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title: MARKLESS_SHARED_INSTANCE_EXPORTED_FUNCTION
description: "The exported function \"<name>\" resolves a shared() definition at module scope: a Markless compiler error."
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**Error** from the compiler, while it builds your `.tsrx` files.

## What happened

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

```text
MARKLESS_SHARED_INSTANCE_EXPORTED_FUNCTION: "<name>" is exported from this file and calls `<definitionName>()` in its body. A shared() instance is resolved by a component as it renders, and this function is not a component, so there is no instance for the call to return. Compiling this file drops the `export` keyword from "<name>" and carries the rest into the emitted symbol modules, where `<definitionName>` is not carried at all — the definition ships as payload graph nodes rather than as code. The copy that lands would throw the moment it runs, and the export a consumer imported is gone.
A shared() definition is graph data, not module code: its factory is compiled into payload nodes and the runtime resolves a property of it only for a component instance that asked for one. That makes a component body the only place a resolving call means anything. An exported plain function is neither carried with its definition nor reachable as a part, so the compiler would have to silently publish less than the file says it publishes.
Make "<name>" a part this family publishes — a component whose body resolves `<definitionName>()` — and compose it where the behavior is wanted.
https://markless.dev/errors/MARKLESS_SHARED_INSTANCE_EXPORTED_FUNCTION
```

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## How to fix it

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## Where it comes from

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

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

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