS.has(name));
+    // `api` is only defined as a client-scope binding when the page actually has
+    // client-mode api blocks (see apiBindings below). A page that declares
+    // `state api` without any client api blocks must keep reading/writing that
+    // state as before, so only exclude the "api" name from destructuring when
+    // there is a real `api` binding to shadow it.
+    const hasClientApi = ast.dataApis.some((block) => block.mode === "client" && block.sections);
+    const localRuntimeBindings = hasClientApi
+        ? RUNTIME_BINDINGS
+        : new Set([...RUNTIME_BINDINGS].filter((name) => name !== "api"));
+    const sharedState = state.filter((name) => safeIdentifier(name) && !localRuntimeBindings.has(name));
     const sharedProps = ast.props
         .map((entry) => entry.name)
-        .filter((name) => safeIdentifier(name) && !RUNTIME_BINDINGS.has(name) && !sharedState.includes(name));
+        .filter((name) => safeIdentifier(name) && !localRuntimeBindings.has(name) && !sharedState.includes(name));
     const callableAliases = functionNames.filter((name) => safeIdentifier(name) &&
         !RUNTIME_BINDINGS.has(name) &&
         !sharedState.includes(name) &&
@@ -730,6 +789,7 @@ function __wrnexusCreateClientFunctions(context) {
   const server = context.server;
   const props = context.props;
   const refs = context.refs;
+  ${apiBindings(ast)}
   const __wrnexusCommit = () => { ${sharedCommit} };
   const __wrnexusRestore = () => { ${sharedRestore} };
   ${!hasAuthoredCommit ? "const commit = __wrnexusCommit;" : ""}
@@ -1261,7 +1321,21 @@ function renderNode(node, ssrBindings, csrBindings, apiBindings, loops, reactive
     // templateEscape, swapped for its real `${…}` code after escaping.
     if (node.type === "each" || node.type === "if") {
         loops.push(node.type === "each" ? compileEachExpr(node) : compileIfExpr(node));
-        return `\x00WRNEACH${loops.length - 1}\x00`;
+        const definition = node.type === "each"
+            ? {
+                list: node.list,
+                item: node.item,
+                index: node.index,
+                key: node.key,
+                body: renderClientControlTemplate(node.body),
+                empty: renderClientControlTemplate(node.empty),
+            }
+            : node.branches.map((branch) => ({
+                cond: branch.cond,
+                body: renderClientControlTemplate(branch.body),
+            }));
+        const attribute = node.type === "each" ? "data-wrn-each" : "data-wrn-if";
+        return `<template ${attribute}="${encodeClientControl(definition)}"></template>\x00WRNEACH${loops.length - 1}\x00<template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
     }
     if (node.tag === "Static" || node.tag === "Dynamic") {
         const inner = node.children
@@ -1447,6 +1521,7 @@ function renderBinding(binding) {
         path: binding.path,
         body: binding.body,
         helpers: binding.helpers,
+        ...(binding.errorBody ? { errorBody: binding.errorBody } : {}),
     };
 }
 function hasClientBehavior(nodes) {
@@ -1503,18 +1578,28 @@ function apiBindingMap(ast, sharedHelpers) {
         if (bindings.has(block.name)) {
             throw new Error(`Duplicate .wrn api binding "${block.name}"`);
         }
+        const sectioned = block.sections;
+        const errorSection = sectioned?.error.trim();
         bindings.set(block.name, {
             mode: block.mode,
             method: block.method,
             path: apiRoutePath(block.path),
-            body: dataBody(block.body),
+            // A sectioned block binds the payload to `data`; the legacy form keeps
+            // the `with ($data)` injection, which cannot be typed.
+            body: sectioned
+                ? `const data = $data; ${sectioned.response.trim() || "return data;"}`
+                : dataBody(block.body),
+            // Only a sectioned block with a non-empty `error {}` gets a fallback —
+            // legacy blocks and sectioned blocks without `error` keep failures
+            // propagating exactly as before.
+            ...(errorSection ? { errorBody: errorSection } : {}),
             helpers: modeHelpers(ast, block.mode, sharedHelpers),
         });
     }
     return bindings;
 }
 function ssrRuntimeSource() {
-    return `const __wrnexusHtmlEscapes = { "&": "&amp;", "<": "&lt;", ">": "&gt;", "\\"": "&quot;", "'": "&#39;" };
+    return `const __wrnexusHtmlEscapes: Record<string, string> = { "&": "&amp;", "<": "&lt;", ">": "&gt;", "\\"": "&quot;", "'": "&#39;" };
 function __wrnexusEscapeHtml(value: unknown): string {
   return String(value).replace(/[&<>"']/g, (ch) => __wrnexusHtmlEscapes[ch] ?? ch);
 }
@@ -1533,6 +1618,18 @@ function __wrnexusEvalData(data: unknown, body: string, helpers = "", ctx: __Wrn
   return new Function("$data", "$adapters", "const cookies = $adapters.cookies;\\nconst session = $adapters.session;\\nconst localStorage = $adapters.localStorage;\\nwith ($data ?? {}) {\\n" + helpers + "\\n" + body + "\\n}")(data, adapters);
 }
 
+function __wrnexusEvalError(err: unknown, body: string, helpers = "", ctx: __WrnexusContext): unknown {
+  const adapters = {
+    cookies: ctx.cookies,
+    session: ctx.session,
+    localStorage: ctx.localStorage,
+  };
+  const status = (err as { status?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.status;
+  const data = (err as { data?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.data;
+  const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+  return new Function("$status", "$message", "$data", "$adapters", "const cookies = $adapters.cookies;\\nconst session = $adapters.session;\\nconst localStorage = $adapters.localStorage;\\nconst status = $status;\\nconst message = $message;\\nconst data = $data;\\n" + helpers + "\\n" + body)(status, message, data, adapters);
+}
+
 function __wrnexusPropAttr(
   value: unknown,
 ): string {
@@ -1562,18 +1659,53 @@ async function __wrnexusCallApi(path: string, method: string, ctx: __WrnexusCont
 
   const url = new URL(path, ctx.req.url);
   const res = await fetch(new Request(url, { method, headers: ctx.req.headers }));
+  const type = res.headers.get("content-type") || "";
   if (!res.ok) {
-    throw new Error(".wrn data API request failed with status " + res.status);
+    const data = type.includes("application/json")
+      ? await res.json().catch(() => undefined)
+      : await res.text().catch(() => undefined);
+    throw Object.assign(new Error(".wrn data API request failed with status " + res.status), {
+      status: res.status,
+      data,
+    });
   }
 
-  const type = res.headers.get("content-type") || "";
   return type.includes("application/json") ? await res.json() : await res.text();
 }
 
+type __WrnexusApiCall = {
+  path: string;
+  method: string;
+  body: string;
+  helpers: string;
+  errorBody?: string;
+};
+
+type __WrnexusSsrBinding = __WrnexusApiCall & { marker: string };
+
+// Shared by every ssr api-binding consumption site (marker replacement,
+// #each loop consts, ...) so the narrow try/catch -- only active when the
+// block declared an error section -- cannot drift between call sites.
+async function __wrnexusResolveApiBinding(
+  binding: __WrnexusApiCall,
+  ctx: __WrnexusContext,
+): Promise<unknown> {
+  if (binding.errorBody) {
+    let data: unknown;
+    try {
+      data = await __wrnexusCallApi(binding.path, binding.method, ctx);
+    } catch (err) {
+      return __wrnexusEvalError(err, binding.errorBody, binding.helpers, ctx);
+    }
+    return __wrnexusEvalData(data, binding.body, binding.helpers, ctx);
+  }
+  const data = await __wrnexusCallApi(binding.path, binding.method, ctx);
+  return __wrnexusEvalData(data, binding.body, binding.helpers, ctx);
+}
+
 async function __wrnexusRenderSsrBindings(html: string, ctx: __WrnexusContext): Promise<string> {
   for (const binding of __wrnexusSsrBindings) {
-    const data = await __wrnexusCallApi(binding.path, binding.method, ctx);
+    const value = await __wrnexusResolveApiBinding(binding, ctx);
-    const value = __wrnexusEvalData(data, binding.body, binding.helpers, ctx);
     html = html.replace(binding.marker, __wrnexusEscapeHtml(value));
   }
   return html;
@@ -2004,13 +2136,16 @@ function generateInner(ast) {
                 continue;
             if (!lists.some((expr) => new RegExp(`\\b${name}\\b`).test(expr)))
                 continue;
-            loopConsts.push(`  const ${name} = __wrnexusEvalData(await __wrnexusCallApi(${JSON.stringify(binding.path)}, ${JSON.stringify(binding.method)}, ctx), ${JSON.stringify(binding.body)}, ${JSON.stringify(binding.helpers)}, ctx);`);
+            const errorBodyProp = binding.errorBody
+                ? `, errorBody: ${JSON.stringify(binding.errorBody)}`
+                : "";
+            loopConsts.push(`  const ${name} = await __wrnexusResolveApiBinding({ path: ${JSON.stringify(binding.path)}, method: ${JSON.stringify(binding.method)}, body: ${JSON.stringify(binding.body)}, helpers: ${JSON.stringify(binding.helpers)}${errorBodyProp} }, ctx);`);
         }
     }
     const needsSsrRuntime = ssrBindings.length > 0 || loops.length > 0 || runtimeStateNames.size > 0;
     if (needsSsrRuntime) {
         out.push(ssrRuntimeSource());
-        out.push(`const __wrnexusSsrBindings = ${JSON.stringify(ssrBindings, null, 2)};`);
+        out.push(`const __wrnexusSsrBindings: __WrnexusSsrBinding[] = ${JSON.stringify(ssrBindings, null, 2)};`);
         const decls = loopConsts.length > 0 ? loopConsts.join("\n") + "\n" : "";
         out.push(`export default async function ${ast.name}(ctx: __WrnexusContext) {
         ${storeDeclarations}
@@ -2425,6 +2560,76 @@ function compileAttrValue(raw, ctx) {
     }
     return out + escLit(attrEscape(raw.slice(last)));
 }
+/**
+ * Serialize a control-block body as inert browser-side template markup.
+ * Values deliberately remain as mustaches: the CSR runtime evaluates them
+ * against the component scope (and `{#each}` locals) when it materializes the
+ * template.  The string is base64 encoded before it is placed in HTML.
+ */
+function renderClientControlTemplate(nodes) {
+    const render = (node) => {
+        if (node.type === "text") {
+            return node.value.replace(/\{([^{}]+)\}/g, (whole, rawExpression) => {
+                const expression = rawExpression.trim();
+                return expression.startsWith("t:")
+                    ? `<span data-t="${attrEscape(expression.slice(2).trim())}"></span>`
+                    : `<span data-text="${attrEscape(expression)}">${whole}</span>`;
+            });
+        }
+        if (node.type === "each") {
+            return `<template data-wrn-each="${attrEscape(encodeClientControl({
+                list: node.list,
+                item: node.item,
+                index: node.index,
+                key: node.key,
+                body: renderClientControlTemplate(node.body),
+                empty: renderClientControlTemplate(node.empty),
+            }))}"></template><template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
+        }
+        if (node.type === "if") {
+            return `<template data-wrn-if="${attrEscape(encodeClientControl(node.branches.map((branch) => ({
+                cond: branch.cond,
+                body: renderClientControlTemplate(branch.body),
+            }))))}"></template><template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
+        }
+        const componentTag = isComponentTag(node.tag);
+        let bindIndex = 0;
+        const attrs = node.attrs
+            .map((attribute) => {
+            const name = attribute.event
+                ? componentTag
+                    ? componentEventAttribute(attribute.name)
+                    : eventAttribute(attribute.name)
+                : attribute.name;
+            if (attribute.boolean)
+                return ` ${name}`;
+            if (attribute.name.startsWith("class:")) {
+                const expression = unwrapDirectiveExpression(attribute.value);
+                return ` data-wrn-class-${bindIndex++}="${attrEscape(JSON.stringify([attribute.name.slice("class:".length), expression]))}"`;
+            }
+            if (attribute.name === "data-show") {
+                return ` data-show="${attrEscape(unwrapDirectiveExpression(attribute.value))}"`;
+            }
+            const rendered = ` ${name}="${attrEscape(attribute.value)}"`;
+            return attribute.value.includes("{")
+                ? `${rendered} data-wrn-bind-${bindIndex++}="${attrEscape(JSON.stringify([name, attribute.value]))}"`
+                : rendered;
+        })
+            .join("");
+        const children = node.children.map(render).join("");
+        if (node.tag === "Static")
+            return children;
+        if (componentTag)
+            return `<div data-component="${attrEscape(node.tag)}"${attrs}>${children}</div>`;
+        if (parser_ts_1.VOID_ELEMENTS.has(node.tag.toLowerCase()))
+            return `<${node.tag}${attrs}>`;
+        return `<${node.tag}${attrs}>${children}</${node.tag}>`;
+    };
+    return nodes.map(render).join("");
+}
+function encodeClientControl(value) {
+    return node_buffer_1.Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(value), "utf8").toString("base64");
+}
 function renderComponentIfNode(node, ctx) {
     let expression = "``";
     for (let index = node.branches.length - 1; index >= 0; index--) {
@@ -2436,7 +2641,11 @@ function renderComponentIfNode(node, ctx) {
                 ? bodyExpression
                 : `(${ctx.resolveExpr(branch.cond)}) ? ${bodyExpression} : ${expression}`;
     }
-    return "${" + expression + "}";
+    const definition = encodeClientControl(node.branches.map((branch) => ({
+        cond: branch.cond,
+        body: renderClientControlTemplate(branch.body),
+    })));
+    return `<template data-wrn-if="${definition}"></template>${"${" + expression + "}"}<template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
 }
 function renderComponentEachNode(node, ctx) {
     const item = node.item;
@@ -2448,7 +2657,7 @@ function renderComponentEachNode(node, ctx) {
     };
     const body = node.body.map((child) => renderComponentNode(child, childCtx)).join("");
     const empty = node.empty.map((child) => renderComponentNode(child, ctx)).join("");
-    return ("${(() => { const __wl = Array.isArray(" +
+    const serverBody = "${(() => { const __wl = Array.isArray(" +
         list +
         ") ? (" +
         list +
@@ -2460,7 +2669,16 @@ function renderComponentEachNode(node, ctx) {
         body +
         '`).join("") : `' +
         empty +
-        "`; })()}");
+        "`; })()}";
+    const definition = encodeClientControl({
+        list: node.list,
+        item: node.item,
+        index: node.index,
+        key: node.key,
+        body: renderClientControlTemplate(node.body),
+        empty: renderClientControlTemplate(node.empty),
+    });
+    return `<template data-wrn-each="${definition}"></template>${serverBody}<template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
 }
 function serverLoopLocalsAttribute(ctx) {
     const locals = [...(ctx.serverLocals ?? [])];
@@ -3242,7 +3460,7 @@ function resolveWrnImports(declarations, importer, options) {
  * `@wrnexus/syntax` package. This package owns platform-specific codegen.
  */
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
-exports.routeNeedsIslands = exports.generateIslandEntry = exports.buildIslands = exports.assertReactAvailable = exports.serializeIslandProps = exports.renderIslandMarker = exports.parseIslandStrategy = exports.islandPropValue = exports.islandNamesFrom = exports.DependencyGraph = exports.createCompilationCache = exports.compilationKey = exports.runtimeTypeOf = exports.inferredRuntimeType = exports.eraseFunctionTypes = exports.LexError = exports.Lexer = exports.NativeCompileError = exports.generateNative = exports.runtimeCapabilities = exports.analyzeRuntimeImports = exports.optimizeAst = exports.analyzeRuntimeRequirements = exports.analyzeOptimizations = exports.createWrnSourceMap = exports.resolveWrnImports = exports.resolveWrnImport = exports.createComponentContract = exports.generateStoreModule = exports.generateStoreBrowserModule = exports.generateDeclarations = exports.rpcManifest = exports.generateServerFunctionsModule = exports.generateBrowserModule = exports.generateTargets = exports.generate = exports.ParseError = exports.parse = exports.formatDiagnostic = exports.diagnosticFromError = exports.diagnose = exports.assertValidAst = exports.formatWrn = void 0;
+exports.routeNeedsIslands = exports.generateIslandEntry = exports.buildIslands = exports.assertReactAvailable = exports.serializeIslandProps = exports.renderIslandMarker = exports.parseIslandStrategy = exports.islandPropValue = exports.islandNamesFrom = exports.DependencyGraph = exports.createCompilationCache = exports.compilationKey = exports.runtimeTypeOf = exports.inferredRuntimeType = exports.eraseFunctionTypes = exports.LexError = exports.Lexer = exports.NativeCompileError = exports.generateNative = exports.runtimeCapabilities = exports.analyzeRuntimeImports = exports.optimizeAst = exports.analyzeRuntimeRequirements = exports.analyzeOptimizations = exports.createWrnSourceMap = exports.resolveWrnImports = exports.resolveWrnImport = exports.createComponentContract = exports.generateStoreModule = exports.generateStoreBrowserModule = exports.generateDeclarations = exports.rpcManifest = exports.generateServerFunctionsModule = exports.stripBrowserTypes = exports.generateBrowserModule = exports.generateTargets = exports.generate = exports.ParseError = exports.parse = exports.formatDiagnostic = exports.diagnosticFromError = exports.diagnose = exports.assertValidAst = exports.formatWrn = void 0;
 exports.compileNativeWrnFile = compileNativeWrnFile;
 exports.compileWrnFile = compileWrnFile;
 exports.compile = compile;
@@ -3264,6 +3482,8 @@ var targets_ts_1 = require("./targets.js");
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "generateTargets", { enumerable: true, get: function () { return targets_ts_1.generateTargets; } });
 var client_codegen_ts_1 = require("./client-codegen.js");
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "generateBrowserModule", { enumerable: true, get: function () { return client_codegen_ts_1.generateBrowserModule; } });
+var browser_transpile_ts_1 = require("./browser-transpile.js");
+Object.defineProperty(exports, "stripBrowserTypes", { enumerable: true, get: function () { return browser_transpile_ts_1.stripBrowserTypes; } });
 var server_codegen_ts_1 = require("./server-codegen.js");
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "generateServerFunctionsModule", { enumerable: true, get: function () { return server_codegen_ts_1.generateServerFunctionsModule; } });
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "rpcManifest", { enumerable: true, get: function () { return server_codegen_ts_1.rpcManifest; } });
@@ -4500,6 +4720,151 @@ Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
 /** @deprecated Import language type utilities from @wrnexus/syntax. */
 __exportStar(require("@wrnexus/syntax/types"), exports);
 
+},
+"packages/syntax/src/api-sections.ts": function (module, exports, require, __filename, __dirname) {
+"use strict";
+Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
+exports.parseApiSections = parseApiSections;
+exports.hasRequestSection = hasRequestSection;
+/**
+ * Parse the sectioned form of an `api` block body.
+ *
+ * Returns null when no section keyword is present, which is how the legacy
+ * bare-body form stays valid: the caller keeps treating the body as the
+ * response expression.
+ *
+ * Detection and slicing both drive the tokenizer's own string/comment-aware
+ * scanning (`skipLiteralOrComment`, `Lexer.readBalancedBraces`) instead of a
+ * second hand-rolled brace counter, so a `}` inside a string or a `request {`
+ * mentioned in a comment can't be mistaken for a real section.
+ */
+const tokenizer_ts_1 = require("./tokenizer.js");
+const SECTION_NAMES = ["request", "response", "error"];
+const REQUEST_SUBSECTION_NAMES = ["parameters", "body"];
+/**
+ * Walk `source` at brace-depth 0, looking for `name { ... }` where `name` is
+ * one of `names`. Strings, template literals, and comments are skipped via
+ * `skipLiteralOrComment` — the same rules `readBalancedBraces` uses — so a
+ * keyword mentioned inside a string or comment, or nested inside an unrelated
+ * `{ }` (e.g. an object literal in a legacy body), is never mistaken for a
+ * section. Matched blocks are sliced via `Lexer.readBalancedBraces()` itself,
+ * not a reimplementation of it.
+ */
+function scanTopLevelBlocks(source, names) {
+    const found = new Map();
+    const lx = new tokenizer_ts_1.Lexer(source);
+    let depth = 0;
+    let i = 0;
+    let atLineStart = true;
+    while (i < source.length) {
+        const c = source[i];
+        if (c === "\n") {
+            atLineStart = true;
+            i++;
+            continue;
+        }
+        const skipped = (0, tokenizer_ts_1.skipLiteralOrComment)(source, i, atLineStart);
+        if (skipped !== null) {
+            i = skipped;
+            atLineStart = false;
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (c !== " " && c !== "\t" && c !== "\r")
+            atLineStart = false;
+        if (depth === 0 && (0, tokenizer_ts_1.isIdentStart)(c)) {
+            let j = i + 1;
+            while (j < source.length && (0, tokenizer_ts_1.isIdentPart)(source[j]))
+                j++;
+            const word = source.slice(i, j);
+            // Skip trivia between the identifier and a possible '{' without
+            // treating anything in between as significant yet.
+            let k = j;
+            let lineStartAtK = false;
+            while (k < source.length) {
+                const kc = source[k];
+                if (kc === " " || kc === "\t" || kc === "\r") {
+                    k++;
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if (kc === "\n") {
+                    lineStartAtK = true;
+                    k++;
+                    continue;
+                }
+                const kSkipped = (0, tokenizer_ts_1.skipLiteralOrComment)(source, k, lineStartAtK);
+                if (kSkipped !== null) {
+                    k = kSkipped;
+                    lineStartAtK = false;
+                    continue;
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+            if (names.includes(word) && source[k] === "{") {
+                lx.pos = k;
+                const start = k + 1;
+                const text = lx.readBalancedBraces();
+                if (!found.has(word))
+                    found.set(word, { text, start });
+                i = lx.pos;
+                continue;
+            }
+            i = j;
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (c === "{")
+            depth++;
+        else if (c === "}")
+            depth = Math.max(0, depth - 1);
+        i++;
+    }
+    return found;
+}
+/** Rebase a span captured from `outer.text` back onto the original source. */
+function absolutize(span, outer) {
+    if (!span)
+        return undefined;
+    return outer ? { text: span.text, start: outer.start + span.start } : span;
+}
+/** `name?: string` -> { name, optional, type }. Blank lines and comments are skipped. */
+function parseFields(span) {
+    if (!span)
+        return [];
+    const fields = [];
+    let cursor = 0;
+    for (const rawLine of span.text.split("\n")) {
+        const lineOffset = span.start + cursor;
+        cursor += rawLine.length + 1;
+        const line = rawLine.trim().replace(/,$/, "");
+        if (!line || line.startsWith("//"))
+            continue;
+        const match = /^([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*)(\?)?\s*:\s*(.+)$/.exec(line);
+        if (!match) {
+            throw new tokenizer_ts_1.LexError(`Expected "name: type" in an api request section, got "${line}" at offset ${lineOffset}`);
+        }
+        fields.push({ name: match[1], optional: match[2] === "?", type: match[3].trim() });
+    }
+    return fields;
+}
+function parseApiSections(source) {
+    const top = scanTopLevelBlocks(source, SECTION_NAMES);
+    if (top.size === 0)
+        return null;
+    const request = top.get("request");
+    const sub = request
+        ? scanTopLevelBlocks(request.text, REQUEST_SUBSECTION_NAMES)
+        : new Map();
+    return {
+        parameters: parseFields(absolutize(sub.get("parameters"), request)),
+        body: parseFields(absolutize(sub.get("body"), request)),
+        response: top.get("response")?.text ?? "",
+        error: top.get("error")?.text ?? "",
+    };
+}
+/** True when the block declares a `request` section. */
+function hasRequestSection(source) {
+    return scanTopLevelBlocks(source, SECTION_NAMES).has("request");
+}
+
 },
 "packages/syntax/src/diagnostics.ts": function (module, exports, require, __filename, __dirname) {
 "use strict";
@@ -5848,6 +6213,7 @@ exports.ParseError = exports.VOID_ELEMENTS = void 0;
 exports.parse = parse;
 exports.parseHtmlView = parseHtmlView;
 const spec_ts_1 = require("./spec.js");
+const api_sections_ts_1 = require("./api-sections.js");
 /**
  * Recursive-descent parser for `.wrn`, producing a small AST.
  *
@@ -6320,7 +6686,18 @@ function parse(source) {
                                 const method = expect("ident").value.toUpperCase();
                                 const path = lx.readPath();
                                 const body = lx.readBalancedBraces();
-                                dataApis.push({ mode, name, method, path, body });
+                                const sections = (0, api_sections_ts_1.parseApiSections)(body);
+                                if (sections && mode !== "client" && (0, api_sections_ts_1.hasRequestSection)(body)) {
+                                    throw new ParseError(`An ssr api block cannot declare "request": there is no caller at render time to supply it. Use a client block, or a server function.`);
+                                }
+                                dataApis.push({
+                                    mode,
+                                    name,
+                                    method,
+                                    path,
+                                    body: sections ? "" : body,
+                                    ...(sections ? { sections } : {}),
+                                });
                                 break;
                             }
                             case "functions": {
@@ -6955,13 +7332,55 @@ exports.WRN_DIAGNOSTIC_CODES = {
  * `readToLineEnd()` for the parser to grab raw spans when grammar demands it.
  */
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
-exports.Lexer = exports.LexError = void 0;
+exports.Lexer = exports.isIdentPart = exports.isIdentStart = exports.LexError = void 0;
+exports.skipLiteralOrComment = skipLiteralOrComment;
 class LexError extends Error {
 }
 exports.LexError = LexError;
 const isWs = (c) => c === " " || c === "\t" || c === "\n" || c === "\r";
 const isIdentStart = (c) => /[A-Za-z_]/.test(c);
+exports.isIdentStart = isIdentStart;
 const isIdentPart = (c) => /[A-Za-z0-9_]/.test(c);
+exports.isIdentPart = isIdentPart;
+/**
+ * Skip over a string/template literal or comment starting at `src[i]`, using
+ * the exact rules `readBalancedBraces` needs to stay comment- and
+ * string-aware: `/* block *\/` comments anywhere, `//` line comments only at
+ * the start of a line (so a bare `https://…` in view text isn't mistaken for
+ * one), and `"`, `'`, `` ` `` strings with backslash escapes.
+ *
+ * Returns the index just past what it skipped, or `null` when `src[i]` isn't
+ * the start of one of those. Exported so any other raw-body scanner that
+ * needs to walk `.wrn` source without tripping over strings or comments
+ * (e.g. the `api` section scanner) shares this logic instead of
+ * reimplementing it — a second hand-rolled scanner is how apostrophes in
+ * prose used to swallow braces.
+ */
+function skipLiteralOrComment(src, i, atLineStart) {
+    const c = src[i];
+    if (c === "/" && src[i + 1] === "*") {
+        const close = src.indexOf("*/", i + 2);
+        return close === -1 ? src.length : close + 2;
+    }
+    if (atLineStart && c === "/" && src[i + 1] === "/") {
+        const newline = src.indexOf("\n", i + 2);
+        return newline === -1 ? src.length : newline;
+    }
+    if (c === '"' || c === "'" || c === "`") {
+        let j = i + 1;
+        while (j < src.length) {
+            if (src[j] === "\\") {
+                j += 2;
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (src[j] === c)
+                return j + 1;
+            j++;
+        }
+        return src.length;
+    }
+    return null;
+}
 class Lexer {
     src;
     pos = 0;
@@ -7030,9 +7449,9 @@ class Lexer {
             case "'":
                 return this.readString(c, pos);
         }
-        if (isIdentStart(c)) {
+        if ((0, exports.isIdentStart)(c)) {
             let v = "";
-            while (this.pos < src.length && isIdentPart(src[this.pos]))
+            while (this.pos < src.length && (0, exports.isIdentPart)(src[this.pos]))
                 v += src[this.pos++];
             return { type: "ident", value: v, pos };
         }
@@ -7252,45 +7671,23 @@ class Lexer {
         const start = this.pos + 1;
         let depth = 0;
         let i = this.pos;
-        let str = null;
         /** True while only whitespace has been seen since the last newline. */
         let atLineStart = false;
-        for (; i < src.length; i++) {
+        while (i < src.length) {
             const c = src[i];
-            if (str) {
-                if (c === "\\") {
-                    i++;
-                    continue;
-                }
-                if (c === str)
-                    str = null;
-                continue;
-            }
             if (c === "\n") {
                 atLineStart = true;
+                i++;
                 continue;
             }
-            if (c === "/" && src[i + 1] === "*") {
+            const skipped = skipLiteralOrComment(src, i, atLineStart);
-                const close = src.indexOf("*/", i + 2);
+            if (skipped !== null) {
-                if (close === -1)
+                i = skipped;
-                    break; // unterminated: fall through to the error
-                i = close + 1;
                 atLineStart = false;
                 continue;
             }
-            if (atLineStart && c === "/" && src[i + 1] === "/") {
-                const newline = src.indexOf("\n", i + 2);
-                if (newline === -1)
-                    break;
-                i = newline - 1; // let the loop's own increment land on the newline
-                continue;
-            }
             if (c !== " " && c !== "\t" && c !== "\r")
                 atLineStart = false;
-            if (c === '"' || c === "'" || c === "`") {
-                str = c;
-                continue;
-            }
             if (c === "{")
                 depth++;
             else if (c === "}") {
@@ -7300,6 +7697,7 @@ class Lexer {
                     return src.slice(start, i);
                 }
             }
+            i++;
         }
         throw new LexError(`Unbalanced braces starting at offset ${this.pos}`);
     }

editors/vscode/src/completion.js

@@ -570,6 +570,41 @@ function isInsideWatch(document, position) {
   return depth > 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether an offset sits inside a `view { }` block.
+ *
+ * The language server owns completion there and returns a merged list, so this
+ * provider stands down to avoid VS Code concatenating two independent lists.
+ * Quotes are only tracked inside a tag: `<p>it's</p>` would otherwise open a
+ * string that never closes.
+ */
+function isInsideViewBlock(text, offset) {
+  const pattern = /\bview\s*\{/g;
+  let match;
+  while ((match = pattern.exec(text))) {
+    const start = match.index + match[0].length;
+    let depth = 1;
+    let inTag = false;
+    let quote = null;
+    let index = start;
+    for (; index < text.length && depth > 0; index += 1) {
+      const char = text[index];
+      if (quote) {
+        if (char === quote) quote = null;
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (inTag && (char === '"' || char === "'")) quote = char;
+      else if (char === "<") inTag = true;
+      else if (char === ">") inTag = false;
+      else if (char === "{") depth += 1;
+      else if (char === "}") depth -= 1;
+    }
+    if (offset >= start && offset <= index) return true;
+    pattern.lastIndex = index;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
 function isAfterWatchKeyword(document, position) {
   const linePrefix = document.lineAt(position.line).text.slice(0, position.character);
 
@@ -634,6 +669,8 @@ function addFunctionCompletions(items, document) {
 }
 
 function provideCompletionItems(document, position) {
+  if (isInsideViewBlock(document.getText(), document.offsetAt(position))) return [];
+
   const items = [];
 
   const linePrefix = document.lineAt(position.line).text.slice(0, position.character);
@@ -707,6 +744,7 @@ module.exports = {
   extractProps,
   extractRouteParams,
   extractStates,
+  isInsideViewBlock,
   provideCompletionItems,
   registerCompletionProvider,
 };

editors/vscode/src/extension.bundle.cjs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// WRN editor extension source hash: c9938fa5f643ca435ead2c8dd5b545c6906c37c0024cf3ea788666236c28ddb6
+// WRN editor extension source hash: 548e7e0c27d5c951325c977cc22f2ee0340dc3e34bd896904e519ee357ca37a8
 // WRN editor extension generator hash: 456d1d614e44e5fb1f19b784176c09cf2ade9b64ef73a17934c2698150b62728
 "use strict";
 var __commonJS = (cb, mod) => () => (mod || cb((mod = { exports: {} }).exports, mod), mod.exports);
@@ -22701,10 +22701,63 @@ var require_main5 = __commonJS((exports2) => {
   }
 });
 
