colbymchenry · Oct 21, 2026 · Oct 21, 2026
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ and adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 - In React, a component declared through a wrapper with no render function of its own, like styled-components' `styled(ActionButton)` (with `.attrs(…)`, `.withConfig(…)` or type arguments too), emotion's and MUI's `styled(Box)(…)`, `memo(Button)` or `forwardRef(Render)`, now links to the component it wraps, so a render flow in `codegraph_explore`, a component's callers and its impact go on through the wrapper instead of stopping at it. The calls and values in a wrapper's styles, like `${(props) => theme.color(props)}` or a shared `css` block, now belong to the wrapper, as they do to any other constant, so a theme helper used only in styles has callers. A component that wraps its render function in `forwardRef(…)` or `memo(…)` now shows in the impact of the top-level constants it reads, as a function component does. A wrapper around a component that comes from a package, like react-router's `Link` or antd's `Typography.Text`, links to nothing, and the file that declares a wrapper no longer shows as referencing the component it wraps. Re-index React projects after upgrading.
 - In TypeScript, a type written with a qualifier, like `React.ReactNode`, `Y.Doc`, `TChat.ChatMessage` or `EQueryType.CLICKHOUSE`, now links to the member of what the qualifier names: a type from a package, like React's, no longer links to a class or component of your own that shares its name, and a member of an enum or a namespace your project declares links to that member instead of to another enum's or a same-named component. Re-index TypeScript projects after upgrading.
 - In JavaScript and TypeScript, an import written from the app's root with a leading slash, like bigbluebutton's `import Icon from '/imports/ui/components/common/icon/component'`, now links to the file it names when the app's `tsconfig.json` or `jsconfig.json` maps it, as `"paths": { "/*": ["*"] }` does. Before, such an import was taken for a package, so the module looked unused and every name it imports linked by name instead, often to the wrong one of several components of the same name, or to nothing. Re-index projects that import this way after upgrading.
+- In JavaScript and TypeScript, a call whose callee is not a name, like an immediately invoked function `(() => { … })()`, a curried call such as `connect(mapState)(View)`, `handlers[type]()` or `(0, fn)()`, no longer stores the callee's whole source text as the name of a reference that nothing in the project can answer. A single immediately invoked function could leave its entire body in the index that way. The calls inside such a callee, and the inner call of a curried one, are still recorded. A call through parentheses, a cast or a non-null assertion, like `(fn)()`, `(fn as F)()` or `fn!()`, now links to `fn` exactly as `fn()` does, so a parameter named `fn` no longer links to a same-named property elsewhere in the project. In TypeScript, a call with type arguments behind an operator, like `!settings.get<boolean>('X')` or `void apiRequest<Status>()`, now links to what it calls, as `await load<T>()` already did.
 
