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🔗 Linked issue

Resolves #882

📚 Description

With selective client islands enabled, Nuxt builds every auto-registered component. That made unused Nuxt Scripts widgets download third-party SDKs and fail builds without internet access. Downloads now run only for components imported by the app.

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The transformer receives the runtime components directory and defers script downloads for auto-registered components until Vite resolves the final module graph. Recursive importer traversal handles nested imports, cycles, and dynamic imports. Unused components retain source URLs. Final chunks remove integrity placeholders and related crossorigin attributes. Unit and end-to-end tests cover reachability, concurrent downloads, minification, and issue-882 fixtures.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1ed76

The current implementation can leave placeholder URLs in later or watch-build output when no pending component bundles remain, so merge should wait until replacements are applied consistently and the fallback behavior is properly exercised.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 30.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 23 functions across 8 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: unused components no longer trigger script downloads.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains issue #882 and the change that prevents downloads for unused widgets.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation addresses issue #882 by determining component reachability before downloading third-party scripts. It also adds regression coverage for unused components, importer cycles, dynamic i…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within scope. Source changes implement deferred, reachability-based bundling, and the added fixtures and tests validate the issue-specific behavior.
Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The implementation addresses issue #882 by determining component reachability before downloading third-party scripts. It also adds regression coverage for unused components, importer cycles, dynamic imports, concurrent downloads, and unresolved placeholders.

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📦 Package Size

⚠️ 2 size metrics grew

📚 22 runtime dependencies (no change)

Package output Gzipped Δ
@nuxt/scripts · export . 25 kB → 27 kB 🔴 +1.6 kB (+6.3%)
@nuxt/scripts · published payload 208 kB → 210 kB 🔴 +1.6 kB (+0.8%)
All tracked output (27)
Package output Gzipped Raw
@nuxt/scripts-cli · runtime dependencies 72 kB 355 kB
@nuxt/scripts-cli · dependency magicast 72 kB 355 kB
@nuxt/scripts-cli · export . 3.4 kB 12 kB
@nuxt/scripts-cli · published payload 3.4 kB 12 kB
@nuxt/scripts · runtime dependencies 451 kB 2.00 MB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency @nuxt/devtools-kit 2.9 kB 7.7 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency @oxc-project/types 0 B 0 B
@nuxt/scripts · dependency @vueuse/core 174 kB 707 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency @vueuse/shared 39 kB 154 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency h3 34 kB 146 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency magic-string 9.4 kB 42 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency oxc-walker 7.6 kB 31 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency semver 25 kB 72 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency sirv 8.8 kB 21 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency unstorage 70 kB 225 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dependency valibot 80 kB 592 kB
@nuxt/scripts · dist/runtime 98 kB 284 kB
@nuxt/scripts · export . 27 kB 112 kB 🔴
@nuxt/scripts · export ./registry 28 kB 89 kB
@nuxt/scripts · export ./stats 13 kB 89 kB
@nuxt/scripts · export ./types-source 43 kB 222 kB
@nuxt/scripts · published payload 210 kB 797 kB 🔴
@nuxt/scripts · components runtime 2.4 kB 6.2 kB
@nuxt/scripts · composables runtime 7.5 kB 24 kB
@nuxt/scripts · registry runtime 42 kB 123 kB
@nuxt/scripts · server runtime 28 kB 84 kB
@nuxt/scripts · utils runtime 2.5 kB 7.4 kB
Runtime dependencies (22)
Package Dependency Requested Resolved Cost
@nuxt/scripts-cli magicast ^0.5.4 0.5.4 📦 72 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts-cli pathe ^2.0.3 2.0.3 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts @nuxt/devtools-kit ^3.4.1 3.4.1 📦 2.9 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts @oxc-project/types ^0.143.0 0.143.0 📦 0 B gzip
@nuxt/scripts @vueuse/core ^14.4.0 14.4.0 📦 174 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts @vueuse/shared ^14.4.0 14.4.0 📦 39 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts consola ^3.4.2 3.4.2 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts defu ^6.1.7 6.1.7 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts h3 ^1.15.11 1.15.11 📦 34 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts magic-string ^1.1.0 1.1.0 📦 9.4 kB gzip, Nuxt has 1.0.0
@nuxt/scripts ofetch ^1.5.1 1.5.1 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts ohash ^2.0.11 2.0.11 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts oxc-walker ^1.1.1 1.1.1 📦 7.6 kB gzip, Nuxt has 1.0.0
@nuxt/scripts pathe ^2.0.3 2.0.3 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts semver ^7.8.5 7.8.5 📦 25 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts sirv ^3.0.2 3.0.2 📦 8.8 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts std-env ^4.2.0 4.2.0 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts ufo ^1.6.4 1.6.4 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts ultrahtml ^1.7.0 1.7.0 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts unplugin ^3.3.0 3.3.0 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.1
@nuxt/scripts unstorage ^1.17.5 1.17.5 📦 70 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts valibot ^1.4.2 1.4.2 📦 80 kB gzip