+// editors/vscode/src/auto-close-tags.js
+var require_auto_close_tags = __commonJS((exports2, module2) => {
+  var vscode = require("vscode");
+  function registerAutoCloseTags(context, client) {
+    const listener = vscode.workspace.onDidChangeTextDocument(async (event) => {
+      if (event.document.languageId !== "wrn")
+        return;
+      if (!vscode.workspace.getConfiguration("wrnexus.html").get("autoClosingTags", true))
+        return;
+      const changes = event.contentChanges;
+      if (!changes.length)
+        return;
+      const typed = changes[0].text;
+      if (typed !== ">" && typed !== "/")
+        return;
+      if (!changes.every((change) => change.text === typed && change.rangeLength === 0))
+        return;
+      const editor = vscode.window.activeTextEditor;
+      if (!editor || editor.document !== event.document)
+        return;
+      const positions = editor.selections.map((selection) => selection.active);
+      if (positions.length !== changes.length)
+        return;
+      if (!editor.selections.every((selection) => selection.isEmpty))
+        return;
+      const documentVersion = event.document.version;
+      const snippets = await Promise.all(positions.map((position) => client.sendRequest("wrn/tagComplete", {
+        textDocument: { uri: event.document.uri.toString() },
+        position: { line: position.line, character: position.character }
+      })));
+      if (!snippets.every((snippet) => typeof snippet === "string" && snippet))
+        return;
+      if (!snippets.every((snippet) => snippet === snippets[0]))
+        return;
+      if (vscode.window.activeTextEditor !== editor)
+        return;
+      if (editor.document !== event.document)
+        return;
+      if (editor.document.version !== documentVersion)
+        return;
+      if (editor.selections.length !== positions.length)
+        return;
+      if (!editor.selections.every((selection, index) => selection.isEmpty && selection.active.isEqual(positions[index]))) {
+        return;
+      }
+      await editor.insertSnippet(new vscode.SnippetString(snippets[0]), positions);
+    });
+    context.subscriptions.push(listener);
+  }
+  module2.exports = { registerAutoCloseTags };
+});
+
 // editors/vscode/src/extension.js
 var path = require("node:path");
 var vscode = require("vscode");
 var { LanguageClient, TransportKind } = require_main5();
+var { registerAutoCloseTags } = require_auto_close_tags();
 var WRN_LANGUAGE_ID = "wrn";
 var client;
 async function recoverWrnLanguage(document) {
@@ -22730,6 +22783,7 @@ async function activate(context) {
     debug: { module: module2, transport: TransportKind.stdio, options: { execArgv: ["--nolazy"] } }
   }, { documentSelector: [{ scheme: "file", language: WRN_LANGUAGE_ID }] });
   await client.start();
+  registerAutoCloseTags(context, client);
 }
 async function deactivate() {
   const running = client;
@@ -22737,4 +22791,4 @@ async function deactivate() {
   if (running)
     await running.stop();
 }
-module.exports = { activate, deactivate, recoverWrnLanguage };
+module.exports = { activate, deactivate, recoverWrnLanguage, registerAutoCloseTags };

editors/vscode/src/extension.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 const path = require("node:path");
 const vscode = require("vscode");
 const { LanguageClient, TransportKind } = require("vscode-languageclient/node");
+const { registerAutoCloseTags } = require("./auto-close-tags.js");
 
 const WRN_LANGUAGE_ID = "wrn";
 /** @type {LanguageClient | undefined} */
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ async function activate(context) {
     { documentSelector: [{ scheme: "file", language: WRN_LANGUAGE_ID }] },
   );
   await client.start();
+  registerAutoCloseTags(context, client);
 }
 
 async function deactivate() {
@@ -51,4 +53,4 @@ async function deactivate() {
   if (running) await running.stop();
 }
 
-module.exports = { activate, deactivate, recoverWrnLanguage };
+module.exports = { activate, deactivate, recoverWrnLanguage, registerAutoCloseTags };

editors/vscode/test/auto-close-tags.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+"use strict";
+
+const assert = require("node:assert");
+const { test } = require("node:test");
+const { installVsCodeHost } = require("./vscode-host.js");
+
+class Position {
+  constructor(line, character) {
+    this.line = line;
+    this.character = character;
+  }
+  translate(lineDelta, characterDelta) {
+    return new Position(this.line + lineDelta, this.character + characterDelta);
+  }
+  isEqual(other) {
+    return this.line === other.line && this.character === other.character;
+  }
+}
+
+class Selection {
+  constructor(active) {
+    this.active = active;
+    this.anchor = active;
+    this.isEmpty = true;
+  }
+}
+
+class SnippetString {
+  constructor(value) {
+    this.value = value;
+  }
+}
+
+let changeListener = null;
+const host = {
+  Position,
+  Selection,
+  SnippetString,
+  workspace: {
+    onDidChangeTextDocument(listener) {
+      changeListener = listener;
+      return { dispose() {} };
+    },
+    getConfiguration() {
+      return { get: (_key, fallback) => fallback };
+    },
+  },
+  window: { activeTextEditor: null },
+};
+
+const restoreHost = installVsCodeHost(host);
+const { registerAutoCloseTags } = require("../src/auto-close-tags.js");
+restoreHost();
+
+/**
+ * Drive the handler the way VS Code does: the document has already been
+ * updated and the carets moved by the time the change event fires.
+ */
+function scenario({ carets, snippetFor, typed = ">" }) {
+  const inserted = [];
+  const asked = [];
+  const document = { languageId: "wrn", version: 1, uri: { toString: () => "file:///a.wrn" } };
+  const editor = {
+    document,
+    selections: carets.map((caret) => new Selection(caret)),
+    insertSnippet(snippet, positions) {
+      inserted.push({ value: snippet.value, positions });
+      return Promise.resolve(true);
+    },
+  };
+  editor.selection = editor.selections[0];
+  host.window.activeTextEditor = editor;
+
+  const client = {
+    sendRequest(_method, params) {
+      asked.push(params.position);
+      return Promise.resolve(snippetFor(params.position));
+    },
+  };
+
+  registerAutoCloseTags({ subscriptions: [] }, client);
+
+  return {
+    inserted,
+    asked,
+    fire: () =>
+      changeListener({
+        document,
+        // Pre-edit coordinates, deliberately not usable as caret positions.
+        contentChanges: carets.map(() => ({
+          text: typed,
+          rangeLength: 0,
+          range: { start: new Position(0, 0) },
+        })),
+      }),
+  };
+}
+
+test("closes the tag at a single caret", async () => {
+  const run = scenario({ carets: [new Position(1, 8)], snippetFor: () => "$0</div>" });
+  await run.fire();
+
+  assert.equal(run.inserted.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(run.inserted[0].value, "$0</div>");
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    run.inserted[0].positions.map((p) => [p.line, p.character]),
+    [[1, 8]],
+  );
+});
+
+test("closes the tag at every caret in one insertion", async () => {
+  // One insertSnippet call is what keeps all the carets alive: inserting
+  // sequentially would collapse the selection to the first snippet.
+  const run = scenario({
+    carets: [new Position(1, 8), new Position(2, 8), new Position(3, 8)],
+    snippetFor: () => "$0</div>",
+  });
+  await run.fire();
+
+  assert.equal(run.asked.length, 3);
+  assert.equal(run.inserted.length, 1);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    run.inserted[0].positions.map((p) => [p.line, p.character]),
+    [
+      [1, 8],
+      [2, 8],
+      [3, 8],
+    ],
+  );
+});
+
+test("asks about each caret's own position rather than the change ranges", async () => {
+  // Every contentChange above reports (0, 0). Using those would query and
+  // insert at the wrong offsets once more than one caret is on a line.
+  const run = scenario({
+    carets: [new Position(4, 12), new Position(9, 3)],
+    snippetFor: () => "$0</p>",
+  });
+  await run.fire();
+
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    run.asked.map((p) => [p.line, p.character]),
+    [
+      [4, 12],
+      [9, 3],
+    ],
+  );
+});
+
+test("declines when the carets want different closing tags", async () => {
+  const run = scenario({
+    carets: [new Position(1, 8), new Position(2, 8)],
+    snippetFor: (position) => (position.line === 1 ? "$0</div>" : "$0</span>"),
+  });
+  await run.fire();
+
+  assert.equal(run.inserted.length, 0);
+});
+
+test("declines when any caret has no tag to close", async () => {
+  const run = scenario({
+    carets: [new Position(1, 8), new Position(2, 8)],
+    snippetFor: (position) => (position.line === 1 ? "$0</br>" : null),
+  });
+  await run.fire();
+
+  assert.equal(run.inserted.length, 0);
+});
+
+test("declines a replaced selection", async () => {
+  const run = scenario({ carets: [new Position(1, 8)], snippetFor: () => "$0</div>" });
+  await changeListener({
+    document: { languageId: "wrn", version: 1, uri: { toString: () => "file:///a.wrn" } },
+    contentChanges: [{ text: ">", rangeLength: 3, range: { start: new Position(1, 5) } }],
+  });
+
+  assert.equal(run.inserted.length, 0);
+});

editors/vscode/test/completion-scope.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+"use strict";
+
+const test = require("node:test");
+const assert = require("node:assert");
+const { installVsCodeHost } = require("./vscode-host.js");
+
+const restoreHost = installVsCodeHost({
+  Position: class Position {
+    constructor(line, character) {
+      this.line = line;
+      this.character = character;
+    }
+  },
+  Range: class Range {
+    constructor(start, end) {
+      this.start = start;
+      this.end = end;
+    }
+  },
+  CompletionItem: class CompletionItem {
+    constructor(label, kind) {
+      this.label = label;
+      this.kind = kind;
+    }
+  },
+  CompletionItemKind: {
+    Event: 23,
+    Property: 10,
+    Function: 12,
+    Keyword: 14,
+    Variable: 13,
+  },
+  SnippetString: class SnippetString {
+    constructor(text) {
+      this.value = text;
+    }
+  },
+  MarkdownString: class MarkdownString {
+    constructor(text) {
+      this.value = text;
+    }
+  },
+});
+const { isInsideViewBlock, provideCompletionItems } = require("../src/completion.js");
+restoreHost();
+
+const PAGE = `page Home {
+  view {
+    <div>hello</div>
+  }
+  functions {
+    function go() {}
+  }
+}
+`;
+
+test("a markup offset is inside a view block", () => {
+  assert.equal(isInsideViewBlock(PAGE, PAGE.indexOf("<div")), true);
+});
+
+test("a functions-block offset is not inside a view block", () => {
+  assert.equal(isInsideViewBlock(PAGE, PAGE.indexOf("function go")), false);
+});
+
+test("provideCompletionItems returns empty array when inside view block", () => {
+  const document = {
+    getText() {
+      return PAGE;
+    },
+    offsetAt() {
+      return PAGE.indexOf("<div");
+    },
+    lineAt() {
+      return { text: "<div>hello</div>" };
+    },
+    fileName: "test.wrn",
+  };
+  const position = { line: 2, character: 4 };
+
+  const result = provideCompletionItems(document, position);
+  assert.equal(Array.isArray(result), true);
+  assert.equal(result.length, 0);
+});
+
+test("provideCompletionItems returns non-empty array when inside functions block", () => {
+  const document = {
+    getText() {
+      return PAGE;
+    },
+    offsetAt() {
+      return PAGE.indexOf("function go");
+    },
+    lineAt() {
+      return { text: "    function go() {}" };
+    },
+    fileName: "test.wrn",
+  };
+  const position = { line: 5, character: 4 };
+
+  const result = provideCompletionItems(document, position);
+  assert.equal(Array.isArray(result), true);
+  assert(result.length > 0, "should return non-empty completions outside view block");
+});

editors/vscode/test/completion.test.js

@@ -2,17 +2,13 @@
 
 const assert = require("node:assert");
 const { test } = require("node:test");
-const Module = require("node:module");
+const { installVsCodeHost } = require("./vscode-host.js");
 
 // These extraction helpers are pure, but their module also registers VS Code
 // providers at runtime. Supply a minimal host shim for unit tests.
-const originalLoad = Module._load;
+const restoreHost = installVsCodeHost({});
-Module._load = function load(request, parent, isMain) {
-  if (request === "vscode") return {};
-  return originalLoad.call(this, request, parent, isMain);
-};
 const { extractRouteParams, extractStates } = require("../src/completion");
-Module._load = originalLoad;
+restoreHost();
 
 test("extracts dynamic route params from filename", () => {
   const document = {

editors/vscode/test/diagnostics.test.js

@@ -2,30 +2,24 @@
 
 const assert = require("node:assert");
 const { test } = require("node:test");
-const Module = require("node:module");
+const { installVsCodeHost } = require("./vscode-host.js");
 
-const originalLoad = Module._load;
+const restoreHost = installVsCodeHost({
-Module._load = function load(request, parent, isMain) {
+  Diagnostic: class Diagnostic {
-  if (request === "vscode") {
+    constructor(range, message, severity) {
-    return {
+      this.range = range;
-      Diagnostic: class Diagnostic {
+      this.message = message;
-        constructor(range, message, severity) {
+      this.severity = severity;
-          this.range = range;
+    }
-          this.message = message;
+  },
-          this.severity = severity;
+  DiagnosticSeverity: { Error: 0, Warning: 1 },
-        }
+  Range: class Range {
-      },
+    constructor(start, end) {
-      DiagnosticSeverity: { Error: 0, Warning: 1 },
+      this.start = start;
-      Range: class Range {
+      this.end = end;
-        constructor(start, end) {
+    }
-          this.start = start;
+  },
-          this.end = end;
+});
-        }
-      },
-    };
-  }
-  return originalLoad.call(this, request, parent, isMain);
-};
 const {
   findTopLevelDeclaration,
   maskLeadingTrivia,
@@ -34,7 +28,7 @@ const {
   validateLayoutUsage,
   validateRootMembers,
 } = require("../src/diagnostics");
-Module._load = originalLoad;
+restoreHost();
 
 function mockDocument() {
   return {

editors/vscode/test/validate.mjs

@@ -113,6 +113,21 @@ try {
     readFileSync(join(root, rel), "utf8");
     ok(`Marketplace document exists: ${rel}`);
   }
+
+  const emmetLanguages = manifest.contributes?.configurationDefaults?.["emmet.includeLanguages"];
+  emmetLanguages?.wrn === "html"
+    ? ok("Emmet is mapped for wrn documents")
+    : bad("Emmet is mapped for wrn documents", `got ${JSON.stringify(emmetLanguages)}`);
+
+  const autoClose =
+    manifest.contributes?.configuration?.properties?.["wrnexus.html.autoClosingTags"];
+  autoClose?.type === "boolean" && autoClose?.default === true
+    ? ok("auto-closing tags setting is contributed")
+    : bad("auto-closing tags setting is contributed", `got ${JSON.stringify(autoClose)}`);
+
+  manifest.dependencies?.["vscode-html-languageservice"]
+    ? ok("HTML language service ships as a runtime dependency")
+    : bad("HTML language service ships as a runtime dependency");
 } catch (e) {
   bad("Marketplace metadata", e.message);
 }

editors/vscode/test/vscode-host.js

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+"use strict";
+
+/**
+ * Supply a stub `vscode` host so extension sources can be unit tested.
+ *
+ * These files run under `node --test` (see the package's test script), where
+ * patching `Module._load` is enough. A bare `bun test` from the repository
+ * root also picks them up by filename, and Bun resolves `require` through its
+ * own resolver without consulting `Module._load` -- so under Bun the same
+ * files failed with "Cannot find package 'vscode'". Registering a virtual
+ * module covers that case, leaving one shim that works under both runners.
+ *
+ * Returns a function restoring the original loader.
+ */
+function installVsCodeHost(stub) {
+  const Module = require("node:module");
+
+  if (typeof Bun !== "undefined") {
+    require("bun").plugin({
+      name: "vscode-host-stub",
+      setup(build) {
+        build.module("vscode", () => ({ exports: stub, loader: "object" }));
+      },
+    });
+    return () => {};
+  }
+
+  const originalLoad = Module._load;
+  Module._load = function load(request, parent, isMain) {
+    if (request === "vscode") return stub;
+    return originalLoad.call(this, request, parent, isMain);
+  };
+
+  return () => {
+    Module._load = originalLoad;
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = { installVsCodeHost };

examples/basic-app/app/api/directory.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import { defineEndpoint } from "@wrnexus/core";
+import { SearchDirectorySchema } from "../schemas/search-directory.ts";
+
+interface DirectoryUser {
+  name: string;
+  designation: string;
+}
+
+const ALL: DirectoryUser[] = [
+  { name: "Ajay", designation: "UI" },
+  { name: "Asha", designation: "Backend" },
+  { name: "Chen", designation: "UI" },
+];
+
+/**
+ * Schema-typed handler: input resolves to `{ name?: string }` from
+ * SearchDirectorySchema, so the block's request shape is checked for real
+ * (not against `unknown`, which the untyped-handler shape resolved to).
+ */
+export const POST = defineEndpoint<{ name?: string }, { users: DirectoryUser[] }>({
+  input: SearchDirectorySchema,
+  description: "Case-insensitive substring search over the demo directory by name.",
+  handler(input) {
+    const needle = String(input.name ?? "").toLowerCase();
+    return { users: ALL.filter((user) => user.name.toLowerCase().includes(needle)) };
+  },
+});

examples/basic-app/app/db/queries.gen.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// AUTO-GENERATED by `wrnexus db generate` — do not edit.
+// AUTO-GENERATED by `wrnexus db generate` (dialect: sqlite) — do not edit.
 import type { Db, ExecResult } from "@wrnexus/db";
 import { users } from "./schema.ts";
 

examples/basic-app/app/pages/api-block-demo.wrn

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+page ApiBlockDemo {
+  state nameFilter = "a"
+  state found = ""
+  state failed = ""
+
+  client {
+    api searchDirectory POST /api/directory {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name?: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data.data.users
+      }
+
+      error {
+        return []
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  functions {
+    client async function search(): Promise<void> {
+      const users = await api.searchDirectory({ name: nameFilter })
+      found = users.map((user) => user.name).join(", ")
+    }
+  }
+
+  view {
+    <main>
+      <button @click="search()">Search</button>
+      <p class="found" data-text="found">{found}</p>
+      <p class="failed" data-text="failed">{failed}</p>
+    </main>
+  }
+}

examples/basic-app/app/routes.gen.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 export interface Routes {
   "/": Record<string, never>;
   "/about": Record<string, never>;
+  "/api-block-demo": Record<string, never>;
   "/async-data": Record<string, never>;
   "/chat": Record<string, never>;
   "/client-only": Record<string, never>;
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ export interface Routes {
 export interface RouteNames {
   "index": "/";
   "about": "/about";
+  "api.block.demo": "/api-block-demo";
   "async.data": "/async-data";
   "chat": "/chat";
   "client.only": "/client-only";
@@ -119,6 +121,7 @@ export function route<N extends RouteName>(
   const paths: Record<RouteName, RoutePath> = {
   "index": "/",
   "about": "/about",
+  "api.block.demo": "/api-block-demo",
   "async.data": "/async-data",
   "chat": "/chat",
   "client.only": "/client-only",

examples/basic-app/app/schemas/search-directory.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import { v } from "@wrnexus/validation";
+
+export const SearchDirectorySchema = v.object({
+  name: v.string().trim().optional(),
+});

examples/basic-app/app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+// AUTO-GENERATED by `wrnexus generate types` - do not edit.
+//
+// Type-only assertions for sectioned `api` blocks. Kept as a real .ts file (not
+// wrnexus.generated.d.ts) because `skipLibCheck` exempts .d.ts contents from being
+// checked; this file is compiled and checked normally by the project's own tsc.
+export type __wrn_api_check_1fljm5i_searchDirectory = WRNexusGenerated.__wrn_expect_true<WRNexusGenerated.AssertAssignable<{ name?: string }, WRNexusGenerated.ApiInput<"/api/directory", "POST">>>;
+export {};

examples/basic-app/app/types/wrnexus.generated.d.ts

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ declare namespace WRNexusGenerated {
       : never;
   type RealtimeMessage<T> = T extends import("@wrnexus/core").RoomDefinition<any, infer M> ? M : unknown;
   type QueuePayload<T> = T extends import("@wrnexus/queue").JobDefinition<infer I> ? I : unknown;
-  type RouteName = "about" | "async.data" | "chat" | "client.only" | "dashboard" | "hello" | "index" | "island.demo" | "language.tools" | "layout" | "login" | "modal" | "navigation" | "partial.static" | "platform.showcase" | "reactive" | "server.actions" | "table" | "test" | "ui";
+  type RouteName = "about" | "api.block.demo" | "async.data" | "chat" | "client.only" | "dashboard" | "hello" | "index" | "island.demo" | "language.tools" | "layout" | "login" | "modal" | "navigation" | "partial.static" | "platform.showcase" | "reactive" | "server.actions" | "table" | "test" | "ui";
-  type ApiRoute = "/api/accounts" | "/api/echo" | "/api/graphql-example" | "/api/hello" | "/api/invite" | "/api/login" | "/api/logout" | "/api/me" | "/api/typed-user" | "/api/users/csr" | "/api/users/ssr" | "/api/webhooks/payment";
+  type ApiRoute = "/api/accounts" | "/api/directory" | "/api/echo" | "/api/graphql-example" | "/api/hello" | "/api/invite" | "/api/login" | "/api/logout" | "/api/me" | "/api/typed-user" | "/api/users/csr" | "/api/users/ssr" | "/api/webhooks/payment";
   type RealtimeRoute = "/realtime/chat" | "/realtime/hello";
   type EnvironmentKey = "APP_LABEL" | "DATABASE_URL" | "DEMO_SHARED" | "HOST" | "NODE_ENV" | "PORT" | "SESSION_SECRET" | "UAT_ONLY";
   type TranslationKey = "api.greeting" | "home.intro" | "home.title" | "nav.about" | "nav.chat" | "nav.dashboard" | "nav.home" | "nav.layout" | "nav.navigation" | "nav.ui";
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ declare namespace WRNexusGenerated {
     "/api/users/ssr": { GET: ApiContract<typeof import("../api/users/ssr.ts")["GET"]> };
     "/api/graphql-example": { POST: ApiContract<typeof import("../api/graphql-example.ts")["POST"]> };
     "/api/typed-user": { POST: ApiContract<typeof import("../api/typed-user.ts")["POST"]> };
+    "/api/directory": { POST: ApiContract<typeof import("../api/directory.ts")["POST"]> };
     "/api/accounts": { GET: ApiContract<typeof import("../api/accounts.ts")["GET"]> };
     "/api/invite": { POST: ApiContract<typeof import("../api/invite.ts")["POST"]> };
     "/api/logout": { POST: ApiContract<typeof import("../api/logout.ts")["POST"]> };
@@ -57,4 +58,14 @@ declare namespace WRNexusGenerated {
     "welcome-email": QueuePayload<(typeof import("../queues/welcome-email.ts"))["default"]>;
   }
   type ApplicationConfig = (typeof import("../../wrnexus.config.ts"))["default"];
+  type AssertAssignable<Actual, Expected> = unknown extends Expected
+    ? true
+    : [Actual] extends [Expected]
+      ? [Exclude<keyof Actual, keyof Expected>] extends [never]
+        ? true
+        : false
+      : false;
+  type __wrn_expect_true<T extends true> = T;
+  type ApiInput<P extends ApiRoute, M> = ApiContracts[P][M]["input"];
+  type ApiOutput<P extends ApiRoute, M> = ApiContracts[P][M]["output"];
 }

packages/cli/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/cli",
-  "version": "0.8.41",
+  "version": "0.8.46",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
   "exports": {

packages/cli/src/build.ts

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import {
   type DeploymentRuntime,
   runtimeCapabilities,
   resolveWrnImports,
+  stripBrowserTypes,
 } from "@wrnexus/compiler";
 import {
   loadAppConfig,
@@ -324,7 +325,9 @@ export async function runBuild(appRoot: string): Promise<void> {
       }
 
       writeFileSync(out, code, "utf8");
-      writeFileSync(clientEntry, browserCode, "utf8");
+      // The entry is .mjs, so anything TypeScript left in a client function
+      // body would be read back as JavaScript and fail to parse.
+      writeFileSync(clientEntry, stripBrowserTypes(browserCode), "utf8");
       const browserResult = await Bun.build({
         entrypoints: [clientEntry],
         target: "browser",

packages/cli/src/types.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { buildRouter, createRouteManifest, nameRoutes } from "@wrnexus/router";
 // Keep the CLI checker sourced from the package contract so typecheck fixes are
 // included in each published CLI bundle.
 import { checkWrnFile, type WrnTypeDiagnostic } from "@wrnexus/typecheck";
-import { parse } from "@wrnexus/syntax";
+import { parse, type PageAst } from "@wrnexus/syntax";
 import { generate, generateTargets } from "@wrnexus/compiler";
 import { regenerateRoutes } from "./routes.ts";
 import { loadAppConfig } from "@wrnexus/styles";
@@ -99,6 +99,78 @@ function writePluginArtifacts(root: string, contributions?: PluginContributions)
   );
 }
 
+/**
+ * Type assertions for sectioned api blocks.
+ *
+ * Enforcement lives here rather than in the compiler because this file is under
+ * `app/` and is therefore compiled by the project's own tsc, while generated
+ * build artifacts are not type-checked at all.
+ */
+function pageSlug(path: string): string {
+  // Block names are only unique within a single page (see apiBindingMap), so
+  // two pages each declaring e.g. `api search` is legal and would otherwise
+  // emit the identical `__wrn_api_check_search` type alias twice into this
+  // one flat file — TS2300 ("duplicate identifier"). Qualify every emitted
+  // name with a short deterministic hash of the page's path (not the whole
+  // path itself, which can be arbitrarily long/ugly once made identifier-safe)
+  // to keep names unique across the whole app while staying compact.
+  const normalized = path.replace(/\\/g, "/");
+  let hash = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < normalized.length; i++) {
+    hash = (Math.imul(hash, 31) + normalized.charCodeAt(i)) | 0;
+  }
+  return (hash >>> 0).toString(36);
+}
+
+function apiBlockAssertions(
+  pages: { path: string; ast: PageAst }[],
+  apiContracts: string,
+  appDir: string,
+): string {
+  const lines: string[] = [];
+
+  for (const page of pages) {
+    // Hash the path relative to `app/`, not the absolute path: the absolute
+    // path varies with where the project checkout lives (e.g. a CI runner's
+    // temp clone vs. a developer's local path), which would make this file
+    // spuriously "stale" every time it's regenerated somewhere else.
+    const slug = pageSlug(relative(appDir, page.path).replace(/\\/g, "/"));
+    for (const block of page.ast.dataApis) {
+      if (!block.sections) continue;
+
+      // ssr-mode sectioned blocks can never declare a `request` (they are
+      // render-time only), so they always fall back to the empty-shape
+      // `Record<string, never>` below. `keyof Record<string, never>` is
+      // `string`, which makes the key-exactness arm of AssertAssignable
+      // evaluate to `false` unconditionally and raises TS2344 on every such
+      // block regardless of whether the block author did anything wrong.
+      // We choose to skip emission for both (a) any non-client-mode block,
+      // since it structurally can never have a request to check, and (b) any
+      // block -- client included -- that has zero declared request fields,
+      // since there is nothing to assert type-safety about. This is more
+      // honest about intent than emitting a vacuous/always-failing check.
+      const fields = [...block.sections.parameters, ...block.sections.body];
+      if (block.mode !== "client" || fields.length === 0) continue;
+
+      if (!apiContracts.includes(JSON.stringify(block.path))) {
+        console.warn(
+          `[wrnexus] api block "${block.name}" targets ${block.path}, which has no defineEndpoint contract — its declared types are not checked.`,
+        );
+      }
+
+      const shape = `{ ${fields.map((f) => `${f.name}${f.optional ? "?" : ""}: ${f.type}`).join("; ")} }`;
+
+      lines.push(
+        `export type __wrn_api_check_${slug}_${block.name} = WRNexusGenerated.__wrn_expect_true<WRNexusGenerated.AssertAssignable<${shape}, WRNexusGenerated.ApiInput<${JSON.stringify(
+          block.path,
+        )}, ${JSON.stringify(block.method)}>>>;`,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  return lines.join("\n");
+}
+
 export function generateApplicationTypes(
   appRoot: string,
   pluginContributions?: PluginContributions,
@@ -145,6 +217,10 @@ export function generateApplicationTypes(
       return `    ${JSON.stringify(component.name)}: { props: ${props ? `{ ${props} }` : "Record<string, never>"}; outputs: ${outputs ? `{ ${outputs} }` : "Record<string, never>"} };`;
     })
     .join("\n");
+  const pageAsts = files(app, (path) => extname(path) === ".wrn").map((file) => ({
+    path: file,
+    ast: parse(readFileSync(file, "utf8")),
+  }));
   const typeDir = join(app, "types");
   const apiContracts = router.api
     .map((route) => {
@@ -218,11 +294,33 @@ declare namespace WRNexusGenerated {
   ${generatedContractMap("RealtimeMessages", realtimeContracts)}
   ${generatedContractMap("QueuePayloads", queueContracts)}
   type ApplicationConfig = ${configFile ? `(typeof import(${typeImport(typeDir, configFile)}))["default"]` : "Record<string, never>"};
+  type AssertAssignable<Actual, Expected> = unknown extends Expected
+    ? true
+    : [Actual] extends [Expected]
+      ? [Exclude<keyof Actual, keyof Expected>] extends [never]
+        ? true
+        : false
+      : false;
+  type __wrn_expect_true<T extends true> = T;
+  type ApiInput<P extends ApiRoute, M> = ApiContracts[P][M]["input"];
+  type ApiOutput<P extends ApiRoute, M> = ApiContracts[P][M]["output"];
 }
 `;
   mkdirSync(typeDir, { recursive: true });
   const output = join(typeDir, "wrnexus.generated.d.ts");
   writeFileSync(output, code, "utf8");
+  // `.d.ts` contents are exempt from checking under `skipLibCheck: true` (set in the
+  // repo/app tsconfig), so the per-block assertions are written into a real `.ts` file
+  // instead — only genuine `.ts`/`.tsx` sources are compiled and checked.
+  const apiChecksCode = `// AUTO-GENERATED by \`wrnexus generate types\` - do not edit.
+//
+// Type-only assertions for sectioned \`api\` blocks. Kept as a real .ts file (not
+// wrnexus.generated.d.ts) because \`skipLibCheck\` exempts .d.ts contents from being
+// checked; this file is compiled and checked normally by the project's own tsc.
+${apiBlockAssertions(pageAsts, apiContracts, app)}
+export {};
+`;
+  writeFileSync(join(typeDir, "wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), apiChecksCode, "utf8");
   writePluginArtifacts(root, pluginContributions);
   return {
     file: relative(root, output).replace(/\\/g, "/"),