 ## [1.6.2] - 2026-10-03
 

diff --git a/__tests__/call-receiver-no-fabrication.test.ts b/__tests__/call-receiver-no-fabrication.test.ts
@@ -72,10 +72,87 @@ describe('call-expression receivers (#1683)', () => {
   it('encodes the receiver as `<inner>().<method>` and drops a receiver with no static callee', () => {
     const r = extractFromSource('src/x.js', 'function f(d) { d.setdefault("k", []).append(1); make().run(); (0, make)().run(); arr[0]().go(); }');
     const names = r.unresolvedReferences.filter((u) => u.referenceKind === 'calls').map((u) => u.referenceName).sort();
-    // `(0, make)` and `arr[0]` are the inner calls' own refs, unchanged; their chains are dropped.
-    expect(names).toEqual(['(0, make)', 'arr[0]', 'd.setdefault', 'd.setdefault().append', 'make', 'make().run']);
+    // `(0, make)()` and `arr[0]()` call a value with no name; their chains are dropped too.
+    expect(names).toEqual(['d.setdefault', 'd.setdefault().append', 'make', 'make().run']);
     const py = extractFromSource('x.py', 'def f(d):\n    d.setdefault("k", []).append(1)\n    d.items().get(2)\n');
     expect(py.unresolvedReferences.filter((u) => u.referenceKind === 'calls').map((u) => u.referenceName).sort())
       .toEqual(['d.items', 'd.items().get', 'd.setdefault', 'd.setdefault().append']);
   });
+
+  // A callee that names nothing used to give the reference its whole source
+  // text: an IIFE's body, `connect(mapState)`, `handlers[type]`. No symbol has
+  // such a name, so nothing resolved and each one parked as a failed reference.
+  it('records no name for a callee that names nothing, and looks through wrappers that keep one', () => {
+    const js = extractFromSource('src/x.js', [
+      'class A extends B { constructor() { super(1); } }',
+      'function f(handlers, type, fn, ns) {',
+      '  (() => { inner(); })();',
+      '  (function () { inner2(); })();',
+      '  connect(mapState)(View);',
+      '  create()(setup);',
+      "  breakpoint('tablet')`padding: 0;`;",
+      '  handlers[type](1);',
+      '  (0, fn)();',
+      '  (fn)();',
+      '  (ns.fn)();',
+      '}',
+    ].join('\n'));
+    expect(js.unresolvedReferences.filter((u) => u.referenceKind === 'calls').map((u) => u.referenceName).sort())
+      .toEqual(['breakpoint', 'connect', 'create', 'fn', 'inner', 'inner2', 'ns.fn', 'super']);
+    // A tag with an object type argument error-recovers into a call on `css<{…}>`.
+    const ts = extractFromSource('src/x.ts', 'function g(fn: () => void) { fn!(); (fn as F)(); css<{ open: boolean }>`color: red;`; }');
+    expect(ts.unresolvedReferences.filter((u) => u.referenceKind === 'calls').map((u) => u.referenceName).sort())
+      .toEqual(['css', 'fn', 'fn']);
+  });
+
+  // tree-sitter-typescript parses a prefix operator over a generic call as the
+  // call's callee, as it does `await f<T>()` (#2586): `!settings.get<boolean>(…)`
+  // was a call named `!settings.get`.
+  it('looks through a prefix operator over a generic call', () => {
+    const ts = extractFromSource('src/x.ts', [
+      'function h() {',
+      "  if (!settings.get<boolean>('X')) return;",
+      '  void apiRequest<Status>(1);',
+      '  return typeof load<T>() === "x" || -count<number>() > 0 || !!useFlag<boolean>();',
+      '}',
+    ].join('\n'));
+    const calls = ts.unresolvedReferences.filter((u) => u.referenceKind === 'calls');
+    expect(calls.map((u) => u.referenceName).sort()).toEqual(['apiRequest', 'count', 'load', 'settings.get', 'useFlag']);
+    // Each sits where its callee's name starts, past the operator.
+    expect(calls.find((u) => u.referenceName === 'settings.get')).toMatchObject({ line: 2, column: 7 });
+    expect(calls.find((u) => u.referenceName === 'apiRequest')).toMatchObject({ line: 3, column: 7 });
+  });
+
+  // The reference sits where the name does, and is a bare call as a plain
+  // call's is: SigNoz's `(callback as FrameRequestCallback)(0)` names the
+  // arrow's own parameter, and `(callback)(0)` starting at the `(` bound a
+  // generated interface's `callback` property.
+  it('treats a wrapped callee as the plain call, so a parameter it names shadows a namesake', async () => {
+    const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'cg-cast-callee-'));
+    try {
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(root, 'schemas.ts'), 'export interface DTO {\n  callback?: string[] | null;\n}\n');
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(root, 'raf.test.ts'), [
+        "import type { DTO } from './schemas';",
+        "describe('raf', () => {",
+        '  beforeEach(() => {',
+        "    jest.spyOn(window, 'requestAnimationFrame').mockImplementation((callback) => {",
+        '      callback(0);',
+        '      (callback as FrameRequestCallback)(1);',
+        '      callback!(2);',
+        '      (callback)(3);',
+        '      return 0;',
+        '    });',
+        '  });',
+        '});',
+        'export const dto: DTO = {};',
+      ].join('\n'));
+      const graph = CodeGraph.initSync(root);
+      await graph.indexAll();
+      const property = graph.getNodesByName('callback').find((n) => n.kind === 'property')!;
+      expect(graph.getCallers(property.id)).toEqual([]);
+      graph.destroy();
+    } finally {
+      fs.rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
 });
diff --git a/__tests__/fixtures/kernel-parity/torture.js b/__tests__/fixtures/kernel-parity/torture.js
@@ -112,3 +112,14 @@ const Row = styled.div.attrs((props) => ({ role: roleOf(props) }))`
   ${Panel} { margin: 0; }
 `;
 const MemoPanel = React.memo(Panel, legacyHelper);
+// --- callees that name nothing, and wrappers that keep one -----------------------
+function calleeShapes(handlers, type, fn, ns) {
+  (() => { legacyHelper(1, 2); })();
+  (function () { arrow(3); })();
+  connect(mapState)(Widget);
+  breakpoint('tablet')`padding: 0;`;
+  handlers[type](1);
+  (0, fn)();
+  (fn)();
+  (ns.fn)();
+}
diff --git a/__tests__/fixtures/kernel-parity/torture.tsx b/__tests__/fixtures/kernel-parity/torture.tsx
@@ -153,6 +153,21 @@ export const MemoCompared = memo(ImportedComponent, helperFn);
 export const MemoForward = memo(forwardRef(RenderInput));
 export const RefForwarded = React.forwardRef(RenderInput);
 
