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title: MARKLESS_FRAMEWORK_API_ALIAS_UNSUPPORTED
description: "A Markless function was copied into a variable or passed around as a value."
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**Error** from the compiler, while it builds your `.tsrx` files.

## What happened

The compiler only rewrites calls that use the imported name. A copy like `const make = state` gives it nothing to rewrite.

Markless prints the message, the reason, and a suggestion:

```text
MARKLESS_FRAMEWORK_API_ALIAS_UNSUPPORTED: `<declarationKind> <localName> = <apiName>` copies the framework API `<apiName>` into a plain variable. `<localName>(5)` would not create graph state — the compiler only rewrites calls made through the imported name.
<apiName>() is compiled away into graph cells; it has no runtime function value that an alias could call.
Call the imported API directly — before: `const makeState = state; let x = makeState(5);` — after: `let x = state(5);`. For a reusable initialization pattern, wrap the VALUE, not the API (`const defaults = () => ({ open: false }); const menu = state(defaults());`).
https://markless.dev/errors/MARKLESS_FRAMEWORK_API_ALIAS_UNSUPPORTED
```

Words in angle brackets change from case to case.

## How to fix it

Call the imported function by its own name. If you want a reusable start value, wrap the value, not the function.

```tsrx
const defaults = () => ({ open: false });
const menu = state(defaults());
```

## Where it comes from

`@markless/compiler` raises this code. Source:

- [packages/compiler/src/passes/semantic-graph/diagnostics.ts](https://github.com/compiled-run/markless/blob/main/packages/compiler/src/passes/semantic-graph/diagnostics.ts)

Read [how to read a Markless error](/tooling/diagnostics), or go back to [all error codes](/errors).