packages/cli/test/api-block-types.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+import { afterEach, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { generateApplicationTypes } from "../src/types.ts";
+
+const roots: string[] = [];
+afterEach(() => {
+  for (const root of roots.splice(0)) rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+/** Minimal app with one typed endpoint and one page that calls it. */
+function fixture(block: string): string {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-api-types-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(join(root, "app/pages"), { recursive: true });
+  mkdirSync(join(root, "app/api"), { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/api/users.ts"),
+    `export const POST = async () => Response.json({ users: [] });\n`,
+  );
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/pages/search.wrn"),
+    `page Search {\n  client {\n${block}\n  }\n\n  view { <main>x</main> }\n}\n`,
+  );
+  return root;
+}
+
+const BLOCK = `    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name?: string
+          age?: number
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+    }`;
+
+test("emits the ApiInput, ApiOutput and AssertAssignable helpers", () => {
+  const root = fixture(BLOCK);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const generated = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.d.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  expect(generated).toContain("type AssertAssignable<");
+  expect(generated).toContain('type ApiInput<P extends ApiRoute, M> = ApiContracts[P][M]["input"]');
+  expect(generated).toContain(
+    'type ApiOutput<P extends ApiRoute, M> = ApiContracts[P][M]["output"]',
+  );
+});
+
+// The per-block assertions live in a plain .ts file, not the .d.ts: `skipLibCheck: true`
+// (set repo-wide) exempts .d.ts *contents* from being checked at all, so a `.d.ts` can
+// never actually enforce anything here. A real .ts file under app/ is compiled and
+// checked normally.
+test("emits one assertion per sectioned block, naming its route and method", () => {
+  const root = fixture(BLOCK);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  expect(checks).toMatch(/__wrn_api_check_[\w$]*_searchUsers\b/);
+  expect(checks).toContain('WRNexusGenerated.ApiInput<"/api/users", "POST">');
+  expect(checks).toContain("name?: string");
+  expect(checks).toContain("age?: number");
+});
+
+test("a legacy bare-body block produces no assertion", () => {
+  const root = fixture(`    api legacyUsers GET /api/users {
+      return users.length
+    }`);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  expect(checks).not.toContain("__wrn_api_check_legacyUsers");
+});
+
+test("the api-checks file has no runtime code and is a module", () => {
+  const root = fixture(BLOCK);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  expect(checks).toContain("AUTO-GENERATED");
+  expect(checks.trim().endsWith("export {};")).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("B1: two pages each declaring a block with the same name do not collide", () => {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-api-types-collide-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(join(root, "app/pages"), { recursive: true });
+  mkdirSync(join(root, "app/api"), { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/api/users.ts"),
+    `export const POST = async () => Response.json({ users: [] });\n`,
+  );
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/pages/one.wrn"),
+    `page One {\n  client {\n${BLOCK}\n  }\n\n  view { <main>x</main> }\n}\n`,
+  );
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/pages/two.wrn"),
+    `page Two {\n  client {\n${BLOCK}\n  }\n\n  view { <main>x</main> }\n}\n`,
+  );
+
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  const names = [...checks.matchAll(/__wrn_api_check_\S+(?=\s*=)/g)].map((m) => m[0]);
+  expect(names.length).toBe(2);
+  expect(new Set(names).size).toBe(2);
+});
+
+test("B2: an ssr sectioned block emits no assertion (it can never declare a request)", () => {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-api-types-ssr-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(join(root, "app/pages"), { recursive: true });
+  mkdirSync(join(root, "app/api"), { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/api/users.ts"),
+    `export const GET = async () => Response.json({ users: [] });\n`,
+  );
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/pages/ssr.wrn"),
+    `page Ssr {\n  ssr {\n    api loadUsers GET /api/users {\n      response {\n        return data.users\n      }\n    }\n  }\n\n  view { <main>x</main> }\n}\n`,
+  );
+
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  expect(checks).not.toContain("__wrn_api_check");
+  expect(checks).not.toContain("loadUsers");
+});
+
+test("B2: a client block with an empty request emits no assertion", () => {
+  const root = fixture(`    api pingServer GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+    }`);
+
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  expect(checks).not.toContain("__wrn_api_check");
+  expect(checks).not.toContain("pingServer");
+});
+
+test("B6: each emitted assertion is exported, so noUnusedLocals cannot flag it", () => {
+  const root = fixture(BLOCK);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+
+  const assertionLine = checks
+    .split(/\r?\n/)
+    .find((line) => line.includes("__wrn_api_check_") && line.includes("="));
+  expect(assertionLine).toBeDefined();
+  expect(assertionLine).toMatch(/^export type __wrn_api_check_/);
+});
+
+// --- Real-compiler enforcement tests ---------------------------------------------
+//
+// Everything above only asserts on the emitted *text*. That proves nothing about
+// whether the assertions actually make `tsc` fail — a build that reverted to the
+// original inert `never`-based design, or one where `AssertAssignable` is merely
+// one-directional (so it misses an *extra* declared field), would pass every test
+// above unchanged. These tests instead run the real TypeScript compiler over the
+// generated output and assert on its diagnostics.
+//
+// The fixture endpoint takes a second (body) parameter so `ApiContract`'s fallback
+// branch infers a real input type (`{ name: string; email: string }`) instead of
+// `unknown` — with `unknown`, `AssertAssignable`'s untyped-route bypass means nothing
+// could ever fail, which would make these tests meaningless.
+function typedFixture(block: string): string {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-api-types-tsc-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(join(root, "app/pages"), { recursive: true });
+  mkdirSync(join(root, "app/api"), { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/api/users.ts"),
+    `export const POST = async (ctx: unknown, body: { name: string; email: string }) => Response.json(body);\n`,
+  );
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "app/pages/search.wrn"),
+    `page Search {\n  client {\n${block}\n  }\n\n  view { <main>x</main> }\n}\n`,
+  );
+  return root;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compiles the two generated files (and whatever they reference on disk) with the
+ * real TypeScript compiler and returns its stdout plus whether it reported any
+ * diagnostics.
+ */
+function typecheckGenerated(root: string): { ok: boolean; output: string } {
+  const dts = join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.d.ts");
+  const checks = join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts");
+  const result = Bun.spawnSync(
+    [
+      "bunx",
+      "tsc",
+      "--noEmit",
+      "--strict",
+      "--skipLibCheck",
+      "--moduleResolution",
+      "bundler",
+      "--target",
+      "ES2022",
+      "--module",
+      "ESNext",
+      dts,
+      checks,
+    ],
+    { cwd: root, stdout: "pipe", stderr: "pipe" },
+  );
+  const output = `${result.stdout?.toString() ?? ""}${result.stderr?.toString() ?? ""}`;
+  return { ok: result.exitCode === 0, output };
+}
+
+const MATCHING_BLOCK = `    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name: string
+          email: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data
+      }
+    }`;
+
+test("tsc: a block whose fields match the contract has no diagnostics", () => {
+  const root = typedFixture(MATCHING_BLOCK);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const { ok, output } = typecheckGenerated(root);
+
+  expect(output.trim()).toBe("");
+  expect(ok).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("tsc: a field with the wrong type fails, naming the block's assertion", () => {
+  const root = typedFixture(`    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name: number
+          email: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data
+      }
+    }`);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const { ok, output } = typecheckGenerated(root);
+
+  expect(ok).toBe(false);
+  expect(output).toContain("wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts");
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+  const failingLine = Number(output.match(/api-checks\.ts\((\d+),\d+\)/)?.[1]);
+  expect(checks.split(/\r?\n/)[failingLine - 1]).toMatch(/__wrn_api_check_[\w$]*_searchUsers\b/);
+});
+
+test("tsc: an extra field the contract does not accept fails (Finding A regression guard)", () => {
+  const root = typedFixture(`    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name: string
+          email: string
+          extra: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data
+      }
+    }`);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const { ok, output } = typecheckGenerated(root);
+
+  expect(ok).toBe(false);
+  expect(output).toContain("wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts");
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+  const failingLine = Number(output.match(/api-checks\.ts\((\d+),\d+\)/)?.[1]);
+  expect(checks.split(/\r?\n/)[failingLine - 1]).toMatch(/__wrn_api_check_[\w$]*_searchUsers\b/);
+});
+
+test("tsc: a missing required field fails", () => {
+  const root = typedFixture(`    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data
+      }
+    }`);
+  generateApplicationTypes(root);
+  const { ok, output } = typecheckGenerated(root);
+
+  expect(ok).toBe(false);
+  expect(output).toContain("wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts");
+  const checks = readFileSync(join(root, "app/types/wrnexus.generated.api-checks.ts"), "utf8");
+  const failingLine = Number(output.match(/api-checks\.ts\((\d+),\d+\)/)?.[1]);
+  expect(checks.split(/\r?\n/)[failingLine - 1]).toMatch(/__wrn_api_check_[\w$]*_searchUsers\b/);
+});

packages/compiler/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/compiler",
-  "version": "0.8.11",
+  "version": "0.8.14",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
   "exports": {

packages/compiler/src/browser-transpile.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/**
+ * Strip TypeScript from a generated browser module.
+ *
+ * A client function's body is emitted verbatim, so anything TypeScript-only
+ * inside one -- an annotated local, an `as` cast, a local interface -- reaches
+ * the browser module as TypeScript source. Codegen removes the types from the
+ * function's *signature*, which is what made this easy to miss: the emitted
+ * module looked transpiled, and only bodies carried types through.
+ *
+ * The artifact is written as `.mjs` and read back as plain JavaScript, so the
+ * failure surfaced as a syntax error pointing at generated code rather than at
+ * the `.wrn` line responsible.
+ */
+
+let transpiler: { transformSync(code: string): string } | null = null;
+
+export function stripBrowserTypes(code: string): string {
+  const bun = (
+    globalThis as unknown as {
+      Bun?: { Transpiler: new (options: unknown) => { transformSync(code: string): string } };
+    }
+  ).Bun;
+
+  if (!bun?.Transpiler) {
+    throw new Error(
+      "WRN-CLIENT-TS: emitting a browser module needs the Bun transpiler to remove TypeScript from client function bodies.",
+    );
+  }
+
+  transpiler ??= new bun.Transpiler({ loader: "ts", target: "browser" });
+
+  return transpiler.transformSync(code);
+}

packages/compiler/src/client-codegen.ts

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ const RUNTIME_BINDINGS = new Set([
   "server",
   "props",
   "refs",
+  "api",
   "event",
   "payload",
 ]);
@@ -308,6 +309,32 @@ function _functionEntry(
   }`;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Client-mode api blocks become members of an `api` object in client scope.
+ *
+ * Only the response and error bodies are emitted; the declared field types are
+ * type-only and are consumed by the types generator instead. Anything
+ * TypeScript reaching this module would be a syntax error in the .mjs artifact.
+ */
+function apiBindings(ast: PageAst): string {
+  const members = ast.dataApis
+    .filter((block) => block.mode === "client" && block.sections)
+    .map((block) => {
+      const sections = block.sections!;
+      const response = eraseFunctionTypes(sections.response).trim() || "return data;";
+      const error = eraseFunctionTypes(sections.error).trim();
+      const failure = error
+        ? `(error) => { const status = error.status; const message = error.message; const data = error.data; ${error} }`
+        : `(error) => { throw error; }`;
+
+      return `    ${JSON.stringify(block.name)}: async (input) => context.callApi(${JSON.stringify(
+        block.path,
+      )}, ${JSON.stringify(block.method)}, input).then((data) => { ${response} }, ${failure})`;
+    });
+
+  return members.length ? `const api = {\n${members.join(",\n")}\n  };` : "";
+}
+
 export function generateBrowserModule(ast: PageAst): string {
   const functions = ast.runtimeFunctions.filter((fn) =>
     ["legacy", "client", "shared"].includes(fn.runtime),
@@ -317,11 +344,23 @@ export function generateBrowserModule(ast: PageAst): string {
   const selectedImports = selectedBrowserImports(ast, functions);
   const imports = selectedImports.map((entry) => entry.code).join("\n");
   const importedBindings = [...new Set(selectedImports.flatMap((entry) => entry.bindings))];
-  const sharedState = state.filter((name) => safeIdentifier(name) && !RUNTIME_BINDINGS.has(name));
+  // `api` is only defined as a client-scope binding when the page actually has
+  // client-mode api blocks (see apiBindings below). A page that declares
+  // `state api` without any client api blocks must keep reading/writing that
+  // state as before, so only exclude the "api" name from destructuring when
+  // there is a real `api` binding to shadow it.
+  const hasClientApi = ast.dataApis.some((block) => block.mode === "client" && block.sections);
+  const localRuntimeBindings = hasClientApi
+    ? RUNTIME_BINDINGS
+    : new Set([...RUNTIME_BINDINGS].filter((name) => name !== "api"));
+  const sharedState = state.filter(
+    (name) => safeIdentifier(name) && !localRuntimeBindings.has(name),
+  );
   const sharedProps = ast.props
     .map((entry) => entry.name)
     .filter(
-      (name) => safeIdentifier(name) && !RUNTIME_BINDINGS.has(name) && !sharedState.includes(name),
+      (name) =>
+        safeIdentifier(name) && !localRuntimeBindings.has(name) && !sharedState.includes(name),
     );
   const callableAliases = functionNames.filter(
     (name) =>
@@ -365,6 +404,7 @@ function __wrnexusCreateClientFunctions(context) {
   const server = context.server;
   const props = context.props;
   const refs = context.refs;
+  ${apiBindings(ast)}
   const __wrnexusCommit = () => { ${sharedCommit} };
   const __wrnexusRestore = () => { ${sharedRestore} };
   ${!hasAuthoredCommit ? "const commit = __wrnexusCommit;" : ""}

packages/compiler/src/codegen.ts

@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ interface RenderBinding {
   path: string;
   body: string;
   helpers: string;
+  // Present only for a sectioned ssr block with a non-empty `error {}` section.
+  // When set, a failed API call runs this body (with `status`/`message`/`data`
+  // bound) instead of propagating. Absent -> failures propagate, unchanged.
+  errorBody?: string;
 }
 
 interface SsrBinding extends RenderBinding {
@@ -593,7 +597,22 @@ function renderNode(
   // templateEscape, swapped for its real `${…}` code after escaping.
   if (node.type === "each" || node.type === "if") {
     loops.push(node.type === "each" ? compileEachExpr(node) : compileIfExpr(node));
-    return `\x00WRNEACH${loops.length - 1}\x00`;
+    const definition =
+      node.type === "each"
+        ? {
+            list: node.list,
+            item: node.item,
+            index: node.index,
+            key: node.key,
+            body: renderClientControlTemplate(node.body),
+            empty: renderClientControlTemplate(node.empty),
+          }
+        : node.branches.map((branch) => ({
+            cond: branch.cond,
+            body: renderClientControlTemplate(branch.body),
+          }));
+    const attribute = node.type === "each" ? "data-wrn-each" : "data-wrn-if";
+    return `<template ${attribute}="${encodeClientControl(definition)}"></template>\x00WRNEACH${loops.length - 1}\x00<template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
   }
 
   if (node.tag === "Static" || node.tag === "Dynamic") {
@@ -858,6 +877,7 @@ function renderBinding(binding: NamedDataBinding): RenderBinding {
     path: binding.path,
     body: binding.body,
     helpers: binding.helpers,
+    ...(binding.errorBody ? { errorBody: binding.errorBody } : {}),
   };
 }
 
@@ -921,11 +941,21 @@ function apiBindingMap(ast: PageAst, sharedHelpers: string): Map<string, NamedDa
     if (bindings.has(block.name)) {
       throw new Error(`Duplicate .wrn api binding "${block.name}"`);
     }
+    const sectioned = block.sections;
+    const errorSection = sectioned?.error.trim();
     bindings.set(block.name, {
       mode: block.mode,
       method: block.method,
       path: apiRoutePath(block.path),
-      body: dataBody(block.body),
+      // A sectioned block binds the payload to `data`; the legacy form keeps
+      // the `with ($data)` injection, which cannot be typed.
+      body: sectioned
+        ? `const data = $data; ${sectioned.response.trim() || "return data;"}`
+        : dataBody(block.body),
+      // Only a sectioned block with a non-empty `error {}` gets a fallback —
+      // legacy blocks and sectioned blocks without `error` keep failures
+      // propagating exactly as before.
+      ...(errorSection ? { errorBody: errorSection } : {}),
       helpers: modeHelpers(ast, block.mode, sharedHelpers),
     });
   }
@@ -934,7 +964,7 @@ function apiBindingMap(ast: PageAst, sharedHelpers: string): Map<string, NamedDa
 }
 
 function ssrRuntimeSource(): string {
-  return `const __wrnexusHtmlEscapes = { "&": "&amp;", "<": "&lt;", ">": "&gt;", "\\"": "&quot;", "'": "&#39;" };
+  return `const __wrnexusHtmlEscapes: Record<string, string> = { "&": "&amp;", "<": "&lt;", ">": "&gt;", "\\"": "&quot;", "'": "&#39;" };
 function __wrnexusEscapeHtml(value: unknown): string {
   return String(value).replace(/[&<>"']/g, (ch) => __wrnexusHtmlEscapes[ch] ?? ch);
 }
@@ -953,6 +983,18 @@ function __wrnexusEvalData(data: unknown, body: string, helpers = "", ctx: __Wrn
   return new Function("$data", "$adapters", "const cookies = $adapters.cookies;\\nconst session = $adapters.session;\\nconst localStorage = $adapters.localStorage;\\nwith ($data ?? {}) {\\n" + helpers + "\\n" + body + "\\n}")(data, adapters);
 }
 
+function __wrnexusEvalError(err: unknown, body: string, helpers = "", ctx: __WrnexusContext): unknown {
+  const adapters = {
+    cookies: ctx.cookies,
+    session: ctx.session,
+    localStorage: ctx.localStorage,
+  };
+  const status = (err as { status?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.status;
+  const data = (err as { data?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.data;
+  const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+  return new Function("$status", "$message", "$data", "$adapters", "const cookies = $adapters.cookies;\\nconst session = $adapters.session;\\nconst localStorage = $adapters.localStorage;\\nconst status = $status;\\nconst message = $message;\\nconst data = $data;\\n" + helpers + "\\n" + body)(status, message, data, adapters);
+}
+
 function __wrnexusPropAttr(
   value: unknown,
 ): string {
@@ -982,18 +1024,53 @@ async function __wrnexusCallApi(path: string, method: string, ctx: __WrnexusCont
 
   const url = new URL(path, ctx.req.url);
   const res = await fetch(new Request(url, { method, headers: ctx.req.headers }));
+  const type = res.headers.get("content-type") || "";
   if (!res.ok) {
-    throw new Error(".wrn data API request failed with status " + res.status);
+    const data = type.includes("application/json")
+      ? await res.json().catch(() => undefined)
+      : await res.text().catch(() => undefined);
+    throw Object.assign(new Error(".wrn data API request failed with status " + res.status), {
+      status: res.status,
+      data,
+    });
   }
 
-  const type = res.headers.get("content-type") || "";
   return type.includes("application/json") ? await res.json() : await res.text();
 }
 
+type __WrnexusApiCall = {
+  path: string;
+  method: string;
+  body: string;
+  helpers: string;
+  errorBody?: string;
+};
+
+type __WrnexusSsrBinding = __WrnexusApiCall & { marker: string };
+
+// Shared by every ssr api-binding consumption site (marker replacement,
+// #each loop consts, ...) so the narrow try/catch -- only active when the
+// block declared an error section -- cannot drift between call sites.
+async function __wrnexusResolveApiBinding(
+  binding: __WrnexusApiCall,
+  ctx: __WrnexusContext,
+): Promise<unknown> {
+  if (binding.errorBody) {
+    let data: unknown;
+    try {
+      data = await __wrnexusCallApi(binding.path, binding.method, ctx);
+    } catch (err) {
+      return __wrnexusEvalError(err, binding.errorBody, binding.helpers, ctx);
+    }
+    return __wrnexusEvalData(data, binding.body, binding.helpers, ctx);
+  }
+  const data = await __wrnexusCallApi(binding.path, binding.method, ctx);
+  return __wrnexusEvalData(data, binding.body, binding.helpers, ctx);
+}
+
 async function __wrnexusRenderSsrBindings(html: string, ctx: __WrnexusContext): Promise<string> {
   for (const binding of __wrnexusSsrBindings) {
-    const data = await __wrnexusCallApi(binding.path, binding.method, ctx);
+    const value = await __wrnexusResolveApiBinding(binding, ctx);
-    const value = __wrnexusEvalData(data, binding.body, binding.helpers, ctx);
     html = html.replace(binding.marker, __wrnexusEscapeHtml(value));
   }
   return html;
@@ -1502,8 +1579,11 @@ function generateInner(ast: PageAst): string {
     for (const [name, binding] of apiBindings) {
       if (binding.mode !== "ssr") continue;
       if (!lists.some((expr) => new RegExp(`\\b${name}\\b`).test(expr))) continue;
+      const errorBodyProp = binding.errorBody
+        ? `, errorBody: ${JSON.stringify(binding.errorBody)}`
+        : "";
       loopConsts.push(
-        `  const ${name} = __wrnexusEvalData(await __wrnexusCallApi(${JSON.stringify(binding.path)}, ${JSON.stringify(binding.method)}, ctx), ${JSON.stringify(binding.body)}, ${JSON.stringify(binding.helpers)}, ctx);`,
+        `  const ${name} = await __wrnexusResolveApiBinding({ path: ${JSON.stringify(binding.path)}, method: ${JSON.stringify(binding.method)}, body: ${JSON.stringify(binding.body)}, helpers: ${JSON.stringify(binding.helpers)}${errorBodyProp} }, ctx);`,
       );
     }
   }
@@ -1511,7 +1591,9 @@ function generateInner(ast: PageAst): string {
   const needsSsrRuntime = ssrBindings.length > 0 || loops.length > 0 || runtimeStateNames.size > 0;
   if (needsSsrRuntime) {
     out.push(ssrRuntimeSource());
-    out.push(`const __wrnexusSsrBindings = ${JSON.stringify(ssrBindings, null, 2)};`);
+    out.push(
+      `const __wrnexusSsrBindings: __WrnexusSsrBinding[] = ${JSON.stringify(ssrBindings, null, 2)};`,
+    );
     const decls = loopConsts.length > 0 ? loopConsts.join("\n") + "\n" : "";
     out.push(
       `export default async function ${ast.name}(ctx: __WrnexusContext) {
@@ -2037,6 +2119,87 @@ function compileAttrValue(raw: string, ctx: CompCtx): string {
   return out + escLit(attrEscape(raw.slice(last)));
 }
 
+/**
+ * Serialize a control-block body as inert browser-side template markup.
+ * Values deliberately remain as mustaches: the CSR runtime evaluates them
+ * against the component scope (and `{#each}` locals) when it materializes the
+ * template.  The string is base64 encoded before it is placed in HTML.
+ */
+function renderClientControlTemplate(nodes: ViewNode[]): string {
+  const render = (node: ViewNode): string => {
+    if (node.type === "text") {
+      return node.value.replace(/\{([^{}]+)\}/g, (whole, rawExpression: string) => {
+        const expression = rawExpression.trim();
+        return expression.startsWith("t:")
+          ? `<span data-t="${attrEscape(expression.slice(2).trim())}"></span>`
+          : `<span data-text="${attrEscape(expression)}">${whole}</span>`;
+      });
+    }
+    if (node.type === "each") {
+      return `<template data-wrn-each="${attrEscape(
+        encodeClientControl({
+          list: node.list,
+          item: node.item,
+          index: node.index,
+          key: node.key,
+          body: renderClientControlTemplate(node.body),
+          empty: renderClientControlTemplate(node.empty),
+        }),
+      )}"></template><template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
+    }
+    if (node.type === "if") {
+      return `<template data-wrn-if="${attrEscape(
+        encodeClientControl(
+          node.branches.map((branch) => ({
+            cond: branch.cond,
+            body: renderClientControlTemplate(branch.body),
+          })),
+        ),
+      )}"></template><template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
+    }
+
+    const componentTag = isComponentTag(node.tag);
+    let bindIndex = 0;
+    const attrs = node.attrs
+      .map((attribute) => {
+        const name = attribute.event
+          ? componentTag
+            ? componentEventAttribute(attribute.name)
+            : eventAttribute(attribute.name)
+          : attribute.name;
+        if (attribute.boolean) return ` ${name}`;
+        if (attribute.name.startsWith("class:")) {
+          const expression = unwrapDirectiveExpression(attribute.value);
+          return ` data-wrn-class-${bindIndex++}="${attrEscape(
+            JSON.stringify([attribute.name.slice("class:".length), expression]),
+          )}"`;
+        }
+        if (attribute.name === "data-show") {
+          return ` data-show="${attrEscape(unwrapDirectiveExpression(attribute.value))}"`;
+        }
+        const rendered = ` ${name}="${attrEscape(attribute.value)}"`;
+        return attribute.value.includes("{")
+          ? `${rendered} data-wrn-bind-${bindIndex++}="${attrEscape(
+              JSON.stringify([name, attribute.value]),
+            )}"`
+          : rendered;
+      })
+      .join("");
+    const children = node.children.map(render).join("");
+    if (node.tag === "Static") return children;
+    if (componentTag)
+      return `<div data-component="${attrEscape(node.tag)}"${attrs}>${children}</div>`;
+    if (VOID_ELEMENTS.has(node.tag.toLowerCase())) return `<${node.tag}${attrs}>`;
+    return `<${node.tag}${attrs}>${children}</${node.tag}>`;
+  };
+
+  return nodes.map(render).join("");
+}
+
+function encodeClientControl(value: unknown): string {
+  return Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(value), "utf8").toString("base64");
+}
+
 function renderComponentIfNode(node: IfNode, ctx: CompCtx): string {
   let expression = "``";
 
@@ -2051,7 +2214,14 @@ function renderComponentIfNode(node: IfNode, ctx: CompCtx): string {
         : `(${ctx.resolveExpr(branch.cond)}) ? ${bodyExpression} : ${expression}`;
   }
 
-  return "${" + expression + "}";
+  const definition = encodeClientControl(
+    node.branches.map((branch) => ({
+      cond: branch.cond,
+      body: renderClientControlTemplate(branch.body),
+    })),
+  );
+
+  return `<template data-wrn-if="${definition}"></template>${"${" + expression + "}"}<template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
 }
 
 function renderComponentEachNode(node: EachNode, ctx: CompCtx): string {
@@ -2067,7 +2237,7 @@ function renderComponentEachNode(node: EachNode, ctx: CompCtx): string {
   const body = node.body.map((child) => renderComponentNode(child, childCtx)).join("");
   const empty = node.empty.map((child) => renderComponentNode(child, ctx)).join("");
 
-  return (
+  const serverBody =
     "${(() => { const __wl = Array.isArray(" +
     list +
     ") ? (" +
@@ -2080,8 +2250,18 @@ function renderComponentEachNode(node: EachNode, ctx: CompCtx): string {
     body +
     '`).join("") : `' +
     empty +
-    "`; })()}"
+    "`; })()}";
-  );
+
+  const definition = encodeClientControl({
+    list: node.list,
+    item: node.item,
+    index: node.index,
+    key: node.key,
+    body: renderClientControlTemplate(node.body),
+    empty: renderClientControlTemplate(node.empty),
+  });
+
+  return `<template data-wrn-each="${definition}"></template>${serverBody}<template data-wrn-control-end></template>`;
 }
 
 function serverLoopLocalsAttribute(ctx: CompCtx): string {

packages/compiler/src/index.ts

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ export {
 export { generate } from "./codegen.ts";
 export { generateTargets } from "./targets.ts";
 export { generateBrowserModule } from "./client-codegen.ts";
+export { stripBrowserTypes } from "./browser-transpile.ts";
 export { generateServerFunctionsModule, rpcManifest } from "./server-codegen.ts";
 export { generateDeclarations } from "./type-codegen.ts";
 export { generateStoreBrowserModule, generateStoreModule } from "./store-codegen.ts";

packages/compiler/test/api-block-codegen.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+import { afterEach, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { parse } from "@wrnexus/syntax";
+import { generateTargets } from "../src/targets.ts";
+
+const roots: string[] = [];
+afterEach(() => {
+  for (const root of roots.splice(0)) rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+function browserModule(inner: string): string {
+  return generateTargets(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  client {
+${inner}
+  }
+
+  functions {
+    client async function run(): Promise<void> {
+      const users = await api.searchUsers({ name: "Ajay" })
+      console.log(users)
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main><button @click="run()">go</button></main> }
+}
+`),
+  ).browser;
+}
+
+const BLOCK = `    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name?: string
+          age?: number
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+
+      error {
+        return []
+      }
+    }`;
+
+test("emits an api member that calls the transport with the block's path and method", () => {
+  const generated = browserModule(BLOCK);
+
+  expect(generated).toContain("const api =");
+  expect(generated).toContain("searchUsers");
+  expect(generated).toContain('"/api/users"');
+  expect(generated).toContain('"POST"');
+});
+
+test("declared field types never reach the browser module", () => {
+  // The artifact is written as .mjs and parsed as JavaScript.
+  const generated = browserModule(BLOCK);
+
+  expect(generated).not.toContain("name?: string");
+  expect(generated).not.toContain("age?: number");
+});
+
+test("the emitted module is valid JavaScript", () => {
+  const generated = browserModule(BLOCK);
+
+  expect(() => {
+    new Function(generated.replace(/^\s*import[^\n]*$/gm, "").replace(/\bexport\s+/g, ""));
+  }).not.toThrow();
+});
+
+test("a block without an error section still emits its response body", () => {
+  const generated = browserModule(`    api plainUsers GET /api/users {
+      request {
+        parameters {
+          team: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+    }`);
+
+  expect(generated).toContain("plainUsers");
+  expect(generated).toContain("data.users");
+});
+
+test("type annotations in response/error bodies are erased before emission (B4)", () => {
+  // Every other browser-bound body in the repo passes through eraseFunctionTypes
+  // (see the fn.body call sites in client-codegen.ts ~line 288 and ~371, and
+  // store-codegen.ts); response/error bodies must too, for the same reason:
+  // eraseFunctionTypes strips function-signature annotations (params, return
+  // type, typed catch clauses) so a locally-declared helper function inside a
+  // response/error body no longer ships raw TypeScript into the .mjs artifact.
+  const generated = browserModule(`    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name?: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        function pick(list: string[]): string[] { return list }
+        return pick(data.users)
+      }
+
+      error {
+        function describe(e: unknown): string { return String(e) }
+        return describe(error)
+      }
+    }`);
+
+  expect(generated).not.toContain("list: string[]");
+  expect(generated).not.toContain("): string[] {");
+  expect(generated).not.toContain("e: unknown");
+  expect(generated).not.toContain("): string {");
+  expect(() => {
+    new Function(generated.replace(/^\s*import[^\n]*$/gm, "").replace(/\bexport\s+/g, ""));
+  }).not.toThrow();
+});
+
+test("a page with state api and no client api blocks still reads that state (B5)", () => {
+  // "api" is normally excluded from state/prop destructuring because the
+  // emitted `const api = {...}` binding would shadow it -- but that binding
+  // only exists when the page has client-mode api blocks. Without one, the
+  // exclusion left `api` completely undeclared: a ReferenceError.
+  const generated = generateTargets(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  state {
+    api = "hello"
+  }
+
+  functions {
+    client function run(): void {
+      console.log(api)
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main><button @click="run()">go</button></main> }
+}
+`),
+  ).browser;
+
+  expect(generated).toContain("context.state");
+  expect(() => {
+    new Function(generated.replace(/^\s*import[^\n]*$/gm, "").replace(/\bexport\s+/g, ""));
+  }).not.toThrow();
+});
+
+/**
+ * Builds a browser module whose `run()` function calls api.searchUsers and
+ * reports the outcome through `output.report(...)` so the test can observe
+ * whether the call resolved or rejected without reaching into codegen
+ * internals.
+ */
+function reportingBrowserModule(apiBlock: string): string {
+  return generateTargets(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  client {
+${apiBlock}
+  }
+
+  outputs {
+    report(payload: any)
+  }
+
+  functions {
+    client async function run(): Promise<void> {
+      try {
+        const users = await api.searchUsers({ name: "Ajay" })
+        output.report({ ok: true, users })
+      } catch (e) {
+        output.report({ ok: false, message: String(e && e.message || e) })
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main><button @click="run()">go</button></main> }
+}
+`),
+  ).browser;
+}
+
+async function importBrowserModule(source: string): Promise<any> {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-client-exec-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(root, { recursive: true });
+  const file = join(root, "page.mjs");
+  writeFileSync(file, source);
+  return import(`${file.replace(/\\/g, "/")}?t=${Date.now()}`);
+}
+
+test("a response body error is not swallowed by the error section (client)", async () => {
+  const mod = await importBrowserModule(
+    reportingBrowserModule(`    api searchUsers GET /api/users {
+      request { parameters { name: string } }
+      response {
+        return data.users.missing.length
+      }
+      error {
+        return []
+      }
+    }`),
+  );
+
+  const reports: unknown[] = [];
+  const context = {
+    state: {},
+    props: {},
+    output: { report: (value: unknown) => reports.push(value) },
+    server: {},
+    refs: {},
+    callApi: async () => ({ users: [] }),
+  };
+
+  await mod.__wrnexusClientFunctions.run(context);
+
+  expect(reports).toEqual([{ ok: false, message: expect.any(String) }]);
+  // The error section's own fallback ("[]" / an empty array) must not have
+  // been what the caller observed -- a bug in the response body is a
+  // rejection, not a silently-returned fallback value.
+  expect(reports[0]).not.toEqual({ ok: true, users: [] });
+});
+
+test("a genuine transport failure still runs the error section's fallback (client)", async () => {
+  const mod = await importBrowserModule(
+    reportingBrowserModule(`    api searchUsers GET /api/users {
+      request { parameters { name: string } }
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+      error {
+        return ["fallback"]
+      }
+    }`),
+  );
+
+  const reports: unknown[] = [];
+  const context = {
+    state: {},
+    props: {},
+    output: { report: (value: unknown) => reports.push(value) },
+    server: {},
+    refs: {},
+    callApi: async () => {
+      throw Object.assign(new Error("transport failed"), { status: 500 });
+    },
+  };
+
+  await mod.__wrnexusClientFunctions.run(context);
+
+  expect(reports).toEqual([{ ok: true, users: ["fallback"] }]);
+});
+
+test("a state field named api does not collide with the emitted api object", () => {
+  const generated = generateTargets(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  state {
+    api = ""
+  }
+
+  client {
+${BLOCK}
+  }
+
+  functions {
+    client async function run(): Promise<void> {
+      const users = await api.searchUsers({ name: "Ajay" })
+      console.log(users)
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main><button @click="run()">go</button></main> }
+}
+`),
+  ).browser;
+
+  expect(() => {
+    new Function(generated.replace(/^\s*import[^\n]*$/gm, "").replace(/\bexport\s+/g, ""));
+  }).not.toThrow();
+});

