fix: embedded Vite servers watch the entire host project - #1853
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Both the dev UI server and the SSR renderer called createServer()
without a root, so Vite defaulted to process.cwd(). In an embedded
setup that is the host project, and the dev watcher then recursively
watched the entire host tree. An embedded server cannot inherit the
host's server.watch.ignored, so there was no user-side fix.
Neither server needs the host root: the dev UI is served via
middleware and /@fs/ URLs, and the renderer's watcher only exists so
unplugin sees component add/unlink events and rewrites its .d.ts.
Root the dev UI at devUIDir (with appType: 'custom' so Vite does not
serve index.html past the config-injecting middleware) and the
renderer at the Maizzle root, then add the paths each actually needs
to the watcher explicitly.
Measured on a Laravel host project, Vite 8.2.2, framework 6.1.2:
before after
fs.watch calls 123,244 4,320
of those in vendor/, build
output, node_modules/, .git/ 117,771 0
Maizzle startup ~11.9s ~1s
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In `@src/serve.ts`:
- Around line 241-250: Update globFreePrefix and the templateWatchRoots
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"**/*.vue", resolve to process.cwd() instead of being filtered out. Preserve
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246-255: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRefresh watcher roots after configuration reload.
templateWatchRoots,watchPaths, andisWatchedFileare initialized once inconfigureServer. The change handler replacesconfigat Line [289], but it does not refresh those values. If a configuration edit movescontent,components.source,root, orserver.watchoutside the original watched trees, later file changes do not trigger updates until the server restarts. Refresh the watcher roots and matcher afterresolveConfig.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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246-251: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winHandle rootless
config.server.watchpatterns.When
config.server.watchcontains**/*.jsonor*.json, the watcher receives the raw pattern and treats it literally.globFreePrefixreturns an empty string, which.filter(Boolean)removes. Withrootset todevUIDir, matching project files are not watched, althoughcreateWatchedFileMatcheraccepts these patterns. Resolve such patterns to a deliberateprocess.cwd()watch root or reject them during validation, and add a regression test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/serve.ts`:
- Around line 246-255: Update the configureServer configuration-reload handler
after resolveConfig to recompute templateWatchRoots, watchPaths, and
isWatchedFile from the new config, including content, components.source, root,
and server.watch values. Ensure the watcher adds the refreshed roots and
subsequent file-change matching uses the refreshed matcher.
- Around line 246-251: Update the templateWatchRoots construction and its
watch-path handling so rootless patterns such as **/*.json and *.json are
resolved to an explicit process.cwd() root, or rejected during configuration
validation, instead of being dropped when globFreePrefix returns an empty
string; preserve createWatchedFileMatcher compatibility and add a regression
test covering these patterns with a configured root.
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The root-narrowing fix replaced the implicit project-wide watch with an explicit set of watch roots. Two code paths still assumed watching was implicit and project-wide; this change brings them in line with the explicit model: - Configuration reloads: the change handler re-resolves the config, but the watch roots and the watched-file matcher were derived once at server startup. Under the explicit model they are part of the configuration's effect, so they are now re-derived after every reload — content, components.source, root, and server.watch edits take effect without a server restart. Watch-root derivation moves into deriveWatchRoots() in utils/watchPaths.ts so it can be re-applied and unit-tested. - server.watch patterns without a static prefix (bare or **-prefixed globs): these ask for project-wide matching, which the implicit watch used to provide as a side effect. The explicit model now honors them deliberately by assigning process.cwd() as their watch root. Unlike content patterns, server.watch is not resolved by resolveConfig, so this is the one place a prefixless pattern can occur. Negated patterns are excludes and derive no watch root, matching the content-pattern handling. Adds regression tests for the derivation: static prefixes, ./-prefixed and plain-file paths, the cwd fallback, negation, and deduplication. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013fGzC63EjFSW5KScrfJcZf
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In `@src/serve.ts`:
- Around line 236-250: Update applyWatchPaths and createWatchedFileMatcher so
negated server.watch patterns are separated from include patterns and matching
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| const applyWatchPaths = (cfg: typeof config) => { | ||
| const watchPaths = [...defaultWatchPaths, ...(cfg.server?.watch ?? [])] | ||
| const watchRoots = deriveWatchRoots({ | ||
| content: cfg.content ?? ['emails/**/*.vue'], | ||
| componentDirs: normalizeComponentSources(cfg.components?.source, process.cwd()).map(s => s.path), | ||
| root: cfg.root, | ||
| watchPaths, | ||
| cwd: process.cwd(), | ||
| }) | ||
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| for (const watchPath of watchPaths) { | ||
| server.watcher.add(watchPath) | ||
| for (const path of [...watchPaths, ...watchRoots]) { | ||
| server.watcher.add(path) | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Honor negated server.watch patterns in the matcher.
deriveWatchRoots excludes negated patterns from watcher roots, but createWatchedFileMatcher checks raw patterns with some(). With ['locales/**', '!locales/**/ignored.json'], locales/ignored.json still matches and reloads the config. Split include and exclude patterns, then reject files matched by an exclude pattern. Add a regression test for the excluded file.
Proposed fix
export function createWatchedFileMatcher(patterns: string[], cwd: string) {
- const normalized = patterns.map(p => p.replace(/^\.\//, ''))
+ const includePatterns = patterns
+ .filter(p => !p.startsWith('!'))
+ .map(p => p.replace(/^\.\//, ''))
+ const excludePatterns = patterns
+ .filter(p => p.startsWith('!'))