+// Callees that name nothing, and the wrappers that keep one.
+export async function calleeShapes(handlers: Record<string, () => void>, fn: () => void, load: () => Promise<() => void>) {
+  (() => { helperFn(); })();
+  create<ButtonProps>()(helperFn);
+  handlers['open']();
+  (0, fn)();
+  fn!();
+  (fn as () => void)();
+  (await load())();
+  await helperFn<ButtonProps>();
+  void helperFn<ButtonProps>();
+  if (!NS.helper.deep<boolean>(1)) return;
+  return typeof create<ButtonProps>() === 'function' && !!create<RowProps>();
+}
+
 export function App() {
   const nodes: GraphNode[] = [];
   return (

diff --git a/codegraph-kernel/src/textutil.rs b/codegraph-kernel/src/textutil.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ re!(styled_callee, r"^styled\b");
 re!(pascal_case, r"^[A-Z]");
 // extractCall parenthesized-conversion normalization
 re!(paren_conversion, r"^\(\s*\*?\s*([A-Za-z_][\w.]*)\s*\)$");
+// tsJsCalleeName's dotted chain (`a.b.c`); ASCII classes, as JS's `\w` is
+re!(dotted_chain, r"^[A-Za-z_$][0-9A-Za-z_$]*(?:\.[A-Za-z_$][0-9A-Za-z_$]*)+$");
 // flushFnRefCandidates SIMPLE_NAME
 re!(simple_name, r"^[A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]*$");
 // flushFnRefCandidates QUALIFIED_IMPORT

diff --git a/codegraph-kernel/src/tsjs/extractors.rs b/codegraph-kernel/src/tsjs/extractors.rs
@@ -1529,7 +1529,7 @@ impl<'t> Walker<'t> {
         // Where the reference sits: the call, or the callee an `await` was
         // peeled off (`await f<T>(x)` starts at `await`; the call to `f`
         // starts where `f` does, as in `await f(x)`). Mirrors refStart.
-        let at = match (raw, func) {
+        let mut at = match (raw, func) {
             (Some(r), Some(f)) if r.id() != f.id() => f,
             _ => node,
         };
@@ -1596,7 +1596,15 @@ impl<'t> Walker<'t> {
                     }
                 }
             } else {
-                callee_name = self.text(func).to_string();
+                // A callee that names nothing (a call, a function, a
+                // subscript) is no reference. Mirrors tsJsCalleeName.
+                match self.callee_name_of(func) {
+                    Some((name, name_at)) => {
+                        callee_name = name;
+                        at = name_at;
+                    }
+                    None => return,
+                }
             }
         }
 