packages/compiler/test/api-block-ssr.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,282 @@
+import { afterEach, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { parse } from "@wrnexus/syntax";
+import { generate } from "../src/codegen.ts";
+
+const ROOT_TSCONFIG = join(import.meta.dir, "../../../tsconfig.json").replace(/\\/g, "/");
+// The repo's own tsc, not a `bunx`-fetched one — `bunx tsc` can resolve an
+// unrelated TypeScript version that doesn't understand this repo's tsconfig
+// options (observed: it rejected `ignoreDeprecations: "6.0"` and couldn't
+// find the `bun` type-definition entry point), unlike `bun run typecheck`,
+// which uses this same local binary.
+const LOCAL_TSC = join(import.meta.dir, "../../../node_modules/.bin/tsc").replace(/\\/g, "/");
+// `types`/`typeRoots` in an extended tsconfig resolve relative to the config
+// file that's actually invoked (our temp one), not the base file — so the
+// ambient `bun` types need an explicit path back to the repo's node_modules.
+const TYPE_ROOTS = join(import.meta.dir, "../../../node_modules/@types").replace(/\\/g, "/");
+
+const roots: string[] = [];
+afterEach(() => {
+  for (const root of roots.splice(0)) rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+/**
+ * Runs the real TypeScript compiler over a generated server module. Proves
+ * the emitted `__wrnexusSsrBindings` annotation (and everything else in the
+ * module) actually type-checks — string-containment assertions alone can't
+ * catch a declared type that omits a field every emitted object literal has.
+ */
+function typecheckGenerated(source: string): { ok: boolean; output: string } {
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-ssr-tsc-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  const file = join(root, "page.ts");
+  writeFileSync(file, source);
+  // Reuse the repo's own tsconfig (paths, lib, types, jsx, ...) so this only
+  // checks the one file we care about instead of hand-duplicating the whole
+  // compiler configuration (and drifting from it over time).
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(root, "tsconfig.json"),
+    JSON.stringify({
+      extends: ROOT_TSCONFIG,
+      compilerOptions: { noEmit: true, typeRoots: [TYPE_ROOTS] },
+      include: ["page.ts"],
+    }),
+  );
+  const result = Bun.spawnSync([LOCAL_TSC, "--project", join(root, "tsconfig.json")], {
+    cwd: root,
+    stdout: "pipe",
+    stderr: "pipe",
+  });
+  const output = `${result.stdout?.toString() ?? ""}${result.stderr?.toString() ?? ""}`;
+  return { ok: result.exitCode === 0, output };
+}
+
+function serverModule(inner: string): string {
+  return generate(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  ssr {
+${inner}
+  }
+
+  view { <main><p api="ssrUsers">loading</p></main> }
+}
+`),
+  );
+}
+
+test("a sectioned ssr block binds the payload to data", () => {
+  const generated = serverModule(`    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users.length
+      }
+    }`);
+
+  expect(generated).toContain("data.users.length");
+});
+
+test("a legacy ssr block is unchanged", () => {
+  const generated = serverModule(`    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      return users.length
+    }`);
+
+  expect(generated).toContain("users.length");
+});
+
+test("an ssr block with an error section emits the error body and binds status/message/data", () => {
+  const generated = serverModule(`    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users.length
+      }
+      error {
+        return message + status + data
+      }
+    }`);
+
+  expect(generated).toContain('"errorBody"');
+  expect(generated).toContain("return message + status + data");
+  expect(generated).toContain("const status = $status");
+  expect(generated).toContain("const message = $message");
+  expect(generated).toContain("const data = $data");
+  expect(generated).toContain("__wrnexusEvalError");
+});
+
+test("an ssr block without an error section emits no catch entry for that binding", () => {
+  const generated = serverModule(`    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users.length
+      }
+    }`);
+
+  expect(generated).not.toContain('"errorBody"');
+});
+
+test("tsc: a sectioned ssr block's generated module has no diagnostics", () => {
+  const generated = serverModule(`    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users.length
+      }
+      error {
+        return message + status + data
+      }
+    }`);
+
+  const { ok, output } = typecheckGenerated(generated);
+
+  expect(output.trim()).toBe("");
+  expect(ok).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("an ssr block used in {#each} with an error section runs the error body on failure", async () => {
+  const generated = generate(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  ssr {
+    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+      error {
+        return ["fallback"]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main>{#each ssrUsers as u}<p>{u}</p>{/each}</main> }
+}
+`),
+  );
+
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-ssr-each-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(root, { recursive: true });
+  const file = join(root, "page.ts");
+  writeFileSync(file, generated);
+
+  const mod = await import(`${file.replace(/\\/g, "/")}?t=${Date.now()}`);
+  const html = await mod.default({
+    req: { url: "http://localhost/", headers: new Headers() },
+    cookies: {},
+    session: {},
+    localStorage: {},
+    __wrnexusCallApi: async () => {
+      throw new Error("boom");
+    },
+  });
+
+  expect(html).toContain("fallback");
+});
+
+test("an ssr block's response body error is not swallowed by the error section", async () => {
+  const generated = generate(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  ssr {
+    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users.missing.length
+      }
+      error {
+        return ["fallback"]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main>{#each ssrUsers as u}<p>{u}</p>{/each}</main> }
+}
+`),
+  );
+
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-ssr-response-throws-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(root, { recursive: true });
+  const file = join(root, "page.ts");
+  writeFileSync(file, generated);
+
+  const mod = await import(`${file.replace(/\\/g, "/")}?t=${Date.now()}`);
+
+  await expect(
+    mod.default({
+      req: { url: "http://localhost/", headers: new Headers() },
+      cookies: {},
+      session: {},
+      localStorage: {},
+      __wrnexusCallApi: async () => ({ users: [] }),
+    }),
+  ).rejects.toThrow();
+});
+
+test("an ssr block still runs the error body on a genuine transport failure", async () => {
+  const generated = generate(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  ssr {
+    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users.length
+      }
+      error {
+        return ["fallback"]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main>{#each ssrUsers as u}<p>{u}</p>{/each}</main> }
+}
+`),
+  );
+
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-ssr-transport-fails-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(root, { recursive: true });
+  const file = join(root, "page.ts");
+  writeFileSync(file, generated);
+
+  const mod = await import(`${file.replace(/\\/g, "/")}?t=${Date.now()}`);
+  const html = await mod.default({
+    req: { url: "http://localhost/", headers: new Headers() },
+    cookies: {},
+    session: {},
+    localStorage: {},
+    __wrnexusCallApi: async () => {
+      throw new Error("boom");
+    },
+  });
+
+  expect(html).toContain("fallback");
+});
+
+test("an ssr block used in {#each} without an error section still propagates a failure", async () => {
+  const generated = generate(
+    parse(`page Repro {
+  ssr {
+    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main>{#each ssrUsers as u}<p>{u}</p>{/each}</main> }
+}
+`),
+  );
+
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "wrnexus-ssr-each-propagate-"));
+  roots.push(root);
+  mkdirSync(root, { recursive: true });
+  const file = join(root, "page.ts");
+  writeFileSync(file, generated);
+
+  const mod = await import(`${file.replace(/\\/g, "/")}?t=${Date.now()}`);
+
+  await expect(
+    mod.default({
+      req: { url: "http://localhost/", headers: new Headers() },
+      cookies: {},
+      session: {},
+      localStorage: {},
+      __wrnexusCallApi: async () => {
+        throw new Error("boom");
+      },
+    }),
+  ).rejects.toThrow("boom");
+});

packages/compiler/test/browser-transpile.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { parse } from "@wrnexus/syntax";
+import { generateTargets } from "../src/targets.ts";
+import { stripBrowserTypes } from "../src/browser-transpile.ts";
+
+/** Build the browser module for a page whose client function body is TypeScript. */
+function browserModuleFor(body: string): string {
+  const source = `page Repro {
+  functions {
+    client async function run(): Promise<void> {
+${body}
+    }
+  }
+
+  view {
+    <main><button @click="run()">go</button></main>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  return generateTargets(parse(source)).browser;
+}
+
+/** The artifact is written as .mjs, so this is how the runtime reads it back. */
+function parsesAsJavaScript(code: string): boolean {
+  try {
+    new Function(code.replace(/^\s*import[^\n]*$/gm, "").replace(/\bexport\s+/g, ""));
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+test("a client function body keeps its TypeScript in the generated module", () => {
+  // Codegen strips the signature's types but copies the body verbatim, which is
+  // what made this easy to miss. Guarding the premise the fix rests on.
+  const generated = browserModuleFor(`      const requestBody: Record<string, unknown> = {}`);
+
+  expect(generated).toContain("const requestBody: Record<string, unknown>");
+  expect(parsesAsJavaScript(generated)).toBe(false);
+});
+
+test("stripping types makes an annotated client function body valid JavaScript", () => {
+  const stripped = stripBrowserTypes(
+    browserModuleFor(`      const requestBody: Record<string, unknown> = {}
+      requestBody.q = "x"`),
+  );
+
+  expect(parsesAsJavaScript(stripped)).toBe(true);
+  expect(stripped).not.toContain("Record<string, unknown>");
+  expect(stripped).toContain("requestBody.q");
+});
+
+test("casts, generics and local interfaces survive stripping", () => {
+  const stripped = stripBrowserTypes(
+    browserModuleFor(`      interface Local { a: string }
+      const names: string[] = ["a"]
+      const typed = { a: "x" } as Local
+      const total = (1 as number) + names.length
+      console.log(typed.a, total)`),
+  );
+
+  expect(parsesAsJavaScript(stripped)).toBe(true);
+  expect(stripped).toContain("console.log");
+  expect(stripped).not.toContain("interface Local");
+});
+
+test("the module's exported bindings are preserved", () => {
+  // A transpile that dropped one of these would break hydration silently.
+  const stripped = stripBrowserTypes(
+    browserModuleFor(`      const value: number = 1
+      console.log(value)`),
+  );
+
+  for (const binding of [
+    "__wrnexusClientFunctions",
+    "__wrnexusClientState",
+    "__wrnexusOutputs",
+    "__wrnexusImportedBindings",
+    "bindClientScope",
+  ]) {
+    expect(stripped).toContain(binding);
+  }
+});
+
+test("a body with no TypeScript is left working", () => {
+  const stripped = stripBrowserTypes(
+    browserModuleFor(`      const plain = { a: 1 }
+      console.log(plain.a)`),
+  );
+
+  expect(parsesAsJavaScript(stripped)).toBe(true);
+  expect(stripped).toContain("console.log");
+});

packages/compiler/test/compiler.test.ts

@@ -1053,6 +1053,23 @@ component Banner {
   expect(output).toContain("Visible");
   expect(output).toContain("Hidden");
 });
+
+test("if and each blocks emit browser control metadata while preserving SSR", () => {
+  const output = generate(
+    parse(`component ClientBlocks {
+      state open = false
+      state items = ["a"]
+      view {
+        {#if open}<p>Open</p>{:else}<p>Closed</p>{/if}
+        {#each items as item}<span>{item}</span>{:empty}<i>Empty</i>{/each}
+      }
+    }`),
+  );
+
+  expect(output).toContain("data-wrn-if=");
+  expect(output).toContain("data-wrn-each=");
+  expect(output).toContain("Array.isArray(items)");
+});
 test("component array props support each blocks", () => {
   const output = generate(
     parse(`

packages/core/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/core",
-  "version": "0.8.9",
+  "version": "0.8.10",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
   "exports": {

packages/core/src/endpoint.ts

@@ -96,7 +96,21 @@ export function defineEndpoint(
       if (definition.auth === "required" && !ctx.user) {
         throw new EndpointError(401, "UNAUTHENTICATED", "Authentication is required.");
       }
-      const input = definition.input ? schemaValue(definition.input, rawInput) : rawInput;
+      // The real HTTP router invokes route handlers as `handler(ctx)` — it never
+      // supplies a second argument. Callers that already have a parsed payload
+      // (unit tests, internal RPC-style calls) may still pass one explicitly, and
+      // that always wins. Otherwise, read the request ourselves: query params for
+      // GET/HEAD, JSON body for everything else.
+      let input: unknown = rawInput;
+      if (definition.input) {
+        const resolvedInput =
+          rawInput !== undefined
+            ? rawInput
+            : ctx.req.method.toUpperCase() === "GET" || ctx.req.method.toUpperCase() === "HEAD"
+              ? Object.fromEntries(ctx.url.searchParams)
+              : await ctx.req.json().catch(() => ({}));
+        input = schemaValue(definition.input, resolvedInput);
+      }
       const rawOutput = await definition.handler(input, ctx);
       const output = definition.output ? schemaValue(definition.output, rawOutput) : rawOutput;
       return output instanceof Response ? output : json({ data: output });

packages/core/test/endpoint-schema.test.ts

@@ -29,3 +29,108 @@ test("typed endpoints unwrap official validation schemas and return bounded vali
   const valid = await endpoint(ctx, { name: "Ada", email: "ada@example.test" });
   expect(await valid.json()).toEqual({ data: { name: "Ada", email: "ada@example.test" } });
 });
+
+// The real HTTP router (packages/dev-server/src/runtime.ts handleApi) invokes route
+// handlers as `handler(ctx)` — it never supplies a second argument. Every test above
+// passes rawInput explicitly, so it never exercises that calling convention. These
+// tests call the endpoint with only a context, matching what actually happens in
+// production, to guard against silently validating `undefined` again.
+const search = v.object({ name: v.string().trim().optional() });
+const searchEndpoint = defineEndpoint<{ name?: string }, { name: string | null }>({
+  input: search,
+  handler(input) {
+    return { name: input.name ?? null };
+  },
+});
+
+test("with no second argument, a GET request reads input from the URL's query string", async () => {
+  const request = new Request("https://example.test/api/search?name=Ada");
+  const ctx = createContext(request, new URL(request.url));
+  const response = await searchEndpoint(ctx);
+  expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+  expect(await response.json()).toEqual({ data: { name: "Ada" } });
+});
+
+test("with no second argument, a POST request reads input from the parsed JSON body", async () => {
+  const request = new Request("https://example.test/api/search", {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ name: "Ada" }),
+  });
+  const ctx = createContext(request, new URL(request.url));
+  const response = await searchEndpoint(ctx);
+  expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+  expect(await response.json()).toEqual({ data: { name: "Ada" } });
+});
+
+test("with no second argument, a malformed or absent POST body falls back without throwing, and schema validation decides the outcome", async () => {
+  const malformedRequest = new Request("https://example.test/api/search", {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+    body: "{not json",
+  });
+  const malformedCtx = createContext(malformedRequest, new URL(malformedRequest.url));
+  const malformedResponse = await searchEndpoint(malformedCtx);
+  // `name` is optional, so an empty resolved input ({}) still validates and succeeds —
+  // the point is that the malformed body did not throw an unhandled parse error.
+  expect(malformedResponse.status).toBe(200);
+  expect(await malformedResponse.json()).toEqual({ data: { name: null } });
+
+  const requiredField = v.object({ name: v.string().min(1) });
+  const requiredEndpoint = defineEndpoint({
+    input: requiredField,
+    handler(input) {
+      return input;
+    },
+  });
+  const emptyRequest = new Request("https://example.test/api/search", { method: "POST" });
+  const emptyCtx = createContext(emptyRequest, new URL(emptyRequest.url));
+  const emptyResponse = await requiredEndpoint(emptyCtx);
+  // With no body at all, resolved input is {} — the schema's own required-field
+  // validation is what turns that into a 400, not a thrown parse error.
+  expect(emptyResponse.status).toBe(400);
+  expect(await emptyResponse.json()).toEqual({
+    error: {
+      code: "VALIDATION_ERROR",
+      message: "Endpoint validation failed.",
+      details: { name: "Required" },
+    },
+  });
+});
+
+// GET query strings travel as text (`URLSearchParams` values are always
+// strings), so a `v.number()` field must come back as a real number, not the
+// string the wire actually carried, or a page declaring `age?: number` on a
+// GET api block would be lying about the type. checkField in
+// @wrnexus/validation coerces via Number(pre) for both optional and required
+// number fields (see packages/validation/src/index.ts); this locks that in
+// end-to-end through defineEndpoint's own GET query-string resolution path.
+test("a GET request coerces a v.number() query param to an actual number", async () => {
+  const ageSchema = v.object({ age: v.number() });
+  const ageEndpoint = defineEndpoint<{ age: number }, { age: number; typeofAge: string }>({
+    input: ageSchema,
+    handler(input) {
+      return { age: input.age, typeofAge: typeof input.age };
+    },
+  });
+  const request = new Request("https://example.test/api/age?age=30");
+  const ctx = createContext(request, new URL(request.url));
+  const response = await ageEndpoint(ctx);
+  expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+  expect(await response.json()).toEqual({ data: { age: 30, typeofAge: "number" } });
+});
+
+test("an explicit rawInput argument still wins and the request is never read", async () => {
+  // A request whose body has already been consumed: if the endpoint tried to read it
+  // again (rather than trusting the explicit rawInput), this would throw.
+  const request = new Request("https://example.test/api/search", {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ name: "ignored-body" }),
+  });
+  await request.json(); // drain the body so a second .json() call would reject
+  const ctx = createContext(request, new URL(request.url));
+  const response = await searchEndpoint(ctx, { name: "Explicit" });
+  expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+  expect(await response.json()).toEqual({ data: { name: "Explicit" } });
+});

packages/csr/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/csr",
-  "version": "0.8.21",
+  "version": "0.8.25",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
   "exports": {

packages/csr/src/index.ts

@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ export function getComponentControllerRuntime(development = false): string {
   var emitPinInputEvent = bridge.emitPinInputEvent;
   var parseScopeDecl = bridge.parseScopeDecl;
   var warnOnce = bridge.warn || function () {};
+  // The extracted sections use these the same way the core runtime does, and
+  // this bundle is a separate IIFE, so it needs its own copies.
+  function hasOwn(target, key) {
+    return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(target, key);
+  }
+  function toArray(value) {
+    return Array.prototype.slice.call(value);
+  }
 ${sections}
   function hydrate(root) {
     var host = root || document;

packages/csr/src/nav-runtime.ts

@@ -368,15 +368,10 @@ export const NAV_RUNTIME = String.raw`
   }
 
   function syncI18n(nextDocument) {
-    var script = Array.prototype.find.call(
+    var script = nextDocument.querySelector('script[type="application/json"][data-wrn-i18n]');
-      nextDocument.querySelectorAll("script:not([src])"),
-      function (node) { return /^window\.__wrnI18n=/.test(String(node.textContent || "").trim()); },
-    );
     if (!script) return;
-    var match = /^window\.__wrnI18n=([\s\S]*);\s*$/.exec(String(script.textContent || "").trim());
-    if (!match) return;
     try {
-      var incoming = JSON.parse(match[1]);
+      var incoming = JSON.parse(String(script.textContent || "{}"));
       var current = window.__wrnI18n || {};
       var translator = current.t;
       var setter = current.set;

packages/csr/src/reactive-runtime.ts

@@ -26,58 +26,78 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
   var behaviorObserver;
   var clientModuleCache = new Map();
 
+  /*
+   * Two builtin chains the runtime reaches for constantly. Aliasing them is
+   * not only shorter: hasOwn keeps prototype keys from reading as data, and
+   * toArray is needed because a NodeList is not an Array.
+   */
+  function hasOwn(target, key) {
+    return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(target, key);
+  }
+
+  function toArray(value) {
+    return Array.prototype.slice.call(value);
+  }
+
+  /*
+   * data-wrn-class-* and data-wrn-bind-* both carry a JSON ["name","expression"]
+   * pair. Malformed markup yields null so every caller bails the same way
+   * rather than each repeating the parse and the shape check.
+   */
+  function pairBinding(value) {
+    var parsed;
+
+    try {
+      parsed = JSON.parse(value);
+    } catch (error) {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    return parsed && parsed.length === 2 ? parsed : null;
+  }
+
   /*
    * Globals the expression engine resolves for client code. Kept as explicit
-   * tables rather than falling through to window[name]: an implicit fallback
+   * lists rather than falling through to window[name]: an implicit fallback
    * would let any expression reach every global on the page (and would make a
    * typo silently resolve to some unrelated window property) -- these lists
    * say exactly what client code may reach.
    *
-   * dialogGlobals must be bound to window or the browser throws
+   * Prototype-less so a name like "toString" or "constructor" is a miss
-   * "Illegal invocation" when they are called detached.
+   * rather than a hit on Object.prototype.
    */
-  var dialogGlobals = {
+  function nameSet(names) {
-    alert: 1,
+    var set = Object.create(null);
-    confirm: 1,
-    prompt: 1,
-    fetch: 1,
-    print: 1,
-    open: 1,
-    scrollTo: 1,
-    scrollBy: 1,
-    matchMedia: 1,
-    getComputedStyle: 1,
-    structuredClone: 1,
-    queueMicrotask: 1,
-    btoa: 1,
-    atob: 1,
-  };
 
-  // Language builtins. Wrapped in thunks so referencing one that a given
+    names.split(" ").forEach(function (name) {
-  // engine lacks cannot throw at table-definition time.
+      set[name] = 1;
-  var jsGlobals = {
+    });
-    Object: function () { return Object; },
+
-    Boolean: function () { return Boolean; },
+    return set;
-    RegExp: function () { return RegExp; },
+  }
-    Promise: function () { return typeof Promise === "undefined" ? undefined : Promise; },
+
-    Set: function () { return typeof Set === "undefined" ? undefined : Set; },
+  /*
-    Map: function () { return typeof Map === "undefined" ? undefined : Map; },
+   * Called with window as the receiver. Detached, the browser throws
-    Error: function () { return Error; },
+   * "Illegal invocation" for these.
-    Symbol: function () { return typeof Symbol === "undefined" ? undefined : Symbol; },
+   */
-    BigInt: function () { return typeof BigInt === "undefined" ? undefined : BigInt; },
+  var boundWindowGlobals = nameSet(
-    Intl: function () { return typeof Intl === "undefined" ? undefined : Intl; },
+    "alert confirm prompt fetch print open scrollTo scrollBy matchMedia" +
-    parseInt: function () { return parseInt; },
+      " getComputedStyle structuredClone queueMicrotask btoa atob" +
-    parseFloat: function () { return parseFloat; },
+      " setTimeout clearTimeout setInterval clearInterval" +
-    isNaN: function () { return isNaN; },
+      " requestAnimationFrame cancelAnimationFrame",
-    isFinite: function () { return isFinite; },
+  );
-    encodeURIComponent: function () { return encodeURIComponent; },
+
-    decodeURIComponent: function () { return decodeURIComponent; },
+  /*
-    encodeURI: function () { return encodeURI; },
+   * Language builtins and other realm globals, read off globalThis. Naming
-    decodeURI: function () { return decodeURI; },
+   * them rather than referencing them directly means one an engine lacks
-    NaN: function () { return NaN; },
+   * resolves to undefined instead of throwing where the table is defined.
-    Infinity: function () { return Infinity; },
+   */
-    undefined: function () { return undefined; },
+  var ambientGlobals = nameSet(
-  };
+    "Object Boolean RegExp Promise Set Map Error Symbol BigInt Intl parseInt" +
+      " parseFloat isNaN isFinite encodeURIComponent decodeURIComponent" +
+      " encodeURI decodeURI NaN Infinity undefined Array Number String Math" +
+      " JSON Date URL",
+  );
 
   /*
    * toast(...) -- raise a notification from any client expression.
@@ -154,27 +174,12 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
   if (!window.toast) window.toast = toastApi;
 
   // Read straight off window, no binding needed (objects, not functions).
-  var windowGlobals = {
+  var windowGlobals = nameSet(
-    localStorage: 1,
+    "localStorage sessionStorage screen performance crypto CustomEvent Event" +
-    sessionStorage: 1,
+      " FormData URLSearchParams AbortController Notification" +
-    screen: 1,
+      " IntersectionObserver ResizeObserver MutationObserver devicePixelRatio" +
-    performance: 1,
+      " innerWidth innerHeight scrollX scrollY location history navigator",
-    crypto: 1,
+  );
-    CustomEvent: 1,
-    Event: 1,
-    FormData: 1,
-    URLSearchParams: 1,
-    AbortController: 1,
-    Notification: 1,
-    IntersectionObserver: 1,
-    ResizeObserver: 1,
-    MutationObserver: 1,
-    devicePixelRatio: 1,
-    innerWidth: 1,
-    innerHeight: 1,
-    scrollX: 1,
-    scrollY: 1,
-  };
 
   function reportDiagnostic(code, message, element, detail) {
     var payload = {
@@ -1071,7 +1076,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     var serverProxy = new Proxy({}, {
       get: function (_target, property) {
         return function () {
-          return callServerFunction(componentRpcName, String(property), Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments));
+          return callServerFunction(componentRpcName, String(property), toArray(arguments));
         };
       },
     });
@@ -1111,7 +1116,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       if (name === "server") return serverProxy;
       if (name === "props") return propsProxy;
       if (name === "refs") return refsProxy;
-      if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(moduleBindings, name)) return moduleBindings[name];
+      if (hasOwn(moduleBindings, name)) return moduleBindings[name];
       if (name === "$emit") {
         return function (eventName, detail) {
           return dispatchComponentEvent(componentEventTarget, eventName, detail);
@@ -1120,26 +1125,10 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       if (name === "window") return window;
       if (name === "document") return document;
       if (name === "console") return console;
-      if (name === "Array") return Array;
-      if (name === "Number") return Number;
-      if (name === "String") return String;
-      if (name === "Math") return Math;
-      if (name === "JSON") return JSON;
-      if (name === "Date") return Date;
-      if (name === "URL") return URL;
-      if (name === "location") return window.location;
-      if (name === "history") return window.history;
-      if (name === "navigator") return window.navigator;
       if (name === "$route" || name === "route") {
         if (currentRenderer) routeValue.subscribe(currentRenderer);
         return routeValue.get();
       }
-      if (name === "setTimeout") return window.setTimeout.bind(window);
-      if (name === "clearTimeout") return window.clearTimeout.bind(window);
-      if (name === "setInterval") return window.setInterval.bind(window);
-      if (name === "clearInterval") return window.clearInterval.bind(window);
-      if (name === "requestAnimationFrame") return window.requestAnimationFrame.bind(window);
-      if (name === "cancelAnimationFrame") return window.cancelAnimationFrame.bind(window);
       /*
        * Ordinary browser and language globals.
        *
@@ -1156,11 +1145,11 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
        * lacks one of these does not break the rest.
        */
       if (name === "toast") return toastApi;
-      if (dialogGlobals[name] && typeof window[name] === "function") {
+      if (boundWindowGlobals[name] && typeof window[name] === "function") {
         return window[name].bind(window);
       }
-      if (jsGlobals[name]) {
+      if (ambientGlobals[name]) {
-        var builtin = jsGlobals[name]();
+        var builtin = globalThis[name];
         if (builtin !== undefined) return builtin;
       }
       if (windowGlobals[name]) {
@@ -1174,7 +1163,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     }
 
     function readScope(name) {
-      if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(computedDefinitions, name)) {
+      if (hasOwn(computedDefinitions, name)) {
         if (computing.has(name)) {
           reportDiagnostic("WRN-COMPUTED-CYCLE", "Computed value '" + name + "' has a dependency cycle.", el);
           return undefined;
@@ -1191,18 +1180,18 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
         if (currentRenderer) sig.subscribe(currentRenderer);
         return sig.get();
       }
-      if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(behaviorFunctions, name)) {
+      if (hasOwn(behaviorFunctions, name)) {
         return behaviorFunctions[name];
       }
       return readGlobal(name);
     }
 
     function peekScope(name) {
-      if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(computedDefinitions, name)) {
+      if (hasOwn(computedDefinitions, name)) {
         return readScope(name);
       }
       if (signals[name]) return signals[name].get();
-      if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(behaviorFunctions, name)) {
+      if (hasOwn(behaviorFunctions, name)) {
         return behaviorFunctions[name];
       }
       return readGlobal(name);
@@ -1265,7 +1254,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
 
     function evalExpr(expr, locals) {
       return evaluateExpression(expr, function (name) {
-        if (locals && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(locals, name)) {
+        if (locals && hasOwn(locals, name)) {
           return locals[name];
         }
         return readScope(name);
@@ -1276,6 +1265,8 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       source,
       locals,
     ) {
+      locals = locals || Object.create(null);
+
       return batchUpdates(function () {
         var statements =
           splitStatements(source);
@@ -1297,8 +1288,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
             function (name) {
               if (
                 locals &&
-                Object.prototype
+                hasOwn(
-                  .hasOwnProperty.call(
                     locals,
                     name,
                   )
@@ -1311,8 +1301,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
             function (name, value) {
               if (
                 locals &&
-                Object.prototype
+                hasOwn(
-                  .hasOwnProperty.call(
                     locals,
                     name,
                   )
@@ -1328,6 +1317,9 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
                 locals,
               );
             },
+            function (name, value) {
+              locals[name] = value;
+            },
           );
 
           if (result.returned) {
@@ -1388,6 +1380,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
         state: stateProxy,
         output: outputProxy,
         server: serverProxy,
+        callApi: wrnexusCallApi,
         props: propsProxy,
         refs: refsProxy,
       };
@@ -1501,19 +1494,13 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       }
       return type + ":" + String(value);
     }
-    function fillMustache(str, itemEval) {
-      return str.replace(/\{\{\s*([^}]+?)\s*\}\}|\{([^{}]+)\}/g, function (_, d, s) {
-        var e = (d || s).trim();
-        try { return String(itemEval(e)); } catch (err) { return ""; }
-      });
-    }
     function hydrateItem(
       root,
       locals,
     ) {
       function localRead(name) {
         if (
-          Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(
+          hasOwn(
             locals,
             name,
           )
@@ -1597,7 +1584,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
         if (node !== root && insideNestedLoop(node)) return;
 
         var attributes =
-          Array.prototype.slice.call(
+          toArray(
             node.attributes,
           );
 
@@ -1611,24 +1598,21 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
           if (
             attribute.name === "data-text"
           ) {
-            try {
+            (function (textNode, textExpression) {
-              var textValue =
+              var runText = reactive(function () {
-                itemEval(attribute.value);
+                try {
-
+                  var textValue = itemEval(textExpression);
-              node.textContent =
+                  textNode.textContent = textValue == null ? "" : String(textValue);
-                textValue == null
+                } catch (error) {
-                  ? ""
+                  console.error(
-                  : String(textValue);
+                    "[wrnexus] data-for text binding failed for '" + textExpression + "'",
-            } catch (error) {
+                    error,
-              console.error(
+                  );
-                "[wrnexus] data-for text binding failed for '" +
+                  textNode.textContent = "";
-                  attribute.value +
+                }
-                  "'",
+              });
-                error,
+              runText();
-              );
+            })(node, attribute.value);
-
-              node.textContent = "";
-            }
 
             return;
           }
@@ -1642,28 +1626,12 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
               "data-wrn-class-",
             ) === 0
           ) {
-            var classBinding;
+            var classBinding = pairBinding(attribute.value);
 
-            try {
+            if (!classBinding) return;
-              classBinding = JSON.parse(
-                attribute.value,
-              );
-            } catch (_) {
-              return;
-            }
 
-            if (
+            var className = classBinding[0];
-              !classBinding ||
+            var classExpression = classBinding[1];
-              classBinding.length !== 2
-            ) {
-              return;
-            }
-
-            var className =
-              classBinding[0];
-
-            var classExpression =
-              classBinding[1];
 
             var classEnabled = false;
 
@@ -1693,28 +1661,13 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
             ) === 0
           ) {
             node.removeAttribute(attribute.name);
-            var binding;
 
-            try {
+            var binding = pairBinding(attribute.value);
-              binding = JSON.parse(
-                attribute.value,
-              );
-            } catch (_) {
-              return;
-            }
 
-            if (
+            if (!binding) return;
-              !binding ||
-              binding.length !== 2
-            ) {
-              return;
-            }
 
-            var attributeName =
+            var attributeName = binding[0];
-              binding[0];
+            var attributeTemplate = binding[1];
-
-            var attributeTemplate =
-              binding[1];
 
             /*
              * Reactive, not resolved once. The expression can read component
@@ -1782,7 +1735,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
 
                 eventLocals.event = event;
                 eventLocals.$event = event;
-                eventLocals.payload = event && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(event, "detail") ? event.detail : undefined;
+                eventLocals.payload = event && hasOwn(event, "detail") ? event.detail : undefined;
 
                 try {
                   runStmt(
@@ -1934,8 +1887,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
 
       // Hand every nested loop its own renderer, with this item in scope.
       if (root.querySelectorAll) {
-        Array.prototype.slice
+        toArray(root.querySelectorAll("[data-for]"))
-          .call(root.querySelectorAll("[data-for]"))
           .forEach(function (nested) {
             // Only the outermost nested templates: deeper ones are set up by
             // their own parent when it renders.
@@ -1954,6 +1906,155 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       }
     }
 
