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# Migrating a choo v7 app to v8
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The API you know is intact: `choo()`, `app.use`, `app.route`,
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`app.mount`, `app.toString`, `emit`, stores, `state.events`. What changed
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is the plumbing: ESM everywhere, new package names, no compile step, and
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a platform baseline of Node ≥ 24 + Baseline Widely Available browsers.
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## The fast path
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```console
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$ npx @uhhm/buuh-migrate . # rewrite in place
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$ npx @uhhm/buuh-migrate --dry . # or report only
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```
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The codemod converts simple top-level CJS to ESM, remaps specifiers, and
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prints a note for everything it won't guess at. Then:
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1. Add `"type": "module"` to package.json.
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2. Swap dependencies for `@uhhm/buuh`, `@uhhm/buuh-html`, and friends.
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3. Run your app. Read the console: hydration now *tells you* when server
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and client markup disagree.
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## Specifier map
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| v7 | v8 |
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|---|---|
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| `choo` | `@uhhm/buuh` |
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| `choo/html`, `nanohtml` | `@uhhm/buuh-html` |
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| `nanohtml/raw` | `@uhhm/buuh-html/raw` |
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| `nanomorph` | `@uhhm/buuh-html/morph` |
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| `nanocomponent`, `choo/component` | `@uhhm/buuh-component` |
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| `choo-devtools` | `@uhhm/buuh-devtools` |
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| `choo-lazy-route` | `lazy()` from `@uhhm/buuh` |
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| `nanobus`, `nanorouter`, `nanohref`, `nanotiming` | built into `@uhhm/buuh` |
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| `nanoquery` | built in (`state.query`); use `URLSearchParams` elsewhere |
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| `nanoraf`, `nanoassert`, `nanolru` | retired — platform/built-in |
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## Behavior changes to know about
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- **URLs decode once, and never crash.** A literal `%` in a path routed
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v7 into a `URIError`; v8 keeps the raw segment. Params are no longer
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double-decoded (`%2540` → `%40`, not `@`). Routes and locations are
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NFC-normalized, so `café` matches however the é was composed.
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`state.href` is decoded for reading.
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- **Event handlers never serialize.** v7's server renderer emitted
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`onclick=""`; v8 emits nothing — handlers are behavior, not markup.
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- **Whitespace is preserved as authored** in browser renders (v7's
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browser transform collapsed it). Server and browser output are now
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byte-identical, which is what makes hydration adoption work.
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- **`mount()` hydrates.** First render adopts server DOM in place and
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warns on real mismatches; `<script>` tags and whitespace are ignored.
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- **`toString()` got stricter, `toStream()` got capable.** Sync renders
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behave exactly as v7. Async content — `state.prefetch` promises, lazy
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routes, promise-valued template holes — requires `toStream()`, and
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`toString()` says so instead of misrendering.
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- **Views can't return arrays** (unchanged from v7) and document-level
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roots (`html\`<body>…\``) work in the browser renderer too.
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## Things that moved to bankai
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sheetify → put a `style.css` next to your entry (client-only by
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construction). `split-require` → native `import()` + `lazy()`.
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`bankai start/build/serve/inspect` replace the v9 pipeline; HTTP/2 push
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never shipped and is dead in browsers — bankai v10 sends 103 Early Hints
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instead.
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