@@ -1612,6 +1620,27 @@ impl<'t> Walker<'t> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// The name a non-member callee writes, past `(fn)`, `fn!`, `(fn as F)`,
+    /// `await` and a tag's type arguments (`css<Props>`), or None for one that
+    /// names nothing: a call, a function, a subscript, `(0, fn)`. A dotted
+    /// chain keeps its text, `(a.b)()` → `a.b`. The node is where the name
+    /// starts, which is where the reference sits. Mirrors tsJsCalleeName.
+    fn callee_name_of(&self, func: Node<'t>) -> Option<(String, Node<'t>)> {
+        let mut cur = peel_receiver(func);
+        while cur.kind() == "instantiation_expression" {
+            let inner = cur.child_by_field_name("function").or_else(|| cur.named_child(0))?;
+            cur = peel_receiver(inner);
+        }
+        match cur.kind() {
+            "identifier" | "super" | "import" => Some((self.text(cur).to_string(), cur)),
+            "member_expression" => {
+                let chain: String = self.text(cur).chars().filter(|c| !c.is_whitespace()).collect();
+                util::dotted_chain().is_match(&chain).then_some((chain, cur))
+            }
+            _ => None,
+        }
+    }
+
     // --- extractInstantiation -----------------------------------------------------------
 
     /// `this.<field>` as a member_expression receiver → Some(field) (#1496, #1987).
@@ -1630,17 +1659,27 @@ impl<'t> Walker<'t> {
         Some(self.text(property).to_string())
     }
 
-    /// `await f<T>(x)` parses with `await f` as the callee; the call is to
-    /// `f` (#2586). Peels every `await`, skipping a comment written after one.
-    /// TS-family only. Mirrors peelTsAwaitCallee.
+    /// `await f<T>(x)` parses with `await f` as the callee (#2586), and a
+    /// prefix operator over a generic call the same way
+    /// (`!settings.get<boolean>('X')`, `void apiRequest<T>()`); the call is to
+    /// `f`. Peels every `await` and prefix operator, skipping a comment written
+    /// after an `await`. TS-family only. Mirrors peelTsPrefixedCallee.
     fn peel_await_callee(&self, node: Node<'t>) -> Node<'t> {
         if !self.variant.is_ts() {
             return node;
         }
         let mut cur = node;
-        while cur.kind() == "await_expression" {
-            let mut walker = cur.walk();
-            let Some(inner) = cur.named_children(&mut walker).find(|c| c.kind() != "comment") else { break };
+        loop {
+            let inner = match cur.kind() {
+                "unary_expression" => cur.child_by_field_name("argument"),
+                "await_expression" => {
+                    let mut walker = cur.walk();
+                    let found = cur.named_children(&mut walker).find(|c| c.kind() != "comment");
+                    found
+                }
+                _ => break,
+            };
+            let Some(inner) = inner else { break };
             cur = inner;
         }
         cur

diff --git a/src/extraction/tree-sitter.ts b/src/extraction/tree-sitter.ts
@@ -559,13 +559,17 @@ const TS_JS_TRANSPARENT_RECEIVER_TYPES = new Set([
 