+    // Compiled if/each blocks keep their SSR result in the custom
+    // element and carry an inert, base64-encoded template for later browser
+    // updates.  The first reactive pass only subscribes to dependencies, so
+    // hydration does not throw away server DOM. Subsequent state changes
+    // materialize the appropriate branch/rows and hydrate their bindings.
+    function decodeControlDefinition(value) {
+      try {
+        var binary = window.atob(value || "");
+        var bytes = new Uint8Array(binary.length);
+        for (var index = 0; index < binary.length; index++) {
+          bytes[index] = binary.charCodeAt(index);
+        }
+        return JSON.parse(new TextDecoder("utf-8").decode(bytes));
+      } catch (error) {
+        reportDiagnostic("WRN-CONTROL-DECODE", "Failed to decode a client control block.", el, error);
+        return null;
+      }
+    }
+
+    function setupControlBlock(block, outerLocals) {
+      if (!block || block.__wrnexusControl || (!outerLocals && !owns(block))) return;
+      block.__wrnexusControl = true;
+      var inherited = outerLocals || decodeLoopLocals(block);
+      var rangeEnd = null;
+      if (block.tagName && block.tagName.toLowerCase() === "template") {
+        var depth = 0;
+        for (var sibling = block.nextSibling; sibling; sibling = sibling.nextSibling) {
+          if (sibling.nodeType !== 1 || sibling.tagName.toLowerCase() !== "template") continue;
+          if (sibling.hasAttribute("data-wrn-if") || sibling.hasAttribute("data-wrn-each")) depth++;
+          if (sibling.hasAttribute("data-wrn-control-end")) {
+            if (depth === 0) { rangeEnd = sibling; break; }
+            depth--;
+          }
+        }
+        if (!rangeEnd) return;
+      }
+      var ifDefinition = block.hasAttribute("data-wrn-if")
+        ? decodeControlDefinition(block.getAttribute("data-wrn-if"))
+        : null;
+      var eachDefinition = block.hasAttribute("data-wrn-each")
+        ? decodeControlDefinition(block.getAttribute("data-wrn-each"))
+        : null;
+      /*
+       * Skip the first reactive pass only when hydrating server DOM.
+       *
+       * A block that arrived with the server HTML is already rendered, so
+       * redrawing on the first pass would discard it. A block created later by
+       * an outer block's rerender has no server DOM — outerLocals is how it
+       * receives its enclosing loop's scope, and is only ever set on that path.
+       * Skipping its first pass leaves it permanently empty, because its
+       * dependencies never change again to trigger a second one.
+       */
+      var firstRun = !outerLocals;
+
+      function controlRead(name) {
+        return hasOwn(inherited, name) ? inherited[name] : readScope(name);
+      }
+
+      function controlEval(expression, locals) {
+        return evaluateExpression(expression, function (name) {
+          return locals && hasOwn(locals, name)
+            ? locals[name]
+            : controlRead(name);
+        });
+      }
+
+      function clearControlContent() {
+        if (!rangeEnd) { block.innerHTML = ""; return; }
+        while (block.nextSibling && block.nextSibling !== rangeEnd) {
+          block.parentNode.removeChild(block.nextSibling);
+        }
+      }
+
+      function appendControlContent(markup, locals) {
+        var template = document.createElement("template");
+        template.innerHTML = markup || "";
+        var fragment = template.content;
+        var elements = toArray(fragment.childNodes).filter(function (node) {
+          return node.nodeType === 1;
+        });
+        if (rangeEnd) block.parentNode.insertBefore(fragment, rangeEnd);
+        else block.appendChild(fragment);
+        elements.forEach(function (node) { hydrateItem(node, locals || inherited); });
+        elements.forEach(function (node) {
+          var controls = [];
+          if (node.matches && node.matches("[data-wrn-if],[data-wrn-each]")) controls.push(node);
+          if (node.querySelectorAll) Array.prototype.push.apply(controls, node.querySelectorAll("[data-wrn-if],[data-wrn-each]"));
+          controls.forEach(function (nested) {
+            if (nested.__wrnexusControl) return;
+            /*
+             * Run the new block now rather than waiting for a sweep.
+             *
+             * reactive() only registers an effect; effects execute when
+             * renderAll sweeps the list. A state change runs just the affected
+             * effects, so a block registered during that rerender is queued and
+             * never invoked -- it would stay empty for the life of the page.
+             */
+            var runNested = setupControlBlock(nested, locals || inherited);
+            if (runNested) runNested();
+          });
+        });
+      }
+
+      return reactive(function () {
+        /*
+         * A block removed from the DOM keeps its effect in the renderers list,
+         * so a later sweep would run it against a detached node and throw --
+         * aborting the sweep, leaving every later effect unrendered. Skip it.
+         */
+        if (!block.parentNode) return;
+        if (ifDefinition) {
+          var selected = null;
+          for (var branchIndex = 0; branchIndex < ifDefinition.length; branchIndex++) {
+            var branch = ifDefinition[branchIndex];
+            if (branch.cond === null || !!controlEval(branch.cond, inherited)) {
+              selected = branch;
+              break;
+            }
+          }
+          if (firstRun) { firstRun = false; return; }
+          clearControlContent();
+          appendControlContent(selected ? selected.body : "", inherited);
+          return;
+        }
+
+        if (!eachDefinition) return;
+        var list = controlEval(eachDefinition.list, inherited);
+        if (!Array.isArray(list)) list = [];
+        if (firstRun) { firstRun = false; return; }
+        clearControlContent();
+        if (list.length === 0) {
+          appendControlContent(eachDefinition.empty || "", inherited);
+          return;
+        }
+        for (var itemIndex = 0; itemIndex < list.length; itemIndex++) {
+          var rowLocals = {};
+          Object.keys(inherited).forEach(function (name) { rowLocals[name] = inherited[name]; });
+          rowLocals[eachDefinition.item] = list[itemIndex];
+          if (eachDefinition.index) rowLocals[eachDefinition.index] = itemIndex;
+          appendControlContent(eachDefinition.body || "", rowLocals);
+        }
+      });
+    }
+
+    toArray(el.querySelectorAll("[data-wrn-if],[data-wrn-each]")).forEach(function (block) {
+      if (block.parentElement && block.parentElement.closest("[data-wrn-if],[data-wrn-each]")) return;
+      setupControlBlock(block, null);
+    });
+
     /*
      * Set up one [data-for] template. Extracted from an inline forEach so it
      * can recurse: hydrateItem calls it for every loop nested inside a rendered
@@ -1981,7 +2082,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       }
 
       function loopRead(name) {
-        if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(inherited, name)) {
+        if (hasOwn(inherited, name)) {
           return inherited[name];
         }
         return readScope(name);
@@ -2154,7 +2255,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
               rawKey = evaluateExpression(
                 keyExpression,
                 function (name) {
-                  return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(keyedLocals, name)
+                  return hasOwn(keyedLocals, name)
                     ? keyedLocals[name]
                     : loopRead(name);
                 },
@@ -2227,8 +2328,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     
     }
 
-    Array.prototype.slice
+    toArray(el.querySelectorAll("[data-for]"))
-      .call(el.querySelectorAll("[data-for]"))
       .forEach(function (tpl) {
         // Only top-level templates here; nested ones are connected by the item
         // that contains them, once it has values to give them.
@@ -2324,24 +2424,18 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     // Conditional class bindings emitted as:
     // data-wrn-class-*='["class-name","expression"]'
     var classBindNodes = [el].concat(
-      Array.prototype.slice.call(el.querySelectorAll("*")),
+      toArray(el.querySelectorAll("*")),
     );
 
     classBindNodes.forEach(function (node) {
       if (!owns(node)) return;
 
-      Array.prototype.slice.call(node.attributes).forEach(function (marker) {
+      toArray(node.attributes).forEach(function (marker) {
         if (marker.name.indexOf("data-wrn-class-") !== 0) return;
 
-        var binding;
+        var binding = pairBinding(marker.value);
 
-        try {
+        if (!binding) return;
-          binding = JSON.parse(marker.value);
-        } catch (e) {
-          return;
-        }
-
-        if (!binding || binding.length !== 2) return;
 
         var className = binding[0];
         var expression = binding[1];
@@ -2370,7 +2464,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     // [attributeName, originalTemplate], preserving an SSR value while allowing
     // state changes to update type, aria-*, class, href, and other attributes.
     var bindNodes = [el].concat(
-      Array.prototype.slice.call(
+      toArray(
         el.querySelectorAll("*"),
       ),
     );
@@ -2378,8 +2472,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     bindNodes.forEach(function (node) {
       if (!owns(node)) return;
 
-      Array.prototype.slice
+      toArray(node.attributes)
-        .call(node.attributes)
         .forEach(function (marker) {
           if (
             marker.name.indexOf(
@@ -2390,22 +2483,10 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
           }
 
           node.removeAttribute(marker.name);
-          var binding;
 
-          try {
+          var binding = pairBinding(marker.value);
-            binding = JSON.parse(
-              marker.value,
-            );
-          } catch (error) {
-            return;
-          }
 
-          if (
+          if (!binding) return;
-            !binding ||
-            binding.length !== 2
-          ) {
-            return;
-          }
 
           var name = binding[0];
           var template = binding[1];
@@ -2497,10 +2578,10 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     }
 
     // Event handlers on elements, window, and document.
-    var nodes = [el].concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(el.querySelectorAll("*")));
+    var nodes = [el].concat(toArray(el.querySelectorAll("*")));
     nodes.forEach(function (node) {
       if (!owns(node)) return;
-      Array.prototype.slice.call(node.attributes).forEach(function (attr) {
+      toArray(node.attributes).forEach(function (attr) {
         if (attr.name.indexOf("data-on-") !== 0) return;
 
         var rawName = attr.name.slice("data-on-".length);
@@ -2527,7 +2608,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
 
           locals.event = event;
           locals.$event = event;
-          locals.payload = event && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(event, "detail") ? event.detail : undefined;
+          locals.payload = event && hasOwn(event, "detail") ? event.detail : undefined;
 
           try {
             runStmt(
@@ -2576,8 +2657,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     // function only exists out here. The compiler emits these as data-wrn-out-* so the
     // two cases stay distinguishable, and this scope claims every one that
     // sits on a component it directly mounts.
-    Array.prototype.slice
+    toArray(el.querySelectorAll("[data-wrn-events]"))
-      .call(el.querySelectorAll("[data-wrn-events]"))
       .forEach(function (node) {
         var componentRoot = closestScope(node);
         if (!componentRoot || componentRoot === el) return;
@@ -2594,7 +2674,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
           node.__wrnexusOutputHandlers ||
           (node.__wrnexusOutputHandlers = {});
 
-        Array.prototype.slice.call(node.attributes).forEach(function (attr) {
+        toArray(node.attributes).forEach(function (attr) {
           if (attr.name.indexOf("data-wrn-out-") !== 0) return;
 
           var outName = attr.name.slice("data-wrn-out-".length);
@@ -2632,7 +2712,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
             locals.event = event;
             locals.$event = event;
             locals.payload =
-              event && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(event, "detail")
+              event && hasOwn(event, "detail")
                 ? event.detail
                 : undefined;
             try {
@@ -2654,16 +2734,14 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     // Prop expressions belong to the parent that mounted the component. The
     // server forwards these markers onto the rendered child root; evaluate
     // them here and write changes into the child's prop signals.
-    Array.prototype.slice
+    toArray(el.querySelectorAll("*"))
-      .call(el.querySelectorAll("*"))
       .filter(isScopeRoot)
       .forEach(function (node) {
         if (!node.parentNode || ownerScope(node.parentNode) !== el) return;
-        Array.prototype.slice.call(node.attributes).forEach(function (attr) {
+        toArray(node.attributes).forEach(function (attr) {
           if (attr.name.indexOf("data-wrn-prop-bind-") !== 0) return;
-          var binding;
+          var binding = pairBinding(attr.value);
-          try { binding = JSON.parse(attr.value); } catch (_) { return; }
+          if (!binding) return;
-          if (!binding || binding.length !== 2) return;
           var propName = binding[0];
           var template = binding[1];
           reactive(function () {
@@ -3017,8 +3095,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     var host = root && root.querySelectorAll ? root : document;
     anchoredWriting = true;
     try {
-      Array.prototype.slice
+      toArray(host.querySelectorAll(ANCHORED_SELECTOR))
-        .call(host.querySelectorAll(ANCHORED_SELECTOR))
         .forEach(clampAnchored);
     } finally {
       // Released on a timer, not requestAnimationFrame. rAF does not fire in
@@ -3552,8 +3629,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     // therefore no client-side binding to retain; consume its compiler markers
     // separately from component hydration.
     if (host === document || host === document.documentElement) {
-      Array.prototype.slice
+      toArray(document.documentElement.attributes)
-        .call(document.documentElement.attributes)
         .forEach(function (attribute) {
           if (attribute.name.indexOf("data-wrn-bind-") === 0) {
             document.documentElement.removeAttribute(attribute.name);
@@ -4171,6 +4247,72 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     });
   }
 
+  /*
+   * Transport for compiled api blocks.
+   *
+   * Only the request and the failure shape live here. A block's response and
+   * error bodies are page code, so they are emitted into the browser module
+   * and applied by the caller.
+   */
+  function readCsrfToken() {
+    var meta = document.querySelector('meta[name="wrnexus-csrf"]');
+    if (meta) return meta.getAttribute("content") || "";
+    var match = /(?:^|;\s*)wrn-csrf=([^;]+)/.exec(document.cookie || "");
+    return match ? decodeURIComponent(match[1]) : "";
+  }
+
+  function wrnexusCallApi(path, method, input) {
+    var verb = String(method || "GET").toUpperCase();
+    var values = input || {};
+    var url = path;
+    var headers = { accept: "application/json" };
+    var init = { method: verb, credentials: "same-origin", headers: headers };
+
+    if (verb === "GET" || verb === "HEAD") {
+      var query = [];
+      Object.keys(values).forEach(function (key) {
+        var value = values[key];
+        // An omitted filter must not become "name=undefined".
+        if (value === undefined || value === null || value === "") return;
+        query.push(encodeURIComponent(key) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(String(value)));
+      });
+      if (query.length) url = path + "?" + query.join("&");
+    } else {
+      headers["content-type"] = "application/json";
+      headers["x-csrf-token"] = readCsrfToken();
+      init.body = JSON.stringify(values);
+    }
+
+    return fetch(url, init).then(function (response) {
+      // A 2xx with no body (204/205, or a genuinely empty response) is a
+      // success, not a parse failure -- the failure table only calls for the
+      // error path on non-2xx, network failure, or an unparseable body.
+      if (response.ok && (response.status === 204 || response.status === 205)) {
+        return undefined;
+      }
+      return response.json().then(
+        function (data) {
+          if (response.ok) return data;
+          var message =
+            data && data.error ? String(data.error) : "Request failed with " + response.status;
+          var failure = new Error(message);
+          failure.status = response.status;
+          failure.data = data;
+          throw failure;
+        },
+        function () {
+          if (response.ok) return undefined;
+          var failure = new Error("Response was not valid JSON");
+          failure.status = response.status;
+          failure.data = undefined;
+          throw failure;
+        },
+      );
+    });
+  }
+
+  window.__wrnexusCallApi = wrnexusCallApi;
+
   function dispatchComponentEvent(root, name, detail) {
     if (!root || !name) return null;
     var EventConstructor =
@@ -4195,7 +4337,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
 
   function emitPinInputEvent(root, name, extra) {
     var hidden = root.querySelector("[data-pin-value]");
-    var cells = Array.prototype.slice.call(root.querySelectorAll("[data-pin-cell]"));
+    var cells = toArray(root.querySelectorAll("[data-pin-cell]"));
     var value = hidden ? hidden.value : "";
     var detail = {
       component: "PinInput",
@@ -4217,7 +4359,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
   /*__WRNEXUS_CONTROLLERS_PIN_START__*/
   function setupPinInputController(root) {
     if (!root || root.__wrnexusPinInputController) return;
-    var cells = Array.prototype.slice.call(root.querySelectorAll("[data-pin-cell]"));
+    var cells = toArray(root.querySelectorAll("[data-pin-cell]"));
     var hidden = root.querySelector("[data-pin-value]");
     var clearButton = root.querySelector("[data-pin-clear]");
     var patternSource = root.getAttribute("data-pattern") || "[0-9]";
@@ -4651,12 +4793,68 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       : null;
   }
 
+  /*
+   * Parse a while or for statement into its parts.
+   *
+   * Returns null for anything else so the caller falls through to the other
+   * statement forms. A for header is split on top-level semicolons only, so a
+   * semicolon inside a call argument or a string does not break it.
+   */
+  function parseLoopStatement(source) {
+    source = String(source || "").trim();
+
+    var kind = null;
+
+    if (source.slice(0, 5) === "while" && !/[A-Za-z0-9_$]/.test(source.charAt(5))) {
+      kind = "while";
+    } else if (source.slice(0, 3) === "for" && !/[A-Za-z0-9_$]/.test(source.charAt(3))) {
+      kind = "for";
+    } else {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    var index = skipStatementWhitespace(source, kind === "while" ? 5 : 3);
+
+    if (source.charAt(index) !== "(") return null;
+
+    var headerEnd = findClosingDelimiter(source, index, "(", ")");
+
+    if (headerEnd < 0) throw new Error("Unclosed " + kind + " header");
+
+    var header = source.slice(index + 1, headerEnd);
+
+    index = skipStatementWhitespace(source, headerEnd + 1);
+
+    if (source.charAt(index) !== "{") throw new Error("Expected a block after " + kind);
+
+    var bodyEnd = findClosingDelimiter(source, index, "{", "}");
+
+    if (bodyEnd < 0) throw new Error("Unclosed " + kind + " body");
+
+    var body = source.slice(index + 1, bodyEnd);
+
+    if (kind === "while") {
+      return { init: null, condition: header.trim(), step: null, body: body };
+    }
+
+    var parts = splitTopLevel(header, ";");
+
+    if (parts.length !== 3) throw new Error("A for header needs three parts");
+
+    return {
+      init: parts[0].trim(),
+      condition: parts[1].trim(),
+      step: parts[2].trim(),
+      body: body,
+    };
+  }
   function runStatement(
     stmt,
     evalExpr,
     read,
     write,
     runBlock,
+    declare,
   ) {
     stmt = String(stmt || "").trim();
 
@@ -4707,6 +4905,60 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       };
     }
 
+    /*
+     * A loop body is author-written and runs in the browser, so a mistaken
+     * condition would freeze the tab. The cap keeps a runaway loop from
+     * hanging the page; it is far above any list a view renders.
+     */
+    var loop = parseLoopStatement(stmt);
+
+    if (loop) {
+      var guard = 0;
+
+      if (loop.init) {
+        runStatement(loop.init, evalExpr, read, write, runBlock, declare);
+      }
+
+      while (!loop.condition || !!evalExpr(loop.condition)) {
+        if (++guard > 100000) break;
+
+        var outcome = runBlock(loop.body);
+
+        if (outcome && outcome.returned) return outcome;
+
+        if (loop.step) {
+          runStatement(loop.step, evalExpr, read, write, runBlock, declare);
+        }
+      }
+
+      return { returned: false, value: undefined };
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * A declaration binds a local, then falls through to the assignment
+     * branch below.
+     *
+     * Declaring first is what makes it local: an unknown name reaching
+     * writeScope becomes a signal and triggers a render sweep, so a var
+     * inside a shared function called during a render would loop forever.
+     * Once the name exists in locals, read and write both stay there.
+     */
+    var declaration = stmt.match(
+      /^(?:var|let|const)\s+([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*[\s\S]*)$/,
+    );
+
+    if (declaration) {
+      stmt = declaration[1].trim();
+
+      var declaredName = /^[A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*/.exec(stmt)[0];
+
+      if (declare) declare(declaredName, undefined);
+
+      if (!/=/.test(stmt)) {
+        return { returned: false, value: undefined };
+      }
+    }
+
     var increment = stmt.match(
       /^([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*)\s*(\+\+|--)$/,
     );
@@ -5699,7 +5951,7 @@ export const REACTIVE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
     host.querySelectorAll("[data-wrn-dynamic-component]").forEach(function (element) {
       if (element.__wrnDynamicMounted) return;
       element.__wrnDynamicMounted = true;
-      var cases = Array.prototype.slice.call(element.children).filter(function (candidate) {
+      var cases = toArray(element.children).filter(function (candidate) {
         return candidate.hasAttribute("data-component-case");
       }).map(function (candidate) {
         var marker = document.createComment("wrnexus-component-case:" + (candidate.getAttribute("data-component-case") || ""));

packages/csr/test/api-call.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+import { expect, test, beforeEach } from "bun:test";
+import { Window } from "happy-dom";
+import { REACTIVE_RUNTIME } from "../src/reactive-runtime.ts";
+import { restoreGlobalsAfterAll } from "./global-restore.ts";
+
+const REPLACED_GLOBALS = ["window", "document", "location", "fetch", "NodeFilter"];
+restoreGlobalsAfterAll(REPLACED_GLOBALS);
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  for (const name of REPLACED_GLOBALS) delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>)[name];
+});
+
+interface Call {
+  url: string;
+  init: RequestInit;
+}
+
+/** Mount the runtime with a recording fetch and return its callApi plus the calls made. */
+function harness(response: { status: number; payload: unknown }) {
+  const win = new Window() as unknown as Window & Record<string, unknown>;
+  win.document.body.innerHTML = `<div data-scope="x: 1"></div>`;
+  const calls: Call[] = [];
+
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).window = win;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).document = win.document;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).location = win.location;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).NodeFilter = (
+    win as unknown as { NodeFilter: unknown }
+  ).NodeFilter;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).fetch = (url: string, init: RequestInit) => {
+    calls.push({ url, init });
+    return Promise.resolve({
+      ok: response.status >= 200 && response.status < 300,
+      status: response.status,
+      json: () => Promise.resolve(response.payload),
+    });
+  };
+
+  (0, eval)(REACTIVE_RUNTIME);
+  const callApi = (win as unknown as { __wrnexusCallApi: (...args: any[]) => Promise<any> })
+    .__wrnexusCallApi;
+  return { callApi, calls, win };
+}
+
+test("GET builds a query string and omits undefined fields", async () => {
+  const { callApi, calls } = harness({ status: 200, payload: { users: [] } });
+
+  await callApi("/api/users", "GET", { name: "Ajay", age: undefined });
+
+  expect(calls[0]!.url).toBe("/api/users?name=Ajay");
+  expect(calls[0]!.init.method).toBe("GET");
+  expect(calls[0]!.init.body).toBeUndefined();
+});
+
+test("POST sends a JSON body", async () => {
+  const { callApi, calls } = harness({ status: 200, payload: { ok: true } });
+
+  await callApi("/api/users", "POST", { name: "Ajay" });
+
+  expect(calls[0]!.url).toBe("/api/users");
+  expect(calls[0]!.init.body).toBe(JSON.stringify({ name: "Ajay" }));
+  expect((calls[0]!.init.headers as Record<string, string>)["content-type"]).toBe(
+    "application/json",
+  );
+});
+
+test("a non-GET request carries the CSRF token from the cookie", async () => {
+  const { callApi, calls, win } = harness({ status: 200, payload: {} });
+  win.document.cookie = "wrn-csrf=token-123";
+
+  await callApi("/api/users", "POST", {});
+
+  expect((calls[0]!.init.headers as Record<string, string>)["x-csrf-token"]).toBe("token-123");
+});
+
+test("a 2xx resolves to the parsed payload", async () => {
+  const { callApi } = harness({ status: 200, payload: { users: [{ name: "Ajay" }] } });
+
+  expect(await callApi("/api/users", "GET", {})).toEqual({ users: [{ name: "Ajay" }] });
+});
+
+test("a 204 with no body resolves to undefined instead of rejecting", async () => {
+  const win = new Window() as unknown as Window & Record<string, unknown>;
+  win.document.body.innerHTML = `<div data-scope="x: 1"></div>`;
+
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).window = win;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).document = win.document;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).location = win.location;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).NodeFilter = (
+    win as unknown as { NodeFilter: unknown }
+  ).NodeFilter;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).fetch = () =>
+    Promise.resolve({
+      ok: true,
+      status: 204,
+      json: () => Promise.reject(new SyntaxError("Unexpected end of JSON input")),
+    });
+
+  (0, eval)(REACTIVE_RUNTIME);
+  const callApi = (win as unknown as { __wrnexusCallApi: (...args: any[]) => Promise<any> })
+    .__wrnexusCallApi;
+
+  await expect(callApi("/api/users", "DELETE", {})).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+});
+
+test("a 2xx with an empty/unparseable body resolves to undefined", async () => {
+  const { callApi } = harness({ status: 200, payload: undefined });
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).fetch = () =>
+    Promise.resolve({
+      ok: true,
+      status: 200,
+      json: () => Promise.reject(new SyntaxError("Unexpected end of JSON input")),
+    });
+
+  await expect(callApi("/api/users", "GET", {})).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+});
+
+test("a non-2xx rejects with status, message and data", async () => {
+  const { callApi } = harness({ status: 400, payload: { error: "Bad filter" } });
+
+  const failure = await callApi("/api/users", "GET", {}).catch(
+    (error: Error & { status?: number; data?: unknown }) => error,
+  );
+
+  expect(failure.status).toBe(400);
+  expect(failure.message).toContain("Bad filter");
+  expect(failure.data).toEqual({ error: "Bad filter" });
+});

packages/csr/test/global-restore.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { afterAll } from "bun:test";
+
+/**
+ * Restore globals a suite replaces, once the suite is done.
+ *
+ * These suites install a happy-dom window over the real globals and delete
+ * them before each test so every test starts clean. bun test loads and runs
+ * one file at a time rather than importing them all up front, so anything left
+ * deleted is still missing when the next suite runs -- which is how `bun test`
+ * with no argument came to fail unrelated files with "fetch is not a
+ * function". Names absent at capture time are deleted again rather than being
+ * restored as undefined, so a global that never existed does not gain a key.
+ */
+export function restoreGlobalsAfterAll(names: readonly string[]): void {
+  const captured = new Map<string, unknown>(
+    names.map((name) => [name, (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>)[name]]),
+  );
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    for (const [name, value] of captured) {
+      if (value === undefined) {
+        delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>)[name];
+      } else {
+        (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>)[name] = value;
+      }
+    }
+  });
+}

packages/csr/test/nav.test.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { test, expect, beforeEach } from "bun:test";
 import { Window } from "happy-dom";
 import { NAV_RUNTIME } from "../src/nav-runtime.ts";
+import { restoreGlobalsAfterAll } from "./global-restore.ts";
 
 let win: any;
 let fetchCalls: { url: string; opts: any }[];
@@ -36,18 +37,22 @@ function install(bodyHtml: string): void {
 
 const flush = () => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0));
 
+const REPLACED_GLOBALS = [
+  "window",
+  "document",
+  "history",
+  "location",
+  "DOMParser",
+  "CustomEvent",
+  "Event",
+  "fetch",
+];
+
+restoreGlobalsAfterAll(REPLACED_GLOBALS);
+
 beforeEach(() => {
   const g = globalThis as any;
-  for (const k of [
+  for (const k of REPLACED_GLOBALS) {
-    "window",
-    "document",
-    "history",
-    "location",
-    "DOMParser",
-    "CustomEvent",
-    "Event",
-    "fetch",
-  ]) {
     delete g[k];
   }
 });
@@ -148,7 +153,7 @@ test("synchronizes and rebinds i18n data during client navigation", async () =>
   win.__wrnLang = { bind: (root: unknown) => (boundRoot = root) };
   nextHtml =
     `<html lang="mr"><body><div id="app"><p data-t="home.title">नवीन</p></div>` +
-    `<script>window.__wrnI18n={"lang":"mr","messages":{"home":{"title":"नवीन"}},"fallbackMessages":{}};</script>` +
+    `<script type="application/json" data-wrn-i18n>{"lang":"mr","messages":{"home":{"title":"नवीन"}},"fallbackMessages":{}}</script>` +
     `</body></html>`;
 
   win.document.getElementById("lnk").click();
@@ -180,7 +185,7 @@ test("preserves same-language translations when an incoming navigation catalog i
   };
   nextHtml =
     `<html lang="en"><body><div id="app"><p data-t="navigation.home">navigation.home</p></div>` +
-    `<script>window.__wrnI18n={"lang":"en","messages":{},"fallbackMessages":{}};</script>` +
+    `<script type="application/json" data-wrn-i18n>{"lang":"en","messages":{},"fallbackMessages":{}}</script>` +
     `</body></html>`;
 
   win.document.getElementById("lnk").click();

packages/csr/test/reactive.test.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { Window } from "happy-dom";
 import { REACTIVE_RUNTIME } from "../src/reactive-runtime.ts";
 import { getComponentControllerRuntime, getReactiveRuntime } from "../src/index.ts";
 import { mountHtml } from "@wrnexus/test";
+import { restoreGlobalsAfterAll } from "./global-restore.ts";
 
 // Fresh DOM per test, with the runtime's globals bound.
 function mount(html: string, runtime = REACTIVE_RUNTIME, controllers = ""): Window {
@@ -34,12 +35,14 @@ function mount(html: string, runtime = REACTIVE_RUNTIME, controllers = ""): Wind
   return win as unknown as Window;
 }
 
+const REPLACED_GLOBALS = ["window", "document", "location", "fetch", "MutationObserver"];
+
+restoreGlobalsAfterAll(REPLACED_GLOBALS);
+
 beforeEach(() => {
-  delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).window;
+  for (const name of REPLACED_GLOBALS) {
-  delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).document;
+    delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>)[name];
-  delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).location;
+  }
-  delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).fetch;
-  delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).MutationObserver;
 });
 
 test("split runtime hydrates a controller only from the controller asset", () => {
@@ -117,6 +120,55 @@ test("@event (data-on-click) mutates a signal and re-renders", () => {
   expect(btn.textContent).toBe("2");
 });
 
+test("compiled if blocks switch branches after hydration", () => {
+  const definition = Buffer.from(
+    JSON.stringify([
+      { cond: "open", body: '<p class="open">Open <span data-text="count">{count}</span></p>' },
+      { cond: null, body: '<p class="closed">Closed</p>' },
+    ]),
+  ).toString("base64");
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="open: false, count: 2">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="open = !open">toggle</button>` +
+      `<button data-on-click="count++">increment</button>` +
+      `<template data-wrn-if="${definition}"></template><p class="closed">Closed</p><template data-wrn-control-end></template>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".closed")).toBeNull();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".open")?.textContent).toBe("Open 2");
+  win.document.querySelectorAll("button")[1]!.click();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".open")?.textContent).toBe("Open 3");
+});
+
+test("compiled each blocks rerender rows and their empty branch", () => {
+  const definition = Buffer.from(
+    JSON.stringify({
+      list: "items",
+      item: "item",
+      index: "index",
+      body: '<p class="row">{index}:{item}</p>',
+      empty: '<p class="empty">Empty</p>',
+    }),
+  ).toString("base64");
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="items: ['a']">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="items = ['b', 'c']">more</button>` +
+      `<button data-on-click="items = []">clear</button>` +
+      `<template data-wrn-each="${definition}"></template><p class="row">0:a</p><template data-wrn-control-end></template>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+
+  win.document.querySelectorAll("button")[0]!.click();
+  expect(Array.from(win.document.querySelectorAll(".row")).map((node) => node.textContent)).toEqual(
+    ["0:b", "1:c"],
+  );
+  win.document.querySelectorAll("button")[1]!.click();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".row")).toBeNull();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".empty")?.textContent).toBe("Empty");
+});
+
 test("component functions support formatted multiline assignments and ternaries", () => {
   const behavior = Buffer.from(
     JSON.stringify({
@@ -1582,3 +1634,150 @@ test("splitter announces its new size for the component to re-emit", () => {
   );
   expect(seen).toEqual([60]);
 });
+
+test("control blocks created by a client rerender render their own content", () => {
+  // A nested block that arrives with the server HTML is hydrated: its first
+  // reactive pass must NOT redraw, or it would throw away server DOM. A nested
+  // block created later by an outer rerender has no server DOM, so skipping its
+  // first pass leaves it permanently empty — its dependencies never change
+  // again to trigger a second one.
+  const inner = Buffer.from(
+    JSON.stringify([
+      { cond: "g.rows.length > 0", body: '<p class="has-rows">HAS</p>' },
+      { cond: null, body: '<p class="no-rows">NONE</p>' },
+    ]),
+  ).toString("base64");
+  const outer = Buffer.from(
+    JSON.stringify({
+      list: "groups",
+      item: "g",
+      body:
+        `<section class="group"><span data-text="g.name">{g.name}</span>` +
+        `<template data-wrn-if="${inner}"></template><template data-wrn-control-end></template>` +
+        `</section>`,
+      empty: "",
+    }),
+  ).toString("base64");
+
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="groups: [{ name: 'g1', rows: ['a'] }]">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="groups = [{ name: 'g2', rows: [] }]">swap</button>` +
+      `<template data-wrn-each="${outer}"></template>` +
+      `<section class="group"><span data-text="g.name">g1</span>` +
+      `<template data-wrn-if="${inner}"></template><p class="has-rows">HAS</p>` +
+      `<template data-wrn-control-end></template></section>` +
+      `<template data-wrn-control-end></template>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+
+  // The outer each rerendered: the new group's heading is present.
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".group span")?.textContent).toBe("g2");
+  // The nested if inside that new row must have rendered its else branch.
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".no-rows")?.textContent).toBe("NONE");
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".has-rows")).toBeNull();
+});
+
+test("a for loop with a declaration initialiser runs in a handler", () => {
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="total: 0">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="for (var i = 1; i <= 3; i += 1) { total = total + i }">go</button>` +
+      `<span data-text="total">0</span>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector("span")?.textContent).toBe("6");
+});
+
+test("a while loop runs in a handler", () => {
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="n: 1">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="while (n < 10) { n = n * 2 }">go</button>` +
+      `<span data-text="n">1</span>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector("span")?.textContent).toBe("16");
+});
+
+test("a declaration stays local instead of becoming reactive state", () => {
+  // An unknown name reaching writeScope becomes a signal and triggers a render
+  // sweep. A var inside a function called during a render would then loop
+  // forever, so declarations must bind locally.
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="out: 0">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="var step = 5; out = step + 1">go</button>` +
+      `<span class="out" data-text="out">0</span>` +
+      `<span class="leak" data-text="step"></span>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".out")?.textContent).toBe("6");
+  expect(win.document.querySelector(".leak")?.textContent).toBe("");
+});
+
+test("a control block removed from the DOM does not abort later renders", () => {
+  // Its effect stays in the renderers list. Running it against a detached node
+  // throws, which would abort the sweep and leave every later effect stale.
+  const definition = Buffer.from(
+    JSON.stringify([{ cond: "n < 100", body: '<i class="gone"></i>' }]),
+  ).toString("base64");
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="n: 0">` +
+      `<template data-wrn-if="${definition}"></template><i class="gone"></i><template data-wrn-control-end></template>` +
+      `<button data-on-click="n = n + 1">go</button>` +
+      `<span data-text="n">0</span>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+  const block = win.document.querySelector("[data-wrn-if]")!;
+  block.parentNode!.removeChild(block);
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector("span")?.textContent).toBe("1");
+});
+
+test("a declaration statement assigns into scope", () => {
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="out: 0">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="var step = 5; out = step + 1">go</button>` +
+      `<span data-text="out">0</span>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+  expect(win.document.querySelector("span")?.textContent).toBe("6");
+});
+
+test("an unbounded loop stops instead of hanging the page", () => {
+  // Handler source is author-controlled and runs in the browser. Without a cap
+  // a mistaken condition freezes the tab with no way back.
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="n: 0">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="while (true) { n = n + 1 }">go</button>` +
+      `<span data-text="n">0</span>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+  const value = Number(win.document.querySelector("span")?.textContent);
+  expect(value).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  expect(Number.isFinite(value)).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("a class binding inside data-for follows state the row never mentions", () => {
+  // The row's own array is untouched, so nothing rebuilds the list. The
+  // binding has to be reactive in its own right to keep up.
+  const binding = JSON.stringify(["is-active", "selected === row.id"]);
+  const win = mount(
+    `<div data-scope="rows: [{&quot;id&quot;:1},{&quot;id&quot;:2}], selected: 1">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="selected = 2">pick</button>` +
+      `<ul><li data-for="row in rows" data-wrn-class-active='${binding}'></li></ul>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+  const items = () => Array.from(win.document.querySelectorAll("li"));
+  expect(items()[0]?.classList.contains("is-active")).toBe(true);
+  expect(items()[1]?.classList.contains("is-active")).toBe(false);
+
+  win.document.querySelector("button")!.click();
+
+  expect(items()[0]?.classList.contains("is-active")).toBe(false);
+  expect(items()[1]?.classList.contains("is-active")).toBe(true);
+});

packages/csr/test/realtime.test.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { test, expect, beforeEach } from "bun:test";
 import { Window } from "happy-dom";
 import { REALTIME_RUNTIME } from "../src/realtime-runtime.ts";
+import { restoreGlobalsAfterAll } from "./global-restore.ts";
 
