feat(ui): classify code from the engine's own tree-sitter parse, retiring Shiki (CG-57)

The viewer ran a second highlighter over source the engine had already parsed
with a real grammar: Shiki, plus 56 pruned TextMate grammars shipped in
dist/textmate/. The classification now comes off that tree instead, so a file is
read by exactly the grammar that decided what its symbols are.

The swap is complete rather than flagged: @shikijs/core, @shikijs/engine-javascript
and @shikijs/langs are off the dependency list, scripts/prune-grammars.mjs and
`npm run build:textmate` are deleted, and check-ui-build.mjs asserts the
tree-sitter grammars in dist/extraction/wasm instead of dist/textmate.

The wire contract is unchanged — `[classId, text]` pairs with the class names
alongside — so the viewer's decoder and code blocks did not have to be rewritten.
Two classes are added to the six: `type` (a named type reference, painted at
plain ink) and `def` (the name a definition declares, weight 600), the latter
taken from the extractors' own definition tables so it cannot drift from what
indexing calls a definition.

Three differences are not cosmetic:

* Interpolations (`${…}`, `#{…}`, `$"{…}"`, f-strings) are classified as code,
  not as string. The call-site overlay refuses to claim a token classed string,
  so calls written inside interpolated strings now link.
* Built-in type words are emitted whole and classed `type` in every language.
  The grammars disagree about whether `string` is a type_identifier or an
  anonymous token inside a predefined_type, and TextMate scoped them
  inconsistently too.
* 3 000 lines of TypeScript cost 24-41 ms instead of ~700 ms.

Given up deliberately: Liquid, Razor, YAML, Twig, XML and .properties render
plain. .svelte/.vue/.astro are classified through their <script> blocks, the same
delegation the SFC extractors do. Pulling html/css/vue out of tree-sitter-wasms
would cover them, but those ABI-13 builds are the known cause of shared-WASM-heap
corruption for every other language in the same process.

Measured parity, per-language before/after screenshots and the reproduction
recipe: docs/design/cg57-highlighting-parity.md.
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Colby McHenry
2026-08-27 06:22:11 -05:00
parent 8ac0138940
commit ad91c8fdd8
32 changed files with 1084 additions and 1293 deletions
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@@ -13,16 +13,17 @@
* where tsc puts the TERMINAL ui, so a mis-pointed outDir silently deletes
* modules the CLI requires at startup.
*
* The pruned TextMate grammars in dist/textmate/ are checked the same way and
* for the same reason: without them every file the viewer shows falls back to
* unhighlighted text, which looks like a styling bug rather than a missing
* build step.
* The tree-sitter grammars in dist/extraction/wasm/ are checked the same way
* and for the same reason. They are copied by `npm run copy-assets`, they are
* what both indexing and the viewer's syntax classification parse with, and
* their absence is survivable at runtime — source is served unhighlighted —
* which is exactly why it has to fail here: nothing downstream would complain.
*
* Usage: node scripts/check-ui-build.mjs [--root <dir>]
* --root directory holding dist/ (default: the repo root). The release
* bundler points this at its staging dir to verify the copy.
*/
import { existsSync, readFileSync, statSync } from 'node:fs';
import { existsSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, statSync } from 'node:fs';
import { dirname, join, resolve, sep } from 'node:path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
@@ -95,36 +96,62 @@ for (const compiled of [join('bin', 'codegraph.js'), 'index.js', join('ui', 'shi
}
}
// The pruned syntax grammars (scripts/prune-grammars.mjs). Their absence is
// survivable at runtime — source is served unhighlighted — which is exactly why
// it has to fail here: nothing downstream would ever complain.
const textmateDir = join(root, 'dist', 'textmate');
const manifestPath = join(textmateDir, 'manifest.json');
if (!existsSync(manifestPath)) {
// The vendored tree-sitter grammars (`npm run copy-assets`). The viewer reads
// every file with the same grammar the engine indexed it with, so a missing
// wasm is both an extraction gap and a silently unhighlighted screen.
const wasmDir = join(root, 'dist', 'extraction', 'wasm');
/**
* The grammars the syntax classification is gated on — the eight languages
* CG-57 measured parity against, plus the two the TS family needs. Every one is
* vendored (see VENDORED_WASM_LANGS), so all of them must be in this directory
* rather than resolved out of node_modules.
*/
const GATE_GRAMMARS = [
'tree-sitter-typescript.wasm',
'tree-sitter-tsx.wasm',
'tree-sitter-javascript.wasm',
'tree-sitter-go.wasm',
'tree-sitter-python.wasm',
'tree-sitter-rust.wasm',
'tree-sitter-swift.wasm',
'tree-sitter-c_sharp.wasm',
'tree-sitter-ruby.wasm',
'tree-sitter-php.wasm',
];
if (!existsSync(wasmDir)) {
fail(
`missing ${manifestPath}`,
`missing ${wasmDir}`,
staged
? 'this bundle was assembled before the syntax grammars were added, or dist/textmate was not copied'
: 'run `npm run build:textmate` (it needs @shikijs/langs from devDependencies)'
? 'dist/extraction/wasm was not copied into the bundle — re-run scripts/build-bundle.sh'
: 'run `npm run copy-assets` (it copies src/extraction/wasm/*.wasm into dist/)'
);
}
const manifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync(manifestPath, 'utf8'));
const languages = Object.keys(manifest.languages ?? {});
if (languages.length === 0) fail('dist/textmate/manifest.json lists no languages');
// Against the source tree, the source directory IS the list — nothing to drift.
// Inside a staged bundle there is no src/, so the gate list carries it.
const expectedGrammars = new Set(GATE_GRAMMARS);
const srcWasmDir = join(root, 'src', 'extraction', 'wasm');
if (!staged && existsSync(srcWasmDir)) {
for (const name of readdirSync(srcWasmDir)) {
if (name.endsWith('.wasm')) expectedGrammars.add(name);
}
}
const grammarFiles = new Set(Object.values(manifest.languages).flat());
const missingGrammars = [...grammarFiles].filter(
(name) => !existsSync(join(textmateDir, `${name}.json`))
const missingGrammars = [...expectedGrammars].filter(
(name) => !existsSync(join(wasmDir, name))
);
if (missingGrammars.length > 0) {
fail(
`dist/textmate is missing ${missingGrammars.length} grammar file(s): ${missingGrammars.join(', ')}`,
'the prune step was interrupted or dist/textmate was copied incompletely'
`dist/extraction/wasm is missing ${missingGrammars.length} grammar(s): ${missingGrammars.join(', ')}`,
'the copy-assets step was interrupted or dist/extraction/wasm was copied incompletely'
);
}
const grammarCount = readdirSync(wasmDir).filter((n) => n.endsWith('.wasm')).length;
console.log(
`[check-ui-build] dist/viewer ok (index.html + ${assets} referenced asset(s)); ` +
`dist/textmate ok (${languages.length} languages, ${grammarFiles.size} grammars); dist/ engine intact`
`dist/extraction/wasm ok (${grammarCount} grammars); dist/ engine intact`
);