+ .map(p => p.slice(1).replace(/^\.\//, ''))
return (file: string) => {
const rel = relative(cwd, file)
- return normalized.some(p => matchesGlob(rel, p))
+ return includePatterns.some(p => matchesGlob(rel, p))
+ && !excludePatterns.some(p => matchesGlob(rel, p))
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In `@src/serve.ts` around lines 236 - 250, Update applyWatchPaths and
createWatchedFileMatcher so negated server.watch patterns are separated from
include patterns and matching files are rejected when they match any exclusion,
while preserving normal inclusion behavior. Add a regression test confirming a
file such as locales/ignored.json does not trigger reload when excluded by a
negated pattern.
Completes the negation semantics introduced for watch roots: negated patterns are excludes everywhere, so the watched-file matcher now splits includes from excludes and rejects files matched by an exclude. Passing negated patterns straight to matchesGlob was also a latent footgun: it treats a lone negated pattern as "everything except", which under some() made the predicate true for almost every file — a single negated server.watch entry would have turned every file change into a config reload with a full renderer restart. Along the same line, applyWatchPaths no longer passes raw watch patterns to watcher.add: with Vite's default disableGlobbing they are treated as literal paths, so raw globs (and negated patterns) only added junk entries. The derived watch roots already cover everything — plain file paths survive derivation as themselves. Adds regression tests for excluded files, ./-prefixed negations, and negation-only pattern lists. Notes on scope, from a review of all consumers: - createWatchedFileMatcher and deriveWatchRoots are consumed only by serve.ts; no other module is affected by the matcher change. - The renderer root change earlier in this series also applies to build, prepare, and the parallel build workers, which create renderers too — previously every build briefly watched the entire cwd for its duration; they now watch only the Maizzle root and component dirs. - mergeConfig gives maizzleConfig.root precedence over a user-supplied vite.root for the renderer, consistent with the documented "Maizzle's critical settings always win" policy. - Watch roots left behind by a config reload stay watched until restart (superfluous but harmless); the dev UI's Tailwind sources are declared in its own CSS via source(none) + @source and are root-independent. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013fGzC63EjFSW5KScrfJcZf
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48-50: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winStop
globFreePrefixat bracket character classes.For
locales/[a-z]/**,globFreePrefixreturnslocales/[a-z]. Vite passes this literal path toserver.watcher.add, so it does not coverlocales/en/. Addcontentandserver.watchregression cases and assert thatderiveWatchRootsreturns['locales'].🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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glob syntax by stopping the prefix split at “[” as well as the existing wildcard
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Completes deriveWatchRoots' prefix derivation for the full glob syntax of both backends in use: pathe's matchesGlob for the watched-file matcher (wildcards, ?, braces, and — previously missed — bracket character classes like [a-z]) and tinyglobby/picomatch for template listing (additionally extglobs). A glob character the split does not know leaves a literal never-existing path as the watch root and silently loses coverage; splitting too early merely watches the parent directory, which still covers the target. Extglob openers +( @( !( are matched as two-character sequences so bare parentheses in directory names stay literal. Adds regression tests: bracket classes in content and server.watch patterns, extglob openers, and a literal-parentheses directory name. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013fGzC63EjFSW5KScrfJcZf
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Problem
Both embedded Vite servers — the dev UI (
serve.ts) and the SSR renderer(
render/createRenderer.ts) — callcreateServer()without aroot, so Vitefalls back to
process.cwd(). In an embedded setup that is the host project,and the dev watcher recursively watches the entire host tree. On a Laravel
project with a Rust build directory that is 117,771 inotify watches in
vendor/and build output, on top of the host's own dev server; on Linux thisexhausts
fs.inotify.max_user_watchesand other watchers start failing withENOSPC.Analysis
The host's
server.watch.ignoreddoes not reach these servers. The onlyworkaround is the
vite.serverpassthrough, which is undocumented and easy tomiss.
Diagnosis is unusually hard: the watch calls come from Vite's bundled chokidar,
so stack traces are indistinguishable from the host server's own watcher, while
the host's
getWatched()looks clean throughout. The gap only shows up whencomparing
getWatched()against the kernel's inotify count.Neither server needs the host root. The dev UI is served through middleware and
/@fs/URLs; the renderer's watcher exists only so unplugin sees componentadd/unlink events and rewrites its
.d.ts.Solution
Root the dev UI at
devUIDir(withappType: 'custom', so Vite's HTMLmiddleware does not bypass the config-injecting one) and the renderer at the
Maizzle root. Both then add the paths they actually react to explicitly:
content dirs,
config.root, component sources, and the static prefixes of theexisting watch globs.
This is the smallest change that fixes the cause rather than the symptom.
config.rootis already available at both call sites and already used forfs.allow,.d.tsoutput and component resolution — the missingrootreadsas an oversight, not a design decision. The alternative, threading the host's
ignore patterns through, would leave the servers rooted at the host project and
require every integration to opt in.
Impact on other projects is limited by construction. The watch scope narrows;
nothing that was watched for a reason stops being watched, because the paths
Maizzle reacts to are added back explicitly.
contentpatterns arriveabsolutized by
resolveConfig, so a leading-glob pattern like**/*.vueresolves its watch root to the glob's parent — worst case the previous cwd-wide
watch, never a lost template watch. Standalone (non-embedded) use is unaffected
either way, since there
cwdand the Maizzle root usually coincide.Measurements
Laravel host project, Vite 8.2.2, framework 6.1.2. Every
fs.watchcallrecorded with its path during a real server start, cross-checked against
/proc/<pid>/fdinfo:fs.watchcallsvendor/, build output,node_modules/,.git/Verification
__MAIZZLE_CONFIG__and working/@fs/assets/__maizzle/templatesrespondsWorth reviewing
publicDirandenvDirderive fromroot, so<cwd>/publicis no longerstatically served by the dev UI server.
component sources and the default watch paths now need to list them in
config.server.watch— the documented mechanism for exactly that.Summary by CodeRabbit