 /* A fake WebSocket that records instances + sent frames and lets tests drive events. */
 let sockets: FakeWS[];
@@ -45,8 +46,12 @@ function boot(bodyHtml: string) {
   return win as unknown as Window;
 }
 
+const REPLACED_GLOBALS = ["window", "document", "location", "WebSocket"];
+
+restoreGlobalsAfterAll(REPLACED_GLOBALS);
+
 beforeEach(() => {
-  for (const k of ["window", "document", "location", "WebSocket"]) {
+  for (const k of REPLACED_GLOBALS) {
     delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>)[k];
   }
 });

packages/db/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/db",
-  "version": "0.8.15",
+  "version": "0.8.16",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./src/index.ts",

packages/db/src/generate.ts

@@ -230,5 +230,12 @@ export function generateQueriesFile(
   if (usedModels.size > 0) {
     imports.push(`import { ${[...usedModels].sort().join(", ")} } from "./schema.ts";`);
   }
-  return `// AUTO-GENERATED by \`wrnexus db generate\` — do not edit.\n${imports.join("\n")}\n\n${blocks.join("\n\n")}\n`;
+  // The dialect is stamped into the header because it changes the emitted SQL:
+  // postgres uses $1 placeholders where sqlite and mysql use ?. Regenerating
+  // under a different profile therefore rewrites this committed file, and
+  // without the stamp the diff looks like unexplained churn.
+  return (
+    `// AUTO-GENERATED by \`wrnexus db generate\` (dialect: ${dialect}) — do not edit.\n` +
+    `${imports.join("\n")}\n\n${blocks.join("\n\n")}\n`
+  );
 }

packages/db/test/generate-dialect.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { generateQueriesFile, parseQueries } from "../src/generate.ts";
+
+const queries = parseQueries(`-- name: GetUser :one\nSELECT * FROM users WHERE email = :email;\n`);
+
+test("the generated header records the dialect it was built for", () => {
+  // The same command emits different SQL per dialect, so a build under another
+  // profile rewrites the committed file. The stamp makes that visible in the
+  // diff instead of looking like unexplained churn.
+  expect(generateQueriesFile(queries, [], "sqlite")).toContain("(dialect: sqlite)");
+  expect(generateQueriesFile(queries, [], "postgres")).toContain("(dialect: postgres)");
+});
+
+test("placeholder style follows the dialect", () => {
+  expect(generateQueriesFile(queries, [], "sqlite")).toContain("email = ?");
+  expect(generateQueriesFile(queries, [], "postgres")).toContain("email = $1");
+});
+
+test("generation is deterministic for a fixed dialect", () => {
+  const first = generateQueriesFile(queries, [], "postgres");
+  const second = generateQueriesFile(queries, [], "postgres");
+  expect(first).toBe(second);
+});

packages/dev-server/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/dev-server",
-  "version": "0.8.37",
+  "version": "0.8.41",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
   "exports": {

packages/dev-server/src/gateway.ts

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ function requestMessageBytes(value: string | ArrayBuffer | ArrayBufferView): num
   return value instanceof ArrayBuffer ? value.byteLength : value.byteLength;
 }
 
-function gatewayWebSocketOriginAllowed(
+export function gatewayWebSocketOriginAllowed(
   req: Request,
   target: Target,
   configured: string[],
@@ -174,7 +174,11 @@ function gatewayWebSocketOriginAllowed(
   }
   if (configured.includes(origin)) return true;
   if (target.publicOrigin && origin === new URL(target.publicOrigin).origin) return true;
-  return target.domains.some((domain) => parsed.host.toLowerCase() === domain.toLowerCase());
+  // Compare hostnames, not hosts: configured domains carry no port, while the
+  // browser's Origin does. publicOrigin above only ever matches domains[0], so
+  // every other domain fell through to here and was denied purely on the port,
+  // which left the HMR socket reconnecting forever on those hosts.
+  return target.domains.some((domain) => parsed.hostname.toLowerCase() === domain.toLowerCase());
 }
 
 /**
@@ -466,19 +470,37 @@ export function stripUntrustedInternalHeaders(headers: Headers): Headers {
 }
 
 /**
- * The reserved inter-app RPC namespace is refused at the gateway edge, before
+ * Private inter-app RPC routes are refused at the gateway edge. The exact
- * any proxying — it is only ever mounted by a child app's own dev-server and
+ * prefix is the CSRF-protected browser-to-app server-function endpoint and is
- * must never be reachable from outside the workspace.
+ * intentionally proxied to the selected child app.
  */
 export function isRpcGatewayPath(pathname: string): boolean {
   return (
-    pathname === RPC_PATH_PREFIX ||
     pathname.startsWith(`${RPC_PATH_PREFIX}/`) ||
     pathname === RPC_STREAM_PATH_PREFIX ||
     pathname.startsWith(`${RPC_STREAM_PATH_PREFIX}/`)
   );
 }
 
+/** Build the trusted internal hop for a browser server-function request. */
+export function gatewayBrowserRpcHeaders(
+  req: Request,
+  url: URL,
+  ip: string,
+  forwardedHeaders: boolean,
+  backendOrigin: string,
+): Headers {
+  const headers = stripUntrustedInternalHeaders(
+    gatewayProxyHeaders(req, url, ip, forwardedHeaders),
+  );
+  // The public request already passed the gateway's host and fetch-metadata
+  // checks. Present the internal proxy hop as same-origin to the child while
+  // retaining the double-submit CSRF cookie and header.
+  headers.set("origin", backendOrigin);
+  headers.delete("host");
+  return headers;
+}
+
 /** Boot every app as a child process, then route by Host on one gateway port. */
 export async function startGateway(opts: GatewayOptions): Promise<RunningGateway> {
   const port = opts.port ?? 3000;
@@ -493,7 +515,7 @@ export async function startGateway(opts: GatewayOptions): Promise<RunningGateway
   );
   // Loopback-only origins, computed up front (ports are assigned by index
   // before any child spawns) so every child can reach every other child
-  // directly — bypassing the gateway, which 404s the RPC prefix by design.
+  // directly — bypassing the gateway, which 404s private nested RPC routes.
   const internalOriginsEnv: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = Object.freeze(
     Object.fromEntries(
       opts.apps.map((app, i) => [app.name, `http://127.0.0.1:${app.port ?? port + 1 + i}`]),
@@ -733,9 +755,10 @@ export async function startGateway(opts: GatewayOptions): Promise<RunningGateway
         }
 
         // HTTP → reverse-proxy to the app, preserving method/headers/body.
-        const headers = stripUntrustedInternalHeaders(
+        const headers =
-          gatewayProxyHeaders(req, url, ip, forwardedHeaders),
+          url.pathname === RPC_PATH_PREFIX
-        );
+            ? gatewayBrowserRpcHeaders(req, url, ip, forwardedHeaders, target.origin)
+            : stripUntrustedInternalHeaders(gatewayProxyHeaders(req, url, ip, forwardedHeaders));
         const body =
           req.method === "GET" || req.method === "HEAD" ? undefined : await req.arrayBuffer();
         let res: Response;

packages/dev-server/src/index.ts

@@ -48,6 +48,22 @@ import {
   wrnBrowserArtifactUrlAsync,
 } from "./pipeline.ts";
 import { createRpcHandler } from "@wrnexus/ssr/rpc";
+import { createRecycleMonitor } from "./recycle.ts";
+import { RESTART_EXIT_CODE } from "./restart.ts";
+
+/*
+ * Recycle after this many hot rebuilds. Each retains roughly 0.66 MB that Bun
+ * cannot release, so 300 caps the leak near 200 MB -- far more than a normal
+ * session reaches, and far less than what makes the server crawl. Set
+ * WRNEXUS_DEV_RECYCLE_AFTER to tune it, or to 0 to never recycle.
+ */
+const RECYCLE_REBUILD_THRESHOLD = (() => {
+  const configured = Number(process.env.WRNEXUS_DEV_RECYCLE_AFTER);
+  return Number.isFinite(configured) && configured >= 0 ? configured : 300;
+})();
+/** Quiet period required first, so a recycle never interrupts a live request. */
+const RECYCLE_IDLE_MS = 10_000;
+const RECYCLE_CHECK_MS = 5_000;
 import { createHandlers, type WsData } from "./runtime.ts";
 import { createDevAssetServer } from "./assets.ts";
 import { pluginAssetsFromContributions } from "./plugin-assets.ts";
@@ -588,6 +604,22 @@ export async function startServer(opts: ServeOptions): Promise<RunningServer> {
     validateCsrf: validateRpcCsrf,
   });
 
+  /*
+   * Hot rebuilds retain their predecessors (see recycle.ts). Only dev reloads
+   * modules, so only dev needs to recycle.
+   */
+  const recycle =
+    hmr && mode === "development" && RECYCLE_REBUILD_THRESHOLD > 0
+      ? createRecycleMonitor({
+          threshold: RECYCLE_REBUILD_THRESHOLD,
+          idleMs: RECYCLE_IDLE_MS,
+          onRecycle(reason) {
+            console.log(`[wrnexus] ${reason}`);
+            process.exit(RESTART_EXIT_CODE);
+          },
+        })
+      : null;
+
   const server = Bun.serve<WsData>({
     port,
     hostname,
@@ -595,12 +627,19 @@ export async function startServer(opts: ServeOptions): Promise<RunningServer> {
     maxRequestBodySize: 10 * 1024 * 1024,
     ...(opts.tls ? { tls: opts.tls } : {}),
     fetch(request, server) {
+      recycle?.recordRequest(Date.now());
       if (new URL(request.url).pathname === "/__wrnexus/rpc") return rpcHandler(request);
       return handlers.fetch(request, server);
     },
     websocket: handlers.websocket,
   });
 
+  if (recycle) {
+    // unref so a pending check never keeps the process alive on its own.
+    const timer = setInterval(() => recycle.tick(Date.now()), RECYCLE_CHECK_MS);
+    timer.unref?.();
+  }
+
   try {
     await pluginRunner.hook("configureServer", {
       server,
@@ -626,6 +665,7 @@ export async function startServer(opts: ServeOptions): Promise<RunningServer> {
 
       for (const file of files) {
         invalidateModule(isAbsolute(file) ? file : resolve(appDir, file));
+        recycle?.recordRebuild();
       }
       if (files.some((file) => file.endsWith(".wrn"))) assets.invalidateCss();
 

packages/dev-server/src/pipeline.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   buildIslands,
   islandNamesFrom,
   resolveWrnImports,
+  stripBrowserTypes,
   type PageAst,
   type ViewNode,
 } from "@wrnexus/compiler";
@@ -58,9 +59,28 @@ export function runMiddleware(
  */
 const moduleCache = new Map<string, Promise<Record<string, unknown>>>();
 const moduleVersions = new Map<string, number>();
+/*
+ * Artifact URLs carry a content hash, so a rebuild registers a new key and the
+ * previous one is never requested again -- left alone these grow for the life
+ * of the dev server. Bounded rather than cleared on rebuild because a page
+ * already mid-load may still ask for the URL it was served.
+ */
+const ARTIFACT_PATH_LIMIT = 512;
 const browserArtifactPaths = new Map<string, string>();
 const islandArtifactPaths = new Map<string, string>();
 
+function rememberArtifact(paths: Map<string, string>, pathname: string, artifact: string): void {
+  // Re-insert so a key still in use is treated as recent.
+  paths.delete(pathname);
+  paths.set(pathname, artifact);
+
+  while (paths.size > ARTIFACT_PATH_LIMIT) {
+    const oldest = paths.keys().next();
+    if (oldest.done) break;
+    paths.delete(oldest.value);
+  }
+}
+
 type ImportMode = "legacy" | "compatible" | "explicit";
 interface CompileImportOptions {
   mode: ImportMode;
@@ -611,6 +631,7 @@ export function compileWrnArtifactsAsync(file: string, version = 0): Promise<Wrn
       const rewritten = await rewriteArtifactImportsAsync(outputs[target], ast, file, target);
       let transformed = await devCompilerPipeline!.transformCode(rewritten, file);
       if (target === "browser") {
+        transformed = stripBrowserTypes(transformed);
         transformed = await bundleBrowserArtifact(transformed, file, cacheDir, stem);
       }
       writeFileSync(artifacts[target], transformed, "utf8");
@@ -622,7 +643,7 @@ export function compileWrnArtifactsAsync(file: string, version = 0): Promise<Wrn
     );
     writeFileSync(artifacts.contract, JSON.stringify(targets.contract, null, 2) + "\n", "utf8");
     writeFileSync(artifacts.rpc, JSON.stringify(targets.rpc, null, 2) + "\n", "utf8");
-    browserArtifactPaths.set(browserPath, artifacts.browser);
+    rememberArtifact(browserArtifactPaths, browserPath, artifacts.browser);
     compileMetrics.compilations++;
     return artifacts;
   })().finally(() => asyncCompileInProgress.delete(key));
@@ -673,7 +694,7 @@ export function compileWrnArtifacts(file: string, version = 0): WrnCompileArtifa
         .map(([, path]) => path);
       if (requiredArtifacts.every((path) => statSync(path).isFile())) {
         compileMetrics.hits++;
-        browserArtifactPaths.set(`/__wrnexus/client/${stem}.mjs`, artifacts.browser);
+        rememberArtifact(browserArtifactPaths, `/__wrnexus/client/${stem}.mjs`, artifacts.browser);
         // A cached .wrn still needs its island bundles: the .tsx may have changed
         // since, and after a restart with a warm cache nothing else would build them.
         let cachedIslands: Array<{ name: string; sourcePath: string }> = [];
@@ -712,10 +733,10 @@ export function compileWrnArtifacts(file: string, version = 0): WrnCompileArtifa
       writeFileSync(artifacts.main, mainCode, "utf8");
       writeFileSync(
         artifacts.browser,
-        rewriteArtifactImports(targets.browser, result.ast, file, "browser"),
+        stripBrowserTypes(rewriteArtifactImports(targets.browser, result.ast, file, "browser")),
         "utf8",
       );
-      browserArtifactPaths.set(browserPath, artifacts.browser);
+      rememberArtifact(browserArtifactPaths, browserPath, artifacts.browser);
       writeFileSync(
         artifacts.server,
         rewriteArtifactImports(targets.server, result.ast, file, "server"),
@@ -775,7 +796,7 @@ export function serveWrnBrowserArtifact(pathname: string): Response | null {
 
 /** Registers a built island asset for serving under `/__wrnexus/island/`. */
 export function registerIslandArtifact(pathname: string, artifact: string): void {
-  islandArtifactPaths.set(pathname, artifact);
+  rememberArtifact(islandArtifactPaths, pathname, artifact);
 }
 
 /** Serves a built island bundle, chunk, or the island mount runtime. */

packages/dev-server/src/recycle.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/**
+ * Recycle the dev server once hot rebuilds have piled up.
+ *
+ * Every rebuild of a `.wrn` file has to be given a new module identity,
+ * because Bun caches modules by path and would otherwise serve the old one.
+ * Bun has no API to unload a module, so each rebuild retains its predecessor
+ * for the life of the process -- measured at roughly 0.66 MB per rebuild,
+ * while edits that mint no new module (CSS) cost nothing. Over a long session
+ * that is the difference between a fast dev server and a stuck one.
+ *
+ * The process therefore recycles itself: the child exits with
+ * RESTART_EXIT_CODE and the CLI supervisor respawns it. Browsers reconnect on
+ * their own because the HMR client already retries.
+ *
+ * Recycling is deferred until the server has been idle for a moment, so it
+ * never interrupts a request in flight. The cost is that in-memory state
+ * (realtime rooms, warmed caches) resets at that point, which is why the
+ * threshold is high enough that an ordinary editing session never reaches it.
+ */
+
+export interface RecycleMonitorOptions {
+  /** Retained rebuilds tolerated before a recycle is armed. */
+  threshold: number;
+  /** Quiet period required before recycling, in milliseconds. */
+  idleMs: number;
+  onRecycle: (reason: string) => void;
+}
+
+export interface RecycleMonitor {
+  /** Count one rebuild that retained a module version. */
+  recordRebuild(): void;
+  /** Note that a request was served, at `now`. */
+  recordRequest(now: number): void;
+  /** Recycle if the threshold is passed and the server has gone quiet. */
+  tick(now: number): void;
+  retained(): number;
+}
+
+export function createRecycleMonitor(options: RecycleMonitorOptions): RecycleMonitor {
+  let rebuilds = 0;
+  let lastRequestAt: number | null = null;
+  let recycled = false;
+
+  return {
+    recordRebuild() {
+      rebuilds++;
+    },
+
+    recordRequest(now: number) {
+      lastRequestAt = now;
+    },
+
+    tick(now: number) {
+      if (recycled) return;
+      if (rebuilds < options.threshold) return;
+      // A server that has served nothing is idle by definition.
+      if (lastRequestAt !== null && now - lastRequestAt < options.idleMs) return;
+
+      recycled = true;
+      options.onRecycle(
+        `${rebuilds} hot rebuilds retained; restarting to release the memory they hold`,
+      );
+    },
+
+    retained() {
+      return rebuilds;
+    },
+  };
+}

packages/dev-server/src/runtime.ts

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ import {
   type TenancyConfig,
 } from "@wrnexus/styles";
 import {
-  renderI18nData,
+  renderI18nDataTag,
   makeT,
   resolveLang,
   translateHtml,
@@ -672,22 +672,16 @@ export const HMR_CLIENT_JS = `
     pendingSync = false;
     var doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, "text/html");
 
-    var i18nScript = Array.prototype.find.call(
+    var i18nScript = doc.querySelector('script[type="application/json"][data-wrn-i18n]');
-      doc.querySelectorAll("script:not([src])"),
-      function (node) { return /^window[.]__wrnI18n=/.test(String(node.textContent || "").trim()); },
-    );
     if (i18nScript) {
-      var i18nMatch = /^window[.]__wrnI18n=([^]*);\\s*$/.exec(String(i18nScript.textContent || "").trim());
+      try {
-      if (i18nMatch) {
+        var incomingI18n = JSON.parse(String(i18nScript.textContent || "{}"));
-        try {
+        var existingI18n = window.__wrnI18n || {};
-          var incomingI18n = JSON.parse(i18nMatch[1]);
+        incomingI18n.t = existingI18n.t;
-          var existingI18n = window.__wrnI18n || {};
+        incomingI18n.set = existingI18n.set;
-          incomingI18n.t = existingI18n.t;
+        window.__wrnI18n = incomingI18n;
-          incomingI18n.set = existingI18n.set;
+      } catch (error) {
-          window.__wrnI18n = incomingI18n;
+        console.error("[wrnexus] failed to synchronize i18n HMR data", error);
-        } catch (error) {
-          console.error("[wrnexus] failed to synchronize i18n HMR data", error);
-        }
       }
     }
 
@@ -1978,9 +1972,7 @@ export function createHandlers(deps: RuntimeDeps): Handlers {
       extraBody:
         [
           renderStoreHydration(storeContainer, (ctx.locals.cspNonce as string) ?? undefined),
-          deps.i18n
+          deps.i18n ? renderI18nDataTag(deps.i18n, language) : "",
-            ? `<script${ctx.locals.cspNonce ? ` nonce="${String(ctx.locals.cspNonce)}"` : ""}>${renderI18nData(deps.i18n, language)}</script>`
-            : "",
           hmr ? hmrClientTag((ctx.locals.cspNonce as string) ?? "") : "",
           shouldEnableDevToolbar(mode, deps) ? DEV_TOOLBAR_SCRIPT : "",
         ]

packages/dev-server/test/gateway-ws-origin.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { gatewayWebSocketOriginAllowed } from "../src/gateway.ts";
+
+const target = {
+  name: "web",
+  origin: "http://127.0.0.1:3101",
+  domains: ["localhost", "web.localhost"],
+  publicOrigin: "http://localhost:3000",
+} as any;
+
+function upgrade(origin: string, host: string): Request {
+  return new Request("http://" + host + "/__wrnexus/hmr", {
+    headers: { origin, host, upgrade: "websocket" },
+  });
+}
+
+test("allows an upgrade from the app's primary domain", () => {
+  expect(
+    gatewayWebSocketOriginAllowed(upgrade("http://localhost:3000", "localhost:3000"), target, []),
+  ).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("allows an upgrade from a secondary domain on a non-default port", () => {
+  // publicOrigin is built from domains[0], so a browser on web.localhost falls
+  // through to the domain list — where the origin host still carries :3000 and
+  // the configured domain does not. That mismatch denied every HMR socket on
+  // any domain but the first, leaving the client reconnecting forever.
+  expect(
+    gatewayWebSocketOriginAllowed(
+      upgrade("http://web.localhost:3000", "web.localhost:3000"),
+      target,
+      [],
+    ),
+  ).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("still denies an unrelated origin", () => {
+  expect(
+    gatewayWebSocketOriginAllowed(
+      upgrade("http://evil.example:3000", "web.localhost:3000"),
+      target,
+      [],
+    ),
+  ).toBe(false);
+});
+
+test("still denies a lookalike suffix domain", () => {
+  expect(
+    gatewayWebSocketOriginAllowed(
+      upgrade("http://notweb.localhost:3000", "web.localhost:3000"),
+      target,
+      [],
+    ),
+  ).toBe(false);
+});

packages/dev-server/test/gateway.test.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import {
   defaultGatewayHostname,
   forwardAuthFailure,
   forwardAuthHeaders,
+  gatewayBrowserRpcHeaders,
   gatewayProxyHeaders,
   gatewayWebSocketBackendHeaders,
   stripUntrustedInternalHeaders,
@@ -176,13 +177,40 @@ test("nested SSO proxy keeps the protected app's original request headers", () =
   expect(proxied.get("x-original-uri")).toBe("/settings");
 });
 
-test("the reserved RPC prefix is refused at the gateway before any proxying", () => {
+test("the gateway proxies browser server functions but refuses private RPC routes", () => {
-  expect(isRpcGatewayPath(RPC_PATH_PREFIX)).toBe(true);
+  expect(isRpcGatewayPath(RPC_PATH_PREFIX)).toBe(false);
   expect(isRpcGatewayPath(`${RPC_PATH_PREFIX}/billing/createInvoice`)).toBe(true);
   expect(isRpcGatewayPath("/api/billing")).toBe(false);
   expect(isRpcGatewayPath("/__wrnexus/rpcfoo")).toBe(false);
 });
 
+test("browser RPC proxy preserves CSRF credentials and trusts only the internal hop", () => {
+  const request = new Request(`http://web.localhost:3000${RPC_PATH_PREFIX}`, {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: {
+      host: "web.localhost:3000",
+      origin: "http://web.localhost:3000",
+      cookie: "wrn-csrf=token",
+      "x-csrf-token": "token",
+      [RPC_INTERNAL_HEADER]: "forged",
+    },
+  });
+  const headers = gatewayBrowserRpcHeaders(
+    request,
+    new URL(request.url),
+    "127.0.0.1",
+    true,
+    "http://127.0.0.1:3001",
+  );
+
+  expect(headers.get("origin")).toBe("http://127.0.0.1:3001");
+  expect(headers.get("cookie")).toBe("wrn-csrf=token");
+  expect(headers.get("x-csrf-token")).toBe("token");
+  expect(headers.get("x-forwarded-host")).toBe("web.localhost:3000");
+  expect(headers.has(RPC_INTERNAL_HEADER)).toBe(false);
+  expect(headers.has("host")).toBe(false);
+});
+
 test("an inbound internal-marker header from outside is stripped regardless of casing", () => {
   for (const name of [
     RPC_INTERNAL_HEADER,

packages/dev-server/test/recycle.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import { test, expect } from "bun:test";
+import { createRecycleMonitor } from "../src/recycle.ts";
+
+/** Fresh monitor with a small threshold so tests stay readable. */
+function monitor(overrides: Partial<Parameters<typeof createRecycleMonitor>[0]> = {}) {
+  const recycled: string[] = [];
+  const control = createRecycleMonitor({
+    threshold: 3,
+    idleMs: 1000,
+    onRecycle: (reason) => recycled.push(reason),
+    ...overrides,
+  });
+  return { control, recycled };
+}
+
+test("stays quiet below the rebuild threshold", () => {
+  const { control, recycled } = monitor();
+
+  control.recordRebuild();
+  control.recordRebuild();
+  control.tick(10_000);
+
+  expect(recycled).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test("recycles once rebuilds pass the threshold and the server goes idle", () => {
+  const { control, recycled } = monitor();
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) control.recordRebuild();
+  control.recordRequest(0);
+  control.tick(1_500);
+
+  expect(recycled.length).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test("waits for the idle gap rather than cutting off active work", () => {
+  // Recycling mid-request would drop it. The gap is the whole point.
+  const { control, recycled } = monitor();
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) control.recordRebuild();
+  control.recordRequest(0);
+  control.tick(500);
+  expect(recycled).toEqual([]);
+
+  control.recordRequest(900);
+  control.tick(1_400);
+  expect(recycled).toEqual([]);
+
+  control.tick(2_000);
+  expect(recycled.length).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test("recycles only once even if it keeps being ticked", () => {
+  const { control, recycled } = monitor();
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) control.recordRebuild();
+  control.recordRequest(0);
+  control.tick(5_000);
+  control.tick(6_000);
+  control.tick(7_000);
+
+  expect(recycled.length).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test("a server that never served a request can still recycle", () => {
+  const { control, recycled } = monitor();
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) control.recordRebuild();
+  control.tick(9_999);
+
+  expect(recycled.length).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test("reports how many rebuilds are being retained", () => {
+  const { control } = monitor();
+
+  control.recordRebuild();
+  control.recordRebuild();
+
+  expect(control.retained()).toBe(2);
+});

packages/dev-toolbar/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/dev-toolbar",
-  "version": "0.8.12",
+  "version": "0.8.13",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "sideEffects": false,

packages/i18n/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/i18n",
-  "version": "0.8.11",
+  "version": "0.8.12",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./src/index.ts",

packages/i18n/src/index.ts

@@ -425,9 +425,20 @@ function safeJson(value: unknown): string {
     .replace(/\u2029/g, "\\u2029");
 }
 
+/** Attribute marking the JSON block that carries per-request i18n data. */
+export const I18N_DATA_ATTRIBUTE = "data-wrn-i18n";
+
+/**
+ * The i18n payload, emitted as JSON rather than as an assignment.
+ *
+ * It ships inside a `type="application/json"` block, which the browser never
+ * executes, so `script-src` does not apply to it. As an inline executable
+ * script it was blocked whenever the surrounding document's CSP nonce came
+ * from a different response, leaving window.__wrnI18n undefined.
+ */
 export function renderI18nData(i18n: ResolvedI18n, lang: string): string {
   const active = i18n.langs.includes(lang) ? lang : i18n.default;
-  return `window.__wrnI18n=${safeJson({
+  return `${safeJson({
     lang: active,
     langs: i18n.langs,
     default: i18n.default,
@@ -437,7 +448,12 @@ export function renderI18nData(i18n: ResolvedI18n, lang: string): string {
     directions: i18n.direction,
     labels: i18n.labels,
     cookie: i18n.cookie,
-  })};`;
+  })}`;
+}
+
+/** The full JSON block, including its script tag. */
+export function renderI18nDataTag(i18n: ResolvedI18n, lang: string): string {
+  return `<script type="application/json" ${I18N_DATA_ATTRIBUTE}>${renderI18nData(i18n, lang)}</script>`;
 }
 
 export const I18N_RUNTIME = String.raw`
@@ -457,7 +473,23 @@ export const I18N_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       return params && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(params, name) ? String(params[name]) : "{" + name + "}";
     });
   }
-  function state() { return window.__wrnI18n || {}; }
+  function readDataBlock() {
+    var node = document.querySelector('script[type="application/json"][data-wrn-i18n]');
+    if (!node) return null;
+    try {
+      return JSON.parse(node.textContent || "{}");
+    } catch (error) {
+      console.error("[wrnexus] i18n data block was not valid JSON", error);
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+  function state() {
+    if (!window.__wrnI18n) {
+      var data = readDataBlock();
+      if (data) window.__wrnI18n = data;
+    }
+    return window.__wrnI18n || {};
+  }
   function t(key, params) {
     var current = state();
     return interpolate(lookup(current.messages, key) || lookup(current.fallbackMessages, key) || key, params);

packages/i18n/test/i18n-data-block.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { I18N_RUNTIME, renderI18nData, renderI18nDataTag, resolveI18n } from "../src/index.ts";
+
+const i18n = resolveI18n({ en: { hello: "Hello" }, es: { hello: "Hola" } }, { default: "en" });
+
+test("the i18n payload is plain JSON, not an assignment", () => {
+  const data = renderI18nData(i18n, "en");
+  expect(() => JSON.parse(data)).not.toThrow();
+  expect(data).not.toContain("window.__wrnI18n");
+});
+
+test("the data tag is a non-executable JSON block", () => {
+  // An executable inline script is subject to script-src and gets blocked
+  // whenever the document's CSP nonce came from a different response, which is
+  // what left window.__wrnI18n undefined. A JSON block is never executed.
+  const tag = renderI18nDataTag(i18n, "es");
+  expect(tag).toContain('type="application/json"');
+  expect(tag).toContain("data-wrn-i18n");
+  expect(tag).not.toContain("nonce=");
+  expect(tag).toContain("Hola");
+});
+
+test("the i18n runtime reads the data block instead of relying on an inline assignment", () => {
+  expect(I18N_RUNTIME).toContain('script[type="application/json"][data-wrn-i18n]');
+});

packages/language-server/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/language-server",
-  "version": "0.8.9",
+  "version": "0.8.11",
   "type": "module",
   "description": "Editor-neutral Language Server Protocol implementation for WRNexus .wrn files.",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@wrnexus/syntax": "workspace:*",
-    "@wrnexus/typecheck": "workspace:*"
+    "@wrnexus/typecheck": "workspace:*",
+    "vscode-html-languageservice": "^5.6.2"
   }
 }

packages/language-server/src/html-regions.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+import type { TextDocument } from "./index.ts";
+
+export interface HtmlRegion {
+  start: number;
+  end: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Byte ranges of the markup inside each `view { }` block.
+ *
+ * This is a tolerant scanner rather than the parser: completion fires while
+ * the document is being typed, which is exactly when it does not parse.
+ */
+export function viewRegions(text: string): HtmlRegion[] {
+  const regions: HtmlRegion[] = [];
+  const pattern = /\bview\s*\{/g;
+  let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
+
+  while ((match = pattern.exec(text))) {
+    const bodyStart = match.index + match[0].length;
+    const end = matchingBrace(text, bodyStart);
+    regions.push({ start: bodyStart, end });
+    pattern.lastIndex = end;
+  }
+  return regions;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Offset of the brace closing the block that starts at `from`, or the end of
+ * the text when it is never closed (an unterminated block is normal mid-edit).
+ *
+ * Quotes are only tracked inside a tag, never in text content: `<p>it's</p>`
+ * would otherwise open a string that never closes and swallow the rest of the
+ * file.
+ */
+function matchingBrace(text: string, from: number): number {
+  let depth = 1;
+  let inTag = false;
+  let quote: string | null = null;
+
+  for (let index = from; index < text.length; index += 1) {
+    const char = text[index]!;
+
+    if (quote) {
+      if (char === quote) quote = null;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (inTag && (char === '"' || char === "'")) {
+      quote = char;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (char === "<") inTag = true;
+    else if (char === ">") inTag = false;
+    else if (char === "{") depth += 1;
+    else if (char === "}") {
+      depth -= 1;
+      if (depth === 0) return index;
+    }
+  }
+  return text.length;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A parallel document containing only the markup.
+ *
+ * Everything outside a view block becomes whitespace of the same length, and
+ * newlines are preserved, so an offset in the source is the same offset here.
+ * That removes the need for a mapping table entirely.
+ */
+export function virtualHtmlDocument(document: TextDocument): {
+  uri: string;
+  languageId: "html";
+  text: string;
+} {
+  const source = document.text;
+  const keep = new Array<boolean>(source.length).fill(false);
+  for (const region of viewRegions(source)) {
+    for (let index = region.start; index < region.end; index += 1) keep[index] = true;
+  }
+
+  let text = "";
+  for (let index = 0; index < source.length; index += 1) {
+    const char = source[index]!;
+    text += keep[index] || char === "\n" ? char : char === "\r" ? "\r" : " ";
+  }
+
+  return { uri: `${document.uri}.html`, languageId: "html", text };
+}
+
+export function isInsideHtml(document: TextDocument, offset: number): boolean {
+  return regionsFor(document).some((region) => offset >= region.start && offset <= region.end);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Regions for a document, cached by uri and version.
+ *
+ * A single keystroke produces a burst of completion, hover, and tag-close
+ * requests; without this each one rescans the file.
+ */
+const regionCache = new Map<string, { version: number; regions: HtmlRegion[] }>();
+
+function regionsFor(document: TextDocument): HtmlRegion[] {
+  // Documents without a version have no way to signal changes, so bypass cache.
+  if (document.version === undefined) {
+    return viewRegions(document.text);
+  }
+
+  const cached = regionCache.get(document.uri);
+  if (cached && cached.version === document.version) return cached.regions;
+
+  const regions = viewRegions(document.text);
+  regionCache.set(document.uri, { version: document.version, regions });
+  return regions;
+}
+
+/** Drops a document's cached regions. Call when a document closes. */
+export function clearHtmlRegionCache(uri?: string): void {
+  if (uri) regionCache.delete(uri);
+  else regionCache.clear();
+}