 /**
  * tree-sitter-typescript parses `await f<T>(x)` as a call whose callee is
- * `await f` (#2586); the call is to `f`. Peels every `await`, skipping a
- * comment written after one. Mirrored in the kernel (tsjs/extractors.rs).
+ * `await f` (#2586), and a prefix operator over a generic call the same way:
+ * `!settings.get<boolean>('X')`, `void apiRequest<T>()`, `typeof load<T>()`.
+ * The call is to `f`. Peels every `await` and prefix operator, skipping a
+ * comment written after an `await`. Mirrored in the kernel (tsjs/extractors.rs).
  */
-function peelTsAwaitCallee(node: SyntaxNode): SyntaxNode {
+function peelTsPrefixedCallee(node: SyntaxNode): SyntaxNode {
   let cur = node;
-  while (cur.type === 'await_expression') {
-    const inner = cur.namedChildren.find((c: SyntaxNode) => c.type !== 'comment');
+  while (cur.type === 'await_expression' || cur.type === 'unary_expression') {
+    const inner = cur.type === 'unary_expression'
+      ? getChildByField(cur, 'argument')
+      : cur.namedChildren.find((c: SyntaxNode) => c.type !== 'comment');
     if (!inner) break;
     cur = inner;
   }
@@ -593,6 +597,32 @@ function peelTsJsReceiver(node: SyntaxNode): SyntaxNode {
   return cur;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The name a TS/JS call's callee writes when it is no member access, past the
+ * wrappers that keep it the same callee — `(fn)()`, `fn!()`, `(fn as F)()`,
+ * `await f<T>()`, the type arguments of a tagged template's tag
+ * (`css<Props>\`…\``) — or null when it names nothing: a call (`connect(map)
+ * (View)`, `create<T>()(…)`, `breakpoint('tablet')\`…\``), a function (an
+ * IIFE), a subscript (`handlers[type]()`), `(0, fn)()`. Its text used to be
+ * the reference's name, an IIFE's whole body among them, which no symbol is.
+ * A dotted chain in parentheses keeps its text, `(a.b)()` → `a.b`, as the
+ * parenthesized-callee normalization in extractCall reads it. `at` is where the
+ * name starts, which is where the reference sits, as a plain `fn()` call's does:
+ * scope checks read the name there (a parameter `fn` shadows a namesake).
+ */
+function tsJsCalleeName(func: SyntaxNode, source: string): { name: string; at: SyntaxNode } | null {
+  let cur = peelTsJsReceiver(func);
+  while (cur.type === 'instantiation_expression') {
+    const inner = getChildByField(cur, 'function') ?? cur.namedChild(0);
+    if (!inner) return null;
+    cur = peelTsJsReceiver(inner);
+  }
+  if (cur.type === 'identifier' || cur.type === 'super' || cur.type === 'import') return { name: getNodeText(cur, source), at: cur };
+  if (cur.type !== 'member_expression') return null;
+  const chain = getNodeText(cur, source).replace(/\s+/g, '');
+  return /^[A-Za-z_$][\w$]*(?:\.[A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)+$/.test(chain) ? { name: chain, at: cur } : null;
+}
+
 /**
  * Whether a TS/JS receiver still collapses to the bare method name: `this` /
  * `super` (the resolver reads the owner off the enclosing class), a member
@@ -5603,7 +5633,7 @@ export class TreeSitterExtractor {
     } else {
       let func = getChildByField(node, 'function') || node.namedChild(0);
       if (func && (this.language === 'typescript' || this.language === 'tsx' || this.language === 'arkts')) {
-        const peeled = peelTsAwaitCallee(func);
+        const peeled = peelTsPrefixedCallee(func);
         if (peeled !== func) refStart = peeled.startPosition;
         func = peeled;
       }
@@ -5909,7 +5939,7 @@ export class TreeSitterExtractor {
               // wrong edge. The inner call is visited on its own either way.
               // Mirrored in the kernel (tsjs/extractors.rs, python.rs).
               let innerFn = getChildByField(receiver, 'function');
-              if (innerFn && (this.language === 'typescript' || this.language === 'tsx')) innerFn = peelTsAwaitCallee(innerFn);
+              if (innerFn && (this.language === 'typescript' || this.language === 'tsx')) innerFn = peelTsPrefixedCallee(innerFn);
               const innerCallee = innerFn ? getNodeText(innerFn, this.source).replace(/\s+/g, '') : '';
               if (!/^[A-Za-z_$][\w$]*(?:\.[A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)*$/.test(innerCallee)) return;
               calleeName = `${innerCallee}().${methodName}`;
@@ -5992,6 +6022,15 @@ export class TreeSitterExtractor {
           } else {
             calleeName = getNodeText(func, this.source);
           }
+        } else if (TS_JS_CHAIN_LANGUAGES.has(this.language)) {
+          // A callee that names nothing — a call, a function, a subscript —
+          // is no reference: a silent miss, never a name no symbol has. A
+          // curried call's inner call is visited on its own. Mirrored in the
+          // kernel's extract_call (tsjs/extractors.rs callee_name_of).
+          const named = tsJsCalleeName(func, this.source);
+          if (named === null) return;
+          calleeName = named.name;
+          refStart = named.at.startPosition;
         } else {
           calleeName = getNodeText(func, this.source);
         }