packages/language-server/src/html-service.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+// The default `main` entrypoint is a UMD bundle whose internal AMD-style
+// `require("./parser/htmlScanner")` calls survive bundling literally instead
+// of being inlined, so a bundled language server fails at runtime with
+// "Cannot find module './parser/htmlScanner'". The ESM entrypoint bundles
+// cleanly, so import it explicitly.
+import {
+  getLanguageService,
+  TextDocument as HtmlTextDocument,
+} from "vscode-html-languageservice/lib/esm/htmlLanguageService.js";
+import { isInsideHtml, virtualHtmlDocument } from "./html-regions.ts";
+import { offsetAt, type Position, type TextDocument } from "./index.ts";
+
+export interface HtmlCompletionItem {
+  label: string;
+  kind: number;
+  detail?: string;
+  documentation?: string;
+  sortText?: string;
+  insertText?: string;
+}
+
+const service = getLanguageService();
+
+/** The virtual document as the HTML service's own document type. */
+function htmlDocument(document: TextDocument) {
+  const virtual = virtualHtmlDocument(document);
+  return HtmlTextDocument.create(virtual.uri, "html", document.version ?? 1, virtual.text);
+}
+
+function markdown(value: unknown): string | undefined {
+  if (typeof value === "string") return value || undefined;
+  if (value && typeof value === "object" && "value" in value) {
+    return String((value as { value: unknown }).value) || undefined;
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}
+
+/**
+ * HTML completions for a position inside a view block.
+ *
+ * Every item carries the `1` sortText prefix so the server can rank WRNexus
+ * entries above these without filtering either list.
+ */
+export function htmlCompletions(document: TextDocument, position: Position): HtmlCompletionItem[] {
+  if (!isInsideHtml(document, offsetAt(document.text, position))) return [];
+
+  const virtual = htmlDocument(document);
+  const parsed = service.parseHTMLDocument(virtual);
+  const list = service.doComplete(virtual, position, parsed);
+
+  return list.items.map((item) => ({
+    label: item.label,
+    kind: typeof item.kind === "number" ? item.kind : 1,
+    detail: item.detail,
+    documentation: markdown(item.documentation),
+    sortText: `1${item.sortText ?? item.label}`,
+    insertText: item.textEdit && "newText" in item.textEdit ? item.textEdit.newText : undefined,
+  }));
+}
+
+export function htmlHover(document: TextDocument, position: Position): { contents: string } | null {
+  if (!isInsideHtml(document, offsetAt(document.text, position))) return null;
+
+  const virtual = htmlDocument(document);
+  const result = service.doHover(virtual, position, service.parseHTMLDocument(virtual));
+  if (!result) return null;
+
+  const contents = markdown(result.contents);
+  return contents ? { contents } : null;
+}
+
+export function htmlFoldingRanges(
+  document: TextDocument,
+): Array<{ startLine: number; endLine: number }> {
+  return service
+    .getFoldingRanges(htmlDocument(document))
+    .map((range) => ({ startLine: range.startLine, endLine: range.endLine }));
+}
+
+/** Ranges of the opening and closing tag names, so renaming one renames both. */
+export function htmlLinkedEditingRanges(
+  document: TextDocument,
+  position: Position,
+): Array<{ start: Position; end: Position }> | null {
+  if (!isInsideHtml(document, offsetAt(document.text, position))) return null;
+
+  const virtual = htmlDocument(document);
+  const ranges = service.findLinkedEditingRanges(
+    virtual,
+    position,
+    service.parseHTMLDocument(virtual),
+  );
+  return ranges && ranges.length ? ranges : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Detects `<Name attr="x" /` just before `position` and completes the `>`.
+ *
+ * `vscode-html-languageservice`'s own `doTagComplete` only reacts to a typed
+ * `/` when it opens an end tag (`</`); it has no notion of a self-closing
+ * start tag, since plain HTML has no such elements outside its fixed void-element
+ * list. WRNexus components (`<Card />`) are exactly that case, so we complete
+ * it ourselves rather than relying on the library.
+ *
+ * The scan tracks quote state from the tag's opening `<` up to `offset` (quotes
+ * are only meaningful inside a tag) so a `/` inside an attribute value — e.g. the
+ * first slash of `href="https://..."` — never misfires as a self-close: the
+ * library already returns `null` there on purpose, because the cursor sits in an
+ * attribute value, not a tag-close position.
+ */
+function selfClosingTagCompletion(text: string, offset: number): string | null {
+  if (text.charAt(offset - 1) !== "/") return null;
+  if (text.charAt(offset) === ">") return null;
+
+  const tagStart = text.lastIndexOf("<", offset - 1);
+  if (tagStart < 0) return null;
+  if (!/^<[A-Za-z][\w-]*/.test(text.slice(tagStart))) return null;
+
+  let quote: '"' | "'" | null = null;
+  for (let i = tagStart + 1; i < offset - 1; i++) {
+    const ch = text[i];
+    if (quote) {
+      if (ch === quote) quote = null;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === '"' || ch === "'") {
+      quote = ch;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === "<" || ch === ">") return null;
+  }
+  if (quote) return null;
+
+  return ">";
+}
+
+/**
+ * The snippet that closes the tag being typed, or null.
+ *
+ * Void elements and already-closed tags return null, which is why this decision
+ * belongs here rather than in the editor client.
+ */
+export function htmlTagComplete(document: TextDocument, position: Position): string | null {
+  const offset = offsetAt(document.text, position);
+  if (!isInsideHtml(document, offset)) return null;
+
+  const virtual = htmlDocument(document);
+  const result = service.doTagComplete(virtual, position, service.parseHTMLDocument(virtual));
+  if (result) return result;
+
+  return selfClosingTagCompletion(document.text, offset);
+}
+
+/**
+ * One completion list from both sources.
+ *
+ * WRNexus entries take the `0` sortText prefix so they rank above HTML without
+ * either list being filtered. An exact label collision resolves to the
+ * WRNexus entry: a component named `Table` is what the author meant.
+ */
+interface CompletionLike {
+  label: string;
+  kind?: number;
+  sortText?: string;
+}
+
+export function mergeCompletions(
+  wrnexus: CompletionLike[],
+  html: CompletionLike[],
+): CompletionLike[] {
+  const taken = new Set(wrnexus.map((item) => item.label));
+  return [
+    ...wrnexus.map((item) => ({ ...item, sortText: `0${item.sortText ?? item.label}` })),
+    ...html.filter((item) => !taken.has(item.label)),
+  ];
+}

packages/language-server/src/server.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ import {
   htmlToWrn,
   type TextDocument,
 } from "./index.ts";
+import {
+  htmlCompletions,
+  htmlFoldingRanges,
+  htmlHover,
+  htmlLinkedEditingRanges,
+  htmlTagComplete,
+  mergeCompletions,
+} from "./html-service.ts";
+import { clearHtmlRegionCache } from "./html-regions.ts";
 
 type JsonRpc = { jsonrpc?: string; id?: number | string; method?: string; params?: any };
 const documents = new Map<string, TextDocument>();
@@ -111,8 +120,12 @@ async function handle(message: JsonRpc): Promise<void> {
         capabilities: {
           textDocumentSync: { openClose: true, change: 1, save: true },
           documentFormattingProvider: true,
-          completionProvider: { triggerCharacters: ["<", "@", ":", "."] },
+          completionProvider: {
+            triggerCharacters: ["<", "@", ":", ".", " ", "=", '"', "/"],
+          },
           hoverProvider: true,
+          foldingRangeProvider: true,
+          linkedEditingRangeProvider: true,
           definitionProvider: true,
           referencesProvider: true,
           renameProvider: { prepareProvider: true },
@@ -172,6 +185,7 @@ async function handle(message: JsonRpc): Promise<void> {
     case "textDocument/didClose":
       clearDiagnosticTimer(params.textDocument.uri);
       documents.delete(params.textDocument.uri);
+      clearHtmlRegionCache(params.textDocument.uri);
       send({
         jsonrpc: "2.0",
         method: "textDocument/publishDiagnostics",
@@ -195,9 +209,13 @@ async function handle(message: JsonRpc): Promise<void> {
       );
       break;
     }
-    case "textDocument/completion":
+    case "textDocument/completion": {
-      result(message.id, [...completionItems(), ...workspaceCompletionItems(workspaceRoot)]);
+      const document = documents.get(params.textDocument.uri);
+      const wrnexus = [...completionItems(), ...workspaceCompletionItems(workspaceRoot)];
+      const html = document ? htmlCompletions(document, params.position) : [];
+      result(message.id, html.length ? mergeCompletions(wrnexus, html) : wrnexus);
       break;
+    }
     case "textDocument/documentSymbol": {
       const document = documents.get(params.textDocument.uri);
       result(message.id, document ? documentSymbols(document) : []);
@@ -210,7 +228,24 @@ async function handle(message: JsonRpc): Promise<void> {
     }
     case "textDocument/hover": {
       const document = documents.get(params.textDocument.uri);
-      result(message.id, document ? hover(document, params.position) : null);
+      const html = document ? htmlHover(document, params.position) : null;
+      result(message.id, html ?? (document ? hover(document, params.position) : null));
+      break;
+    }
+    case "textDocument/foldingRange": {
+      const document = documents.get(params.textDocument.uri);
+      result(message.id, document ? htmlFoldingRanges(document) : []);
+      break;
+    }
+    case "textDocument/linkedEditingRange": {
+      const document = documents.get(params.textDocument.uri);
+      const ranges = document ? htmlLinkedEditingRanges(document, params.position) : null;
+      result(message.id, ranges ? { ranges } : null);
+      break;
+    }
+    case "wrn/tagComplete": {
+      const document = documents.get(params.textDocument.uri);
+      result(message.id, document ? htmlTagComplete(document, params.position) : null);
       break;
     }
     case "textDocument/definition": {

packages/language-server/test/fixtures/html-editing-check.wrn

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+page HtmlEditingCheck {
+  seo {
+    title = "HTML editing check"
+    description = "Scratch page for verifying editor support inside view blocks."
+    canonical = "/html-editing-check"
+  }
+
+  view {
+    <main>
+      <h1>Editor check</h1>
+    </main>
+  }
+}

packages/language-server/test/html-editing-e2e.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { positionAt } from "../src/index.ts";
+
+// End-to-end verification (Task 8): drives the real language server, over
+// real LSP stdio framing, against a realistic WRN page fixture. The page's
+// text is read from disk rather than duplicated here, so the fixture remains
+// reusable and independently inspectable.
+
+const pagePath = join(
+  fileURLToPath(new URL(".", import.meta.url)),
+  "fixtures/html-editing-check.wrn",
+);
+const pageText = readFileSync(pagePath, "utf8");
+
+function packet(value: unknown): Uint8Array {
+  const body = JSON.stringify(value);
+  return new TextEncoder().encode(`Content-Length: ${Buffer.byteLength(body)}\r\n\r\n${body}`);
+}
+
+async function withServer<T>(
+  run: (
+    send: (msg: unknown) => Promise<void>,
+    readUntil: (marker: string) => Promise<string>,
+  ) => Promise<T>,
+): Promise<T> {
+  const process = Bun.spawn(
+    ["bun", "run", fileURLToPath(new URL("../src/server.ts", import.meta.url))],
+    { stdin: "pipe", stdout: "pipe", stderr: "pipe" },
+  );
+  const reader = process.stdout.getReader();
+  let output = "";
+  async function readUntil(marker: string): Promise<string> {
+    while (!output.includes(marker)) {
+      const chunk = await reader.read();
+      if (chunk.done) break;
+      output += new TextDecoder().decode(chunk.value);
+    }
+    return output.slice(output.indexOf(marker));
+  }
+  async function send(message: unknown): Promise<void> {
+    process.stdin.write(packet(message));
+    await process.stdin.flush();
+  }
+  try {
+    return await run(send, readUntil);
+  } finally {
+    process.kill();
+    await process.exited;
+  }
+}
+
+test("HTML editor support works end-to-end against the real scratch page", async () => {
+  const uri = "file:///html-editing-check.wrn";
+
+  // Positions derived from the real file content, not hardcoded line/column
+  // literals, so the test tracks the page if it changes.
+  const viewOpenBrace = pageText.indexOf("view {");
+  const viewCloseBrace = pageText.indexOf("}", pageText.indexOf("</main>"));
+  const h1TagOffset = pageText.indexOf("<h1>") + 1; // inside "h1"
+  const mainOpenNameOffset = pageText.indexOf("<main>") + 1; // inside "main" opening tag name
+  const mainOpenTagEndOffset = pageText.indexOf("<main>") + "<main>".length; // just after '>'
+  const seoTitleOffset = pageText.indexOf('title = "HTML editing check"'); // inside the seo block
+
+  // Simulate typing "<" inside the seo {} block: insert the character into a
+  // copy of the real page text (the checked-in file itself is never
+  // mutated) and ask for completion right after it. This is the scenario
+  // that actually exercises the view-region guard: if the guard were
+  // defeated, this exact position is where the HTML language service would
+  // offer tag completions, because it is positioned directly after an
+  // unclosed "<".
+  const seoInjectedText = pageText.slice(0, seoTitleOffset) + "<" + pageText.slice(seoTitleOffset);
+  const seoInjectedPosition = positionAt(seoInjectedText, seoTitleOffset + 1);
+
+  const viewPosition = positionAt(pageText, h1TagOffset);
+  const linkedEditingPosition = positionAt(pageText, mainOpenNameOffset);
+  const tagCompletePosition = positionAt(pageText, mainOpenTagEndOffset);
+  const viewStartLine = positionAt(pageText, viewOpenBrace).line;
+  const viewEndLine = positionAt(pageText, viewCloseBrace).line;
+
+  await withServer(async (send, readUntil) => {
+    await send({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "initialize", params: {} });
+    await readUntil('"id":1');
+
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      method: "textDocument/didOpen",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri, version: 1, text: pageText } },
+    });
+
+    // --- Completion inside view {} : HTML entries present, WRNexus sorts first ---
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 2,
+      method: "textDocument/completion",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri }, position: viewPosition },
+    });
+    const completionReply = await readUntil('"id":2');
+    // An HTML tag entry is present, tagged with the "1" (below-wrnexus) sortText prefix.
+    expect(completionReply).toMatch(/"label":"div"[^}]*"sortText":"1/);
+    // A WRNexus keyword entry is present, tagged with the "0" (above-html) sortText prefix.
+    expect(completionReply).toMatch(/"label":"page"[^}]*"sortText":"0/);
+    // No html-prefixed sortText is lexicographically smaller than any wrnexus one:
+    // every "0..." sortText must precede every "1..." sortText, which is exactly
+    // what makes WRNexus entries render above HTML ones in an editor.
+    expect(completionReply).not.toMatch(/"sortText":"1[^"]*"[\s\S]*"sortText":"0/);
+
+    // --- Negative case: completion right after "<" typed inside seo {} must NOT include HTML entries ---
+    const seoUri = "file:///html-editing-check-seo-inject.wrn";
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      method: "textDocument/didOpen",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri: seoUri, version: 1, text: seoInjectedText } },
+    });
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 3,
+      method: "textDocument/completion",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri: seoUri }, position: seoInjectedPosition },
+    });
+    const seoReply = await readUntil('"id":3');
+    expect(seoReply).not.toContain('"label":"div"');
+    expect(seoReply).not.toContain('"label":"span"');
+    expect(seoReply).not.toContain('"label":"h1"');
+    expect(seoReply).not.toMatch(/"sortText":"1/);
+
+    // --- Hover over a tag inside the view block returns documentation ---
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 4,
+      method: "textDocument/hover",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri }, position: viewPosition },
+    });
+    const hoverReply = await readUntil('"id":4');
+    expect(hoverReply).toContain('"contents"');
+    expect(hoverReply).not.toMatch(/"result":\s*null/);
+
+    // --- Folding ranges are returned and all lie within the view block ---
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 5,
+      method: "textDocument/foldingRange",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri } },
+    });
+    const foldReply = await readUntil('"id":5');
+    expect(foldReply).toContain('"result":[');
+    const foldBody = foldReply.slice(foldReply.indexOf('"result":['));
+    const foldRanges = [...foldBody.matchAll(/"startLine":(\d+),"endLine":(\d+)/g)];
+    expect(foldRanges.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    for (const [, start, end] of foldRanges) {
+      expect(Number(start)).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(viewStartLine);
+      expect(Number(end)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(viewEndLine);
+    }
+
+    // --- Linked editing at the <main> opening tag name returns two ranges ---
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 6,
+      method: "textDocument/linkedEditingRange",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri }, position: linkedEditingPosition },
+    });
+    const linkedReply = await readUntil('"id":6');
+    expect(linkedReply).toContain('"ranges"');
+    const rangeCount = (linkedReply.match(/"start":\{/g) ?? []).length;
+    expect(rangeCount).toBe(2);
+
+    // --- wrn/tagComplete after <main> returns the closing snippet ---
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 7,
+      method: "wrn/tagComplete",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri }, position: tagCompletePosition },
+    });
+    const tagCompleteReply = await readUntil('"id":7');
+    expect(tagCompleteReply).toContain('"result":"$0</main>"');
+
+    // --- wrn/tagComplete for a void element (<br>) returns null ---
+    const voidText = `page A {\n  view {\n    <br>\n  }\n}\n`;
+    const voidUri = "file:///html-editing-check-void.wrn";
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      method: "textDocument/didOpen",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri: voidUri, version: 1, text: voidText } },
+    });
+    const brOffset = voidText.indexOf("<br>") + "<br>".length;
+    const brPosition = positionAt(voidText, brOffset);
+    await send({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 8,
+      method: "wrn/tagComplete",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri: voidUri }, position: brPosition },
+    });
+    const voidReply = await readUntil('"id":8');
+    expect(voidReply).toContain('"result":null');
+  });
+});

packages/language-server/test/html-regions.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import {
+  clearHtmlRegionCache,
+  isInsideHtml,
+  viewRegions,
+  virtualHtmlDocument,
+} from "../src/html-regions.ts";
+
+function doc(text: string): { uri: string; text: string; version?: number } {
+  return { uri: `file:///${Math.random()}.wrn`, text };
+}
+
+const PAGE = `page Home {
+  view {
+    <div class="card">hello</div>
+  }
+}
+`;
+
+test("the virtual document preserves length and newline offsets", () => {
+  // This is what makes position mapping unnecessary. If it breaks, every
+  // feature reports positions off by some amount instead of failing loudly.
+  const source = doc(PAGE);
+  const virtual = virtualHtmlDocument(source);
+
+  expect(virtual.text.length).toBe(source.text.length);
+  expect(virtual.languageId).toBe("html");
+  for (let i = 0; i < source.text.length; i += 1) {
+    if (source.text[i] === "\n") expect(virtual.text[i]).toBe("\n");
+  }
+});
+
+test("markup survives into the virtual document and everything else is blanked", () => {
+  const virtual = virtualHtmlDocument(doc(PAGE));
+  expect(virtual.text).toContain('<div class="card">hello</div>');
+  expect(virtual.text).not.toContain("page Home");
+  expect(virtual.text).not.toContain("view");
+});
+
+test("an apostrophe in text content does not swallow later regions", () => {
+  // A scanner treating ' as a string delimiter anywhere considers the rest of
+  // the file one open string and loses every later region.
+  const source = `page A {
+  view {
+    <p>it's fine</p>
+  }
+}
+component B {
+  view {
+    <span>second</span>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(viewRegions(source)).toHaveLength(2);
+  expect(virtualHtmlDocument(doc(source)).text).toContain("<span>second</span>");
+});
+
+test("interpolation braces nest without ending the region early", () => {
+  const source = `page A {
+  view {
+    <div class={cond ? "a" : "b"} data-x={{ a: 1 }}>after</div>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const regions = viewRegions(source);
+  expect(regions).toHaveLength(1);
+  expect(virtualHtmlDocument(doc(source)).text).toContain("after</div>");
+});
+
+test("unparseable mid-edit markup still yields a region", () => {
+  // Completion fires exactly when the document does not parse.
+  const source = `page A {
+  view {
+    <div class="
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(viewRegions(source).length).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test("a file with no view block yields no regions and a fully blank document", () => {
+  const source = `page A {
+  functions {
+    function go() {}
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(viewRegions(source)).toEqual([]);
+  expect(virtualHtmlDocument(doc(source)).text.trim()).toBe("");
+});
+
+test("regions are cached per document version", () => {
+  // One keystroke fans out into completion, hover, and tag-close requests.
+  const first = doc(PAGE);
+  first.version = 1;
+  expect(isInsideHtml(first, PAGE.indexOf("<div"))).toBe(true);
+
+  // Same version, mutated text: the cached regions are reused, proving the
+  // scan did not run again.
+  first.text = "page A { }";
+  expect(isInsideHtml(first, PAGE.indexOf("<div"))).toBe(true);
+
+  first.version = 2;
+  expect(isInsideHtml(first, PAGE.indexOf("<div"))).toBe(false);
+});
+
+test("clearHtmlRegionCache drops a closed document's cached regions", () => {
+  // A reopened document commonly restarts at version 1. Without clearing the
+  // cache on close, that version would match the stale entry from the prior
+  // session and serve regions scanned from the old text.
+  const first = doc(PAGE);
+  first.version = 1;
+  expect(isInsideHtml(first, PAGE.indexOf("<div"))).toBe(true);
+
+  clearHtmlRegionCache(first.uri);
+
+  // Same uri, same version 1, but a document with no view block at all: if
+  // the cache had survived, this would still report true from the old scan.
+  const reopened = { uri: first.uri, text: "page A { }", version: 1 };
+  expect(isInsideHtml(reopened, PAGE.indexOf("<div"))).toBe(false);
+});
+
+test("isInsideHtml distinguishes markup from surrounding code", () => {
+  const source = doc(PAGE);
+  const markupOffset = PAGE.indexOf("<div");
+  const keywordOffset = PAGE.indexOf("page");
+
+  expect(isInsideHtml(source, markupOffset)).toBe(true);
+  expect(isInsideHtml(source, keywordOffset)).toBe(false);
+});
+
+test("documents without a version field scan every time and detect mutations", () => {
+  // Without a version, the cache has no key to validate freshness. Mutations
+  // must be detected on every call, even when uri and document are reused.
+  const source = doc(PAGE);
+  // Explicitly verify version is undefined (not set by doc() helper).
+  expect(source.version).toBeUndefined();
+
+  const markupOffset = PAGE.indexOf("<div");
+  expect(isInsideHtml(source, markupOffset)).toBe(true);
+
+  // Mutate the text: remove the view block.
+  source.text = "page A { }";
+  // Same uri, same missing version, but different text: mutation must be detected.
+  expect(isInsideHtml(source, markupOffset)).toBe(false);
+});

packages/language-server/test/html-service.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import {
+  htmlCompletions,
+  htmlFoldingRanges,
+  htmlHover,
+  htmlLinkedEditingRanges,
+  htmlTagComplete,
+} from "../src/html-service.ts";
+
+function doc(text: string) {
+  return { uri: "file:///Page.wrn", text };
+}
+
+function positionOf(text: string, needle: string) {
+  const offset = text.indexOf(needle) + needle.length;
+  const before = text.slice(0, offset);
+  const lines = before.split("\n");
+  return { line: lines.length - 1, character: lines[lines.length - 1]!.length };
+}
+
+test("suggests HTML tags inside a view block", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const items = htmlCompletions(doc(text), positionOf(text, "    <"));
+  expect(items.some((item) => item.label === "div")).toBe(true);
+  expect(items.every((item) => item.sortText?.startsWith("1"))).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("suggests attributes inside a tag", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <input 
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const items = htmlCompletions(doc(text), positionOf(text, "<input "));
+  expect(items.some((item) => item.label === "type")).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test("returns nothing outside a view block", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  functions {
+    function go() { }
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlCompletions(doc(text), positionOf(text, "function go() "))).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test("hovers a tag inside a view block and nothing outside one", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <div>x</div>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlHover(doc(text), positionOf(text, "<di"))).not.toBeNull();
+
+  const code = `page A {
+  functions {
+    function go() { }
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlHover(doc(code), positionOf(code, "func"))).toBeNull();
+});
+
+test("closes an open tag and leaves void elements alone", () => {
+  const open = `page A {
+  view {
+    <div>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlTagComplete(doc(open), positionOf(open, "<div>"))).toContain("</div>");
+
+  const void_ = `page A {
+  view {
+    <br>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlTagComplete(doc(void_), positionOf(void_, "<br>"))).toBeNull();
+});
+
+test("completes a self-closing component tag", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <Card /
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlTagComplete(doc(text), positionOf(text, "<Card /"))).toBe(">");
+});
+
+test("does not misfire inside a quoted attribute value containing a slash", () => {
+  const doubleQuoted = `page A {
+  view {
+    <a href="https:/
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlTagComplete(doc(doubleQuoted), positionOf(doubleQuoted, `href="https:/`))).toBeNull();
+
+  const singleQuoted = `page A {
+  view {
+    <img src='/assets/
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlTagComplete(doc(singleQuoted), positionOf(singleQuoted, `src='/assets/`))).toBeNull();
+});
+
+test("still completes a self-close after a preceding attribute", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <Card title="x" /
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlTagComplete(doc(text), positionOf(text, `title="x" /`))).toBe(">");
+});
+
+test("returns no tag completion outside a view block", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  functions {
+    function go() { }
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlTagComplete(doc(text), positionOf(text, "function go() "))).toBeNull();
+});
+
+test("folding ranges stay inside view regions", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <ul>
+      <li>one</li>
+    </ul>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const ranges = htmlFoldingRanges(doc(text));
+  expect(ranges.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+  const viewStartLine = text.slice(0, text.indexOf("view {")).split("\n").length - 1;
+  for (const range of ranges) expect(range.startLine).toBeGreaterThan(viewStartLine - 1);
+});
+
+import { mergeCompletions } from "../src/html-service.ts";
+
+test("merging ranks WRNexus entries above HTML and drops exact collisions", () => {
+  const merged = mergeCompletions(
+    [
+      { label: "Card", kind: 7 },
+      { label: "table", kind: 7 },
+    ],
+    [
+      { label: "div", kind: 10, sortText: "1div" },
+      { label: "table", kind: 10, sortText: "1table" },
+    ],
+  );
+
+  const labels = merged.map((item) => item.label);
+  expect(labels.filter((label) => label === "table")).toHaveLength(1);
+  expect(merged.find((item) => item.label === "Card")?.sortText?.startsWith("0")).toBe(true);
+  expect(merged.find((item) => item.label === "div")?.sortText?.startsWith("1")).toBe(true);
+
+  const sorted = [...merged].sort((a, b) => (a.sortText ?? "").localeCompare(b.sortText ?? ""));
+  expect(sorted[0]!.label).toBe("Card");
+});
+
+test("linked editing returns both the opening and closing tag names", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <div>x</div>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const ranges = htmlLinkedEditingRanges(doc(text), positionOf(text, "<di"));
+  expect(ranges).not.toBeNull();
+  expect(ranges).toHaveLength(2);
+});
+
+test("linked editing returns null outside a view block", () => {
+  const text = `page A {
+  functions {
+    function go() { }
+  }
+}
+`;
+  expect(htmlLinkedEditingRanges(doc(text), positionOf(text, "func"))).toBeNull();
+});

packages/language-server/test/language-server.test.ts

@@ -217,3 +217,207 @@ test("coalesces rapid document changes into one pending diagnostic analysis", as
   process.kill();
   await process.exited;
 });
+
+test("didClose drops the region cache so a reopened document at the same version is rescanned", async () => {
+  // Regression coverage for the didClose wiring in server.ts: without the
+  // clearHtmlRegionCache(uri) call there, a document that closes and reopens
+  // at version 1 (a common restart point) matches the stale cache entry from
+  // the prior session. Open first WITHOUT a view block (caching "no HTML
+  // here" for this uri/version), close, then reopen the SAME uri at the SAME
+  // version WITH a view block covering the same offset: correct behaviour
+  // rescans and finds it, a stale cache still says "no HTML here" and
+  // suppresses the completions entirely.
+  const process = Bun.spawn(
+    ["bun", "run", fileURLToPath(new URL("../src/server.ts", import.meta.url))],
+    { stdin: "pipe", stdout: "pipe", stderr: "pipe" },
+  );
+  const uri = "file:///reopen.wrn";
+  const withoutView = `page A {
+  functions {
+    x
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const withView = `page A {
+  view {
+    <
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const position = { line: 2, character: 5 };
+  const reader = process.stdout.getReader();
+  let output = "";
+  async function readUntil(marker: string): Promise<void> {
+    while (!output.includes(marker)) {
+      const chunk = await reader.read();
+      if (chunk.done) break;
+      output += new TextDecoder().decode(chunk.value);
+    }
+  }
+
+  process.stdin.write(packet({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "initialize", params: {} }));
+  await process.stdin.flush();
+  await readUntil('"id":1');
+
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      method: "textDocument/didOpen",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri, version: 1, text: withoutView } },
+    }),
+  );
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 2,
+      method: "textDocument/completion",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri }, position },
+    }),
+  );
+  await process.stdin.flush();
+  await readUntil('"id":2');
+  const firstReply = output.slice(output.indexOf('"id":2'));
+  expect(firstReply).not.toContain('"label":"div"');
+
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({ jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "textDocument/didClose", params: { textDocument: { uri } } }),
+  );
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      method: "textDocument/didOpen",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri, version: 1, text: withView } },
+    }),
+  );
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 3,
+      method: "textDocument/completion",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri }, position },
+    }),
+  );
+  await process.stdin.flush();
+  await readUntil('"id":3');
+  const secondReply = output.slice(output.indexOf('"id":3'));
+  expect(secondReply).toContain('"label":"div"');
+
+  process.kill();
+  await process.exited;
+});
+
+test("advertises and serves folding ranges and linked editing ranges over the wire", async () => {
+  const process = Bun.spawn(
+    ["bun", "run", fileURLToPath(new URL("../src/server.ts", import.meta.url))],
+    { stdin: "pipe", stdout: "pipe", stderr: "pipe" },
+  );
+  const uri = "file:///fold.wrn";
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <div>x</div>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const reader = process.stdout.getReader();
+  let output = "";
+  async function readUntil(marker: string): Promise<void> {
+    while (!output.includes(marker)) {
+      const chunk = await reader.read();
+      if (chunk.done) break;
+      output += new TextDecoder().decode(chunk.value);
+    }
+  }
+
+  process.stdin.write(packet({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "initialize", params: {} }));
+  await process.stdin.flush();
+  await readUntil('"id":1');
+  const initReply = output.slice(output.indexOf('"id":1'));
+  expect(initReply).toContain('"foldingRangeProvider":true');
+  expect(initReply).toContain('"linkedEditingRangeProvider":true');
+
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      method: "textDocument/didOpen",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri, version: 1, text } },
+    }),
+  );
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 2,
+      method: "textDocument/foldingRange",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri } },
+    }),
+  );
+  await process.stdin.flush();
+  await readUntil('"id":2');
+  const foldReply = output.slice(output.indexOf('"id":2'));
+  expect(foldReply).toContain('"result":[');
+
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 3,
+      method: "textDocument/linkedEditingRange",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri }, position: { line: 2, character: 6 } },
+    }),
+  );
+  await process.stdin.flush();
+  await readUntil('"id":3');
+  const linkedReply = output.slice(output.indexOf('"id":3'));
+  expect(linkedReply).toContain('"ranges"');
+
+  process.kill();
+  await process.exited;
+});
+
+test("serves wrn/tagComplete over the wire", async () => {
+  const process = Bun.spawn(
+    ["bun", "run", fileURLToPath(new URL("../src/server.ts", import.meta.url))],
+    { stdin: "pipe", stdout: "pipe", stderr: "pipe" },
+  );
+  const uri = "file:///tag-complete.wrn";
+  const text = `page A {
+  view {
+    <div>
+  }
+}
+`;
+  const reader = process.stdout.getReader();
+  let output = "";
+  async function readUntil(marker: string): Promise<void> {
+    while (!output.includes(marker)) {
+      const chunk = await reader.read();
+      if (chunk.done) break;
+      output += new TextDecoder().decode(chunk.value);
+    }
+  }
+
+  process.stdin.write(packet({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "initialize", params: {} }));
+  await process.stdin.flush();
+  await readUntil('"id":1');
+
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      method: "textDocument/didOpen",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri, version: 1, text } },
+    }),
+  );
+  process.stdin.write(
+    packet({
+      jsonrpc: "2.0",
+      id: 2,
+      method: "wrn/tagComplete",
+      params: { textDocument: { uri }, position: { line: 2, character: 9 } },
+    }),
+  );
+  await process.stdin.flush();
+  await readUntil('"id":2');
+  const reply = output.slice(output.indexOf('"id":2'));
+  expect(reply).toContain('"result":"$0</div>"');
+
+  process.kill();
+  await process.exited;
+});

packages/react/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/react",
-  "version": "0.8.8",
+  "version": "0.8.9",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
   "exports": {

packages/react/src/island-runtime.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@ import { createRoot, type Root } from "react-dom/client";
 import { IslandErrorBoundary } from "./error-boundary.tsx";
 
 export interface MountOptions {
-  loader: (name: string) => Promise<{ default: ComponentType<any> }>;
+  /**
+   * Resolve an island module by name.
+   *
+   * `generation` counts remounts. A rebuilt island keeps its URL and the
+   * browser caches a module by URL, so a dev loader must fold this into the
+   * request or the page keeps running the code it first imported.
+   */
+  loader: (name: string, generation: number) => Promise<{ default: ComponentType<any> }>;
   development?: boolean;
   /**
    * Re-render islands that are already mounted instead of skipping them.
@@ -16,6 +23,7 @@ export interface MountOptions {
 }
 
 const roots = new Map<Element, Root>();
+let generation = 0;
 
 export function islandRootCount(): number {
   return roots.size;
@@ -32,8 +40,40 @@ function readProps(element: Element): Record<string, unknown> {
   }
 }
 
-function whenReady(element: Element, strategy: string): Promise<void> {
+function rectOf(element: Element): DOMRect | null {
-  if (strategy === "visible" && typeof IntersectionObserver !== "undefined") {
+  const measure = (element as HTMLElement).getBoundingClientRect;
+  return typeof measure === "function" ? (element as HTMLElement).getBoundingClientRect() : null;
+}
+
+function inViewport(element: Element): boolean {
+  const rect = rectOf(element);
+  if (!rect) return false;
+
+  const height = window.innerHeight || document.documentElement?.clientHeight || 0;
+  const width = window.innerWidth || document.documentElement?.clientWidth || 0;
+
+  return rect.top <= height && rect.bottom >= 0 && rect.left <= width && rect.right >= 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve once the island's placeholder has come into view.
+ *
+ * An island renders nothing until it mounts, so its placeholder is usually
+ * zero-height -- and IntersectionObserver does not treat a zero-area target
+ * consistently. When it declines to report one, the island never mounts at
+ * all, which is silent: the markup and every asset are present and correct.
+ * Those are driven from the element's own rect instead; a placeholder with
+ * real size (an SSR fallback, or a reserved min-height) still uses the
+ * observer, which is cheaper and needs no scroll listener.
+ */
+function whenVisible(element: Element): Promise<void> {
+  if (typeof window === "undefined") return Promise.resolve();
+  if (inViewport(element)) return Promise.resolve();
+
+  const rect = rectOf(element);
+  const hasArea = !!rect && rect.width > 0 && rect.height > 0;
+
+  if (hasArea && typeof IntersectionObserver !== "undefined") {
     return new Promise((resolve) => {
       const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => {
         if (entries.some((entry) => entry.isIntersecting)) {
@@ -44,6 +84,26 @@ function whenReady(element: Element, strategy: string): Promise<void> {
       observer.observe(element);
     });
   }
+
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const check = () => {
+      if (!inViewport(element)) return;
+      cleanup();
+      resolve();
+    };
+    const cleanup = () => {
+      window.removeEventListener("scroll", check, true);
+      window.removeEventListener("resize", check);
+    };
+
+    // Capture phase so a scrolling container, not just the page, wakes it.
+    window.addEventListener("scroll", check, true);
+    window.addEventListener("resize", check);
+  });
+}
+
+function whenReady(element: Element, strategy: string): Promise<void> {
+  if (strategy === "visible") return whenVisible(element);
   if (strategy === "idle" && typeof requestIdleCallback !== "undefined") {
     return new Promise((resolve) => requestIdleCallback(() => resolve()));
   }
@@ -65,7 +125,7 @@ async function mountOne(element: Element, options: MountOptions): Promise<void>
 
   let Component: ComponentType<any>;
   try {
-    Component = (await options.loader(name)).default;
+    Component = (await options.loader(name, generation)).default;
   } catch (error) {
     console.error(`[wrnexus] failed to load island bundle for '${name}'`, error);
     return;
@@ -118,6 +178,10 @@ export function unmountIslands(root: ParentNode): void {
  * a runtime and is out of scope.
  */
 export async function remountIslands(root: ParentNode, options: MountOptions): Promise<void> {
+  // A remount only happens after a rebuild, so the modules on the other side
+  // of the loader have changed.
+  generation++;
+
   // Every mounted container is swapped for a bare clone before remounting.
   //
   // Re-rendering the existing root is not enough: HMR wipes the container's

packages/react/src/runtime-source.ts

@@ -8,8 +8,11 @@
 export function getIslandRuntime(development = false): string {
   return `
 (function () {
-  function loader(name) {
+  function loader(name, generation) {
-    return import("/__wrnexus/island/" + encodeURIComponent(name) + ".js");
+    var url = "/__wrnexus/island/" + encodeURIComponent(name) + ".js";
+    // A rebuilt island keeps its URL, and the browser caches modules by URL,
+    // so a remount has to ask for a URL it has not imported before.
+    return import(generation ? url + "?v=" + generation : url);
   }
 
   function boot() {

packages/react/test/island-hmr.test.ts

@@ -92,3 +92,26 @@ test("remount re-renders in place instead of creating a second root", async () =
   expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(1);
   expect(window.document.body.textContent).toContain("v1");
 });
+
+test("a remount asks the loader for a newer generation than the mount did", async () => {
+  // The rebuilt island keeps its URL. Without a changing generation the dev
+  // loader re-imports the cached module and the page keeps the old code --
+  // silently, because the island still mounts and still works.
+  const window = domWith(marker);
+  const generations: number[] = [];
+  const loader = async (_name: string, generation: number) => {
+    generations.push(generation);
+    return { default: () => createElement("span", null, `gen ${generation}`) };
+  };
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    await mountIslands(host(window), { loader });
+  });
+  await act(async () => {
+    await remountIslands(host(window), { loader });
+  });
+
+  expect(generations.length).toBe(2);
+  expect(generations[1]).toBeGreaterThan(generations[0]!);
+  expect(window.document.body.textContent).toContain(`gen ${generations[1]}`);
+});

packages/react/test/island-runtime.test.ts

@@ -128,3 +128,91 @@ test("malformed props JSON falls back to empty props instead of throwing", async
   expect(window.document.body.textContent).toContain("none");
   expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(1);
 });
+
+/**
+ * Stand in for the browser's IntersectionObserver, reporting only targets that
+ * actually have area.
+ *
+ * That is the case the real one is inconsistent about: an island placeholder
+ * is empty until it mounts, so it is zero-height, and an engine that declines
+ * to report it leaves the island unmounted forever.
+ */
+function installAreaOnlyObserver(window: Window, onObserve?: () => void) {
+  const observed: Element[] = [];
+  (globalThis as any).IntersectionObserver = class {
+    constructor(private callback: (entries: { isIntersecting: boolean }[]) => void) {}
+    observe(element: Element) {
+      observed.push(element);
+      onObserve?.();
+      const rect = (element as unknown as HTMLElement).getBoundingClientRect();
+      if (rect.width > 0 && rect.height > 0) this.callback([{ isIntersecting: true }]);
+    }
+    disconnect() {}
+  };
+  return observed;
+}
+
+/** Place the island marker at a given position with a given size. */
+function positionIsland(window: Window, top: number, height: number) {
+  const element = window.document.querySelector("[data-wrn-island]") as unknown as HTMLElement;
+  element.getBoundingClientRect = () =>
+    ({ top, bottom: top + height, left: 0, right: 800, width: 800, height }) as DOMRect;
+  return element;
+}
+
+test("mounts a visible island whose placeholder has no height", async () => {
+  const window = domWith(marker("{}", "visible"));
+  installAreaOnlyObserver(window);
+  positionIsland(window, 40, 0);
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    await mountIslands(host(window), { loader });
+  });
+
+  expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(1);
+  delete (globalThis as any).IntersectionObserver;
+});
+
+test("a visible island below the fold waits, then mounts once scrolled to", async () => {
+  const window = domWith(marker("{}", "visible"));
+  installAreaOnlyObserver(window);
+  positionIsland(window, 5000, 0);
+
+  let settled = false;
+  // Started outside act: it stays pending until the scroll, and the render it
+  // then performs is what act needs to wrap.
+  const mounting = mountIslands(host(window), { loader }).then(() => {
+    settled = true;
+  });
+
+  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 10));
+  expect(settled).toBe(false);
+  expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(0);
+
+  positionIsland(window, 100, 0);
+  await act(async () => {
+    window.dispatchEvent(new window.Event("scroll"));
+    await mounting;
+  });
+
+  expect(settled).toBe(true);
+  expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(1);
+  delete (globalThis as any).IntersectionObserver;
+});
+
+test("a placeholder with real size still goes through the observer", async () => {
+  const window = domWith(marker("{}", "visible"));
+  let observedCount = 0;
+  installAreaOnlyObserver(window, () => {
+    observedCount++;
+  });
+  positionIsland(window, 5000, 300);
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    await mountIslands(host(window), { loader });
+  });
+
+  expect(observedCount).toBe(1);
+  expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(1);
+  delete (globalThis as any).IntersectionObserver;
+});

packages/rpc/src/http.ts

@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ function parseOriginMap(value: string | undefined): Record<string, string> {
  *
  * Prefer `WRNEXUS_INTERNAL_ORIGINS` (loopback origins the gateway hands each
  * child before spawning it) over `appOrigin`, which resolves the app's
- * PUBLIC origin. The public origin is the wrong target for RPC: the gateway
+ * PUBLIC origin. The public origin is the wrong target for inter-app RPC: the
- * unconditionally 404s the reserved `/__wrnexus/rpc` prefix on anything that
+ * gateway 404s private `/__wrnexus/rpc/<service>/<procedure>` routes. (The
- * arrives at a public origin — that block is the whole point, it is what
+ * exact prefix remains the CSRF-protected browser server-function endpoint.)
- * keeps inter-app calls off the public internet. Falling back to `appOrigin`
+ * That block keeps inter-app calls off the public internet. Falling back to `appOrigin`
  * when no internal-origin map is present keeps single-app and test setups
  * (which only set `WRNEXUS_WORKSPACE_ORIGINS`) working.
  */

packages/rpc/test/integration.test.ts

@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ describe("RPC integration", () => {
     const originalInternal = process.env.WRNEXUS_INTERNAL_ORIGINS;
     try {
       // The workspace (public) origin deliberately points somewhere that
-      // cannot serve the RPC — the gateway 404s the RPC prefix on any
+      // cannot serve the RPC — the gateway 404s private nested RPC routes
-      // request that arrives at a public origin. Only the internal-origin
+      // that arrive at a public origin. Only the internal-origin
       // map points at the real server. If httpTransport() ever falls back
       // to the public origin by default again, this call fails.
       process.env.WRNEXUS_WORKSPACE_ORIGINS = JSON.stringify({

packages/syntax/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/syntax",
-  "version": "0.8.9",
+  "version": "0.8.10",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
   "exports": {

packages/syntax/src/api-sections.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+/**
+ * Parse the sectioned form of an `api` block body.
+ *
+ * Returns null when no section keyword is present, which is how the legacy
+ * bare-body form stays valid: the caller keeps treating the body as the
+ * response expression.
+ *
+ * Detection and slicing both drive the tokenizer's own string/comment-aware
+ * scanning (`skipLiteralOrComment`, `Lexer.readBalancedBraces`) instead of a
+ * second hand-rolled brace counter, so a `}` inside a string or a `request {`
+ * mentioned in a comment can't be mistaken for a real section.
+ */
+import { Lexer, LexError, isIdentPart, isIdentStart, skipLiteralOrComment } from "./tokenizer.ts";
+
+export interface ApiFieldDecl {
+  name: string;
+  optional: boolean;
+  type: string;
+}
+
+export interface ApiSections {
+  parameters: ApiFieldDecl[];
+  body: ApiFieldDecl[];
+  response: string;
+  error: string;
+}
+
+const SECTION_NAMES = ["request", "response", "error"] as const;
+const REQUEST_SUBSECTION_NAMES = ["parameters", "body"] as const;
+
+interface Span {
+  text: string;
+  /** Offset of `text[0]` within the source that was scanned. */
+  start: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Walk `source` at brace-depth 0, looking for `name { ... }` where `name` is
+ * one of `names`. Strings, template literals, and comments are skipped via
+ * `skipLiteralOrComment` — the same rules `readBalancedBraces` uses — so a
+ * keyword mentioned inside a string or comment, or nested inside an unrelated
+ * `{ }` (e.g. an object literal in a legacy body), is never mistaken for a
+ * section. Matched blocks are sliced via `Lexer.readBalancedBraces()` itself,
+ * not a reimplementation of it.
+ */
+function scanTopLevelBlocks(source: string, names: readonly string[]): Map<string, Span> {
+  const found = new Map<string, Span>();
+  const lx = new Lexer(source);
+  let depth = 0;
+  let i = 0;
+  let atLineStart = true;
+
+  while (i < source.length) {
+    const c = source[i]!;
+
+    if (c === "\n") {
+      atLineStart = true;
+      i++;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    const skipped = skipLiteralOrComment(source, i, atLineStart);
+    if (skipped !== null) {
+      i = skipped;
+      atLineStart = false;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    if (c !== " " && c !== "\t" && c !== "\r") atLineStart = false;
+
+    if (depth === 0 && isIdentStart(c)) {
+      let j = i + 1;
+      while (j < source.length && isIdentPart(source[j]!)) j++;
+      const word = source.slice(i, j);
+
+      // Skip trivia between the identifier and a possible '{' without
+      // treating anything in between as significant yet.
+      let k = j;
+      let lineStartAtK = false;
+      while (k < source.length) {
+        const kc = source[k]!;
+        if (kc === " " || kc === "\t" || kc === "\r") {
+          k++;
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (kc === "\n") {
+          lineStartAtK = true;
+          k++;
+          continue;
+        }
+        const kSkipped = skipLiteralOrComment(source, k, lineStartAtK);
+        if (kSkipped !== null) {
+          k = kSkipped;
+          lineStartAtK = false;
+          continue;
+        }
+        break;
+      }
+
+      if (names.includes(word) && source[k] === "{") {
+        lx.pos = k;
+        const start = k + 1;
+        const text = lx.readBalancedBraces();
+        if (!found.has(word)) found.set(word, { text, start });
+        i = lx.pos;
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      i = j;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    if (c === "{") depth++;
+    else if (c === "}") depth = Math.max(0, depth - 1);
+    i++;
+  }
+
+  return found;
+}
+
+/** Rebase a span captured from `outer.text` back onto the original source. */
+function absolutize(span: Span | undefined, outer: Span | undefined): Span | undefined {
+  if (!span) return undefined;
+  return outer ? { text: span.text, start: outer.start + span.start } : span;
+}
+
+/** `name?: string` -> { name, optional, type }. Blank lines and comments are skipped. */
+function parseFields(span: Span | undefined): ApiFieldDecl[] {
+  if (!span) return [];
+  const fields: ApiFieldDecl[] = [];
+  let cursor = 0;
+
+  for (const rawLine of span.text.split("\n")) {
+    const lineOffset = span.start + cursor;
+    cursor += rawLine.length + 1;
+
+    const line = rawLine.trim().replace(/,$/, "");
+    if (!line || line.startsWith("//")) continue;
+
+    const match = /^([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*)(\?)?\s*:\s*(.+)$/.exec(line);
+    if (!match) {
+      throw new LexError(
+        `Expected "name: type" in an api request section, got "${line}" at offset ${lineOffset}`,
+      );
+    }
+
+    fields.push({ name: match[1]!, optional: match[2] === "?", type: match[3]!.trim() });
+  }
+
+  return fields;
+}
+
+export function parseApiSections(source: string): ApiSections | null {
+  const top = scanTopLevelBlocks(source, SECTION_NAMES);
+  if (top.size === 0) return null;
+
+  const request = top.get("request");
+  const sub = request
+    ? scanTopLevelBlocks(request.text, REQUEST_SUBSECTION_NAMES)
+    : new Map<string, Span>();
+
+  return {
+    parameters: parseFields(absolutize(sub.get("parameters"), request)),
+    body: parseFields(absolutize(sub.get("body"), request)),
+    response: top.get("response")?.text ?? "",
+    error: top.get("error")?.text ?? "",
+  };
+}
+
+/** True when the block declares a `request` section. */
+export function hasRequestSection(source: string): boolean {
+  return scanTopLevelBlocks(source, SECTION_NAMES).has("request");
+}

packages/syntax/src/parser.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { WRN_RUNTIME_TARGETS } from "./spec.ts";
+import { parseApiSections, hasRequestSection, type ApiSections } from "./api-sections.ts";
 
 /**
  * Recursive-descent parser for `.wrn`, producing a small AST.
@@ -148,7 +149,10 @@ export interface DataApiBlock {
   name: string;
   method: string;
   path: string;
+  /** Legacy bare body. Empty string when `sections` is set. */
   body: string;
+  /** Present only for the sectioned, typed form. */
+  sections?: ApiSections;
 }
 
 export interface ModeFunctionsBlock {
@@ -696,7 +700,20 @@ export function parse(source: string): PageAst {
                 const method = expect("ident").value.toUpperCase();
                 const path = lx.readPath();
                 const body = lx.readBalancedBraces();
-                dataApis.push({ mode, name, method, path, body });
+                const sections = parseApiSections(body);
+                if (sections && mode !== "client" && hasRequestSection(body)) {
+                  throw new ParseError(
+                    `An ssr api block cannot declare "request": there is no caller at render time to supply it. Use a client block, or a server function.`,
+                  );
+                }
+                dataApis.push({
+                  mode,
+                  name,
+                  method,
+                  path,
+                  body: sections ? "" : body,
+                  ...(sections ? { sections } : {}),
+                });
                 break;
               }
               case "functions": {

packages/syntax/src/tokenizer.ts

@@ -31,8 +31,47 @@ export interface Token {
 export class LexError extends Error {}
 
 const isWs = (c: string) => c === " " || c === "\t" || c === "\n" || c === "\r";
-const isIdentStart = (c: string) => /[A-Za-z_]/.test(c);
+export const isIdentStart = (c: string) => /[A-Za-z_]/.test(c);
-const isIdentPart = (c: string) => /[A-Za-z0-9_]/.test(c);
+export const isIdentPart = (c: string) => /[A-Za-z0-9_]/.test(c);
+
+/**
+ * Skip over a string/template literal or comment starting at `src[i]`, using
+ * the exact rules `readBalancedBraces` needs to stay comment- and
+ * string-aware: `/* block *\/` comments anywhere, `//` line comments only at
+ * the start of a line (so a bare `https://…` in view text isn't mistaken for
+ * one), and `"`, `'`, `` ` `` strings with backslash escapes.
+ *
+ * Returns the index just past what it skipped, or `null` when `src[i]` isn't
+ * the start of one of those. Exported so any other raw-body scanner that
+ * needs to walk `.wrn` source without tripping over strings or comments
+ * (e.g. the `api` section scanner) shares this logic instead of
+ * reimplementing it — a second hand-rolled scanner is how apostrophes in
+ * prose used to swallow braces.
+ */
+export function skipLiteralOrComment(src: string, i: number, atLineStart: boolean): number | null {
+  const c = src[i];
+  if (c === "/" && src[i + 1] === "*") {
+    const close = src.indexOf("*/", i + 2);
+    return close === -1 ? src.length : close + 2;
+  }
+  if (atLineStart && c === "/" && src[i + 1] === "/") {
+    const newline = src.indexOf("\n", i + 2);
+    return newline === -1 ? src.length : newline;
+  }
+  if (c === '"' || c === "'" || c === "`") {
+    let j = i + 1;
+    while (j < src.length) {
+      if (src[j] === "\\") {
+        j += 2;
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (src[j] === c) return j + 1;
+      j++;
+    }
+    return src.length;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
 
 export class Lexer {
   pos = 0;
@@ -312,46 +351,26 @@ export class Lexer {
     const start = this.pos + 1;
     let depth = 0;
     let i = this.pos;
-    let str: string | null = null;
     /** True while only whitespace has been seen since the last newline. */
     let atLineStart = false;
-    for (; i < src.length; i++) {
+    while (i < src.length) {
       const c = src[i]!;
-      if (str) {
-        if (c === "\\") {
-          i++;
-          continue;
-        }
-        if (c === str) str = null;
-        continue;
-      }
 
       if (c === "\n") {
         atLineStart = true;
+        i++;
         continue;
       }
 
-      if (c === "/" && src[i + 1] === "*") {
+      const skipped = skipLiteralOrComment(src, i, atLineStart);
-        const close = src.indexOf("*/", i + 2);
+      if (skipped !== null) {
-        if (close === -1) break; // unterminated: fall through to the error
+        i = skipped;
-        i = close + 1;
         atLineStart = false;
         continue;
       }
 
-      if (atLineStart && c === "/" && src[i + 1] === "/") {
-        const newline = src.indexOf("\n", i + 2);
-        if (newline === -1) break;
-        i = newline - 1; // let the loop's own increment land on the newline
-        continue;
-      }
-
       if (c !== " " && c !== "\t" && c !== "\r") atLineStart = false;
 
-      if (c === '"' || c === "'" || c === "`") {
-        str = c;
-        continue;
-      }
       if (c === "{") depth++;
       else if (c === "}") {
         depth--;
@@ -360,6 +379,7 @@ export class Lexer {
           return src.slice(start, i);
         }
       }
+      i++;
     }
     throw new LexError(`Unbalanced braces starting at offset ${this.pos}`);
   }

packages/syntax/test/api-block.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { parse } from "../src/index.ts";
+
+const page = (inner: string) => `page Repro {
+  client {
+${inner}
+  }
+
+  view { <main>x</main> }
+}
+`;
+
+test("parses a sectioned api block into request, response and error", () => {
+  const ast = parse(
+    page(`    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name?: string
+          age?: number
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+
+      error {
+        return []
+      }
+    }`),
+  );
+
+  const block = ast.dataApis[0]!;
+  expect(block.name).toBe("searchUsers");
+  expect(block.method).toBe("POST");
+  expect(block.path).toBe("/api/users");
+  expect(block.sections?.body).toEqual([
+    { name: "name", optional: true, type: "string" },
+    { name: "age", optional: true, type: "number" },
+  ]);
+  expect(block.sections?.response.trim()).toBe("return data.users");
+  expect(block.sections?.error.trim()).toBe("return []");
+});
+
+test("a bare body still parses as the legacy response body", () => {
+  const ast = parse(
+    page(`    api legacyUsers GET /api/users {
+      return users.length
+    }`),
+  );
+
+  const block = ast.dataApis[0]!;
+  expect(block.sections).toBeUndefined();
+  expect(block.body.trim()).toBe("return users.length");
+});
+
+test("GET parameters are parsed as required when not marked optional", () => {
+  const ast = parse(
+    page(`    api listUsers GET /api/users {
+      request {
+        parameters {
+          team: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+    }`),
+  );
+
+  expect(ast.dataApis[0]!.sections?.parameters).toEqual([
+    { name: "team", optional: false, type: "string" },
+  ]);
+});
+
+test("request inside an ssr block is rejected with a message naming the restriction", () => {
+  const source = `page Repro {
+  ssr {
+    api ssrUsers GET /api/users {
+      request {
+        parameters {
+          team: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return data.users
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  view { <main>x</main> }
+}
+`;
+
+  expect(() => parse(source)).toThrow(/ssr[\s\S]*request/i);
+});
+
+test("a brace inside a string literal in the response body does not truncate the section", () => {
+  const ast = parse(
+    page(`    api searchUsers POST /api/users {
+      request {
+        body {
+          name?: string
+        }
+      }
+
+      response {
+        return "a } weird string"
+      }
+
+      error {
+        return []
+      }
+    }`),
+  );
+
+  const block = ast.dataApis[0]!;
+  expect(block.sections?.response.trim()).toBe('return "a } weird string"');
+  expect(block.sections?.error.trim()).toBe("return []");
+});
+
+test("a legacy block whose comment or string mentions a section keyword stays legacy", () => {
+  const ast = parse(
+    page(`    api legacyUsers GET /api/users {
+      // fall back to a manual request { } if this fails
+      return "response { not a section }"
+    }`),
+  );
+
+  const block = ast.dataApis[0]!;
+  expect(block.sections).toBeUndefined();
+  expect(block.body.trim()).toBe(
+    '// fall back to a manual request { } if this fails\n      return "response { not a section }"',
+  );
+});

packages/ui/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/ui",
-  "version": "0.8.19",
+  "version": "0.8.20",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/index.ts",

packages/ui/test/ui.test.ts

@@ -1654,11 +1654,21 @@ test("carousel supports RTL, multiple slides, dragging, snap, and thumbnail layo
   expect(css).toContain('.wrn-next--carousel[data-centered="true"] .wrn-next__carousel-track');
 });
 
-test("carousel autoplay timers are available in the browser reactive runtime", async () => {
+test("carousel autoplay timers are available in the browser reactive runtime", () => {
-  const { getReactiveRuntime } = await import("../../csr/src/index.ts");
+  // Resolve them through the runtime rather than asserting on its source: the
-  const runtime = getReactiveRuntime();
+  // timers only have to be reachable from a client expression, and a substring
-  expect(runtime).toContain('name === "setInterval"');
+  // check goes stale the moment the lookup is written differently.
-  expect(runtime).toContain('name === "clearInterval"');
+  const dom = mountHtml(
+    `<div data-scope="started: 0, stopped: 0">` +
+      `<button data-on-click="started = setInterval; stopped = clearInterval">go</button>` +
+      `<span class="started" data-text="started"></span>` +
+      `<span class="stopped" data-text="stopped"></span>` +
+      `</div>`,
+  );
+  (dom.querySelector("button") as HTMLButtonElement).click();
+
+  expect(dom.querySelector(".started")?.textContent).toContain("function");
+  expect(dom.querySelector(".stopped")?.textContent).toContain("function");
 });
 
 test("carousel snap controls scroll and multiple slides stop at the last full group", async () => {

packages/validation/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@wrnexus/validation",
-  "version": "0.8.10",
+  "version": "0.8.11",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./src/index.ts",

packages/validation/src/index.ts

@@ -114,7 +114,28 @@ export function checkField(
   }
 
   if (desc.type === "boolean") {
-    const value = raw === true || raw === "true" || raw === "on";
+    const empty = raw === undefined || raw === null || raw === "";
+    let value: boolean;
+    if (typeof raw === "boolean") {
+      value = raw;
+    } else if (empty) {
+      value = false;
+    } else if (raw === 1) {
+      value = true;
+    } else if (raw === 0) {
+      value = false;
+    } else if (typeof raw === "string") {
+      const norm = raw.trim().toLowerCase();
+      if (norm === "true" || norm === "on" || norm === "1" || norm === "yes") {
+        value = true;
+      } else if (norm === "false" || norm === "off" || norm === "0" || norm === "no") {
+        value = false;
+      } else {
+        return { value: raw, error: desc.typeMessage ?? "Must be true or false" };
+      }
+    } else {
+      return { value: raw, error: desc.typeMessage ?? "Must be true or false" };
+    }
     if (!desc.optional && !value) {
       return { value, error: desc.requiredMessage || "Required" };
     }

packages/validation/src/runtime.ts

@@ -45,7 +45,28 @@ export const VALIDATE_RUNTIME = String.raw`
       return (missing && !desc.optional) ? (desc.requiredMessage || "Required") : null;
     }
     if (desc.type === "boolean") {
-      var b = raw === true || raw === "true" || raw === "on";
+      var bEmpty = raw === undefined || raw === null || raw === "";
+      var b;
+      if (typeof raw === "boolean") {
+        b = raw;
+      } else if (bEmpty) {
+        b = false;
+      } else if (raw === 1) {
+        b = true;
+      } else if (raw === 0) {
+        b = false;
+      } else if (typeof raw === "string") {
+        var bNorm = raw.trim().toLowerCase();
+        if (bNorm === "true" || bNorm === "on" || bNorm === "1" || bNorm === "yes") {
+          b = true;
+        } else if (bNorm === "false" || bNorm === "off" || bNorm === "0" || bNorm === "no") {
+          b = false;
+        } else {
+          return desc.typeMessage || "Must be true or false";
+        }
+      } else {
+        return desc.typeMessage || "Must be true or false";
+      }
       return (!desc.optional && !b) ? (desc.requiredMessage || "Required") : null;
     }
     var pre = desc.trim && typeof raw === "string" ? raw.trim() : raw;

packages/validation/test/validation.test.ts

@@ -114,6 +114,140 @@ test("checkField coerces and applies rules", () => {
   ).toBe("Email is required");
 });
 
+test("checkField coerces recognised true/false boolean strings, case-insensitively and trimmed", () => {
+  const desc = { type: "boolean" as const, optional: true, rules: [] };
+  for (const raw of [
+    "true",
+    "TRUE",
+    " True ",
+    "on",
+    "ON",
+    " on ",
+    "1",
+    " 1 ",
+    "yes",
+    "YES",
+    " Yes ",
+  ]) {
+    expect(checkField(desc, raw)).toEqual({ value: true, error: null });
+  }
+  for (const raw of [
+    "false",
+    "FALSE",
+    " False ",
+    "off",
+    "OFF",
+    " off ",
+    "0",
+    " 0 ",
+    "no",
+    "NO",
+    " No ",
+  ]) {
+    expect(checkField(desc, raw)).toEqual({ value: false, error: null });
+  }
+});
+
+test("checkField coerces numeric 1/0 booleans (common in JSON payloads)", () => {
+  const desc = { type: "boolean" as const, optional: true, rules: [] };
+  expect(checkField(desc, 1)).toEqual({ value: true, error: null });
+  expect(checkField(desc, 0)).toEqual({ value: false, error: null });
+  expect(checkField(desc, true)).toEqual({ value: true, error: null });
+  expect(checkField(desc, false)).toEqual({ value: false, error: null });
+});
+
+test("checkField rejects unrecognised boolean strings/values as a type error, not a silent false", () => {
+  const desc = { type: "boolean" as const, optional: true, rules: [] };
+  for (const raw of ["yes please", "maybe", "treu", "TRUE!", "2", { a: 1 }, [1, 2]]) {
+    const result = checkField(desc, raw);
+    expect(result.error).toBe("Must be true or false");
+  }
+  const custom = checkField(
+    { type: "boolean" as const, optional: true, typeMessage: "Pick yes or no", rules: [] },
+    "maybe",
+  );
+  expect(custom.error).toBe("Pick yes or no");
+});
+
+test("checkField treats absent/empty boolean input as false, erroring only when required", () => {
+  const optionalDesc = { type: "boolean" as const, optional: true, rules: [] };
+  expect(checkField(optionalDesc, undefined)).toEqual({ value: false, error: null });
+  expect(checkField(optionalDesc, null)).toEqual({ value: false, error: null });
+  expect(checkField(optionalDesc, "")).toEqual({ value: false, error: null });
+
+  const requiredDesc = {
+    type: "boolean" as const,
+    requiredMessage: "Required",
+    rules: [],
+  };
+  expect(checkField(requiredDesc, undefined).error).toBe("Required");
+  expect(checkField(requiredDesc, "").error).toBe("Required");
+});
+
+test("checkField still errors when a required boolean is explicitly false (checkbox semantics locked in)", () => {
+  expect(
+    checkField(
+      { type: "boolean" as const, requiredMessage: "Accept the terms to continue", rules: [] },
+      false,
+    ),
+  ).toEqual({ value: false, error: "Accept the terms to continue" });
+});
+
+test("client/server boolean parity: checkField and the browser runtime agree on every case", () => {
+  const win = new Window() as unknown as Window & Record<string, unknown>;
+  win.document.body.innerHTML = `
+    <form data-schema="parity">
+      <input name="field">
+      <span data-error="field"></span>
+    </form>`;
+  const schema = v.object({ field: v.boolean().optional() }).describe();
+  win.__wrnSchemas = { parity: schema };
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).window = win;
+  (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).document = win.document;
+
+  try {
+    (0, eval)(VALIDATE_RUNTIME);
+    const runtime = win.__wrnValidate as { init(root: Document): void };
+    runtime.init(win.document as unknown as Document);
+    const input = win.document.querySelector("input") as HappyDOMHTMLInputElement;
+    const error = win.document.querySelector("[data-error=field]") as HappyDOMHTMLElement;
+
+    const cases = [
+      "true",
+      "TRUE",
+      " True ",
+      "on",
+      "ON",
+      "1",
+      " 1 ",
+      "yes",
+      "YES",
+      "false",
+      "FALSE",
+      "off",
+      "OFF",
+      "0",
+      "no",
+      "NO",
+      "",
+      "yes please",
+      "maybe",
+      "treu",
+    ];
+
+    for (const raw of cases) {
+      const serverResult = checkField(schema.fields.field, raw);
+      input.value = raw;
+      input.dispatchEvent(windowEvent(win, "blur", { bubbles: true }));
+      const clientRejected = error.textContent !== "";
+      expect(clientRejected).toBe(serverResult.error !== null);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).window;
+    delete (globalThis as Record<string, unknown>).document;
+  }
+});
+
 test("invalid() returns a 400 with errors", async () => {
   const res = invalid({ email: "bad" });
   expect(res.status).toBe(400);