Baseline: main_@_9368f012___2026-08-24 · gzip is the comparison metric · changes below 16 B gzip are ignored

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/script/src/plugins/transform.ts`:
- Around line 347-355: Update the unused-component check around getModuleInfo in
the renderStart flow to recursively traverse both importers and
dynamicImporters, including cycles protection, and classify a component as
reachable only when an importer path reaches an application module; prevent
resolveScriptBundle and subsequent downloads for unreachable components. Add a
regression case covering unreferenced UnusedParent.vue importing Tracker.vue,
asserting Tracker.vue does not start a download during renderStart.
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In `@packages/script/src/plugins/transform.ts`:
- Around line 398-441: Update generateBundle so pendingComponentBundles
resolution is conditional rather than returning early, allowing every emitted
chunk to be patched whenever replacements is non-empty. Preserve the existing
resolution and cleanup behavior, then apply replacements across all bundle
chunks on subsequent emissions as well. Add a regression test covering two
bundle emissions where the second emission has no pending component bundles but
still receives replacement patches.

In `@test/unit/bundle-placeholder-minification.test.ts`:
- Line 39: Update deferAndMinify and the fallback test graph so getModuleInfo
returns importer arrays linking an application module outside COMPONENT_DIR to
COMPONENT_ID; make the download fail and assert that resolveScriptBundle uses
the REMOTE_SRC fallback. Replace the invalid { [COMPONENT_ID]: {} } graph entry
with a type-compatible module-info shape.
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Patching moved out of generateBundle. File names are already fixed there, so
an upstream script change shipped new chunk code under an old cache-busted
name, and the shifted offsets left the emitted sourcemap wrong. renderChunk
runs before the bundler hashes the chunk and can return a map, so both stay
honest. Resolution is awaited inside renderChunk too, which is what
generateBundle was working around.

Component registrations are now keyed by module id and survive every emission:

- Reachability is decided against the module graph of the build being emitted,
  so a watch rebuild that adds or drops an importer no longer reuses the first
  build's verdict.
- A failed build consumes nothing, so the retry resolves the same components
  instead of shipping unresolved placeholders.
- Re-transforming a module replaces its own registrations, retiring the token
  of a src that changed.

Replacements swap the whole quoted literal and serialize the value with
JSON.stringify. A registry or user src can hold a quote, a backslash or `${`,
and the minifier picks the quote style, so splicing raw text into an existing
literal could emit broken JavaScript.

Patch patterns are re-instantiated per chunk: chunks render concurrently and a
global RegExp carries lastIndex between matches. Edits are collected, sorted
and applied without overlaps, which MagicString rejects.

The issue-882-used fixture now builds with client sourcemaps so CI exercises
the map path.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018cCJ2TMLa1tyT1ttEu1L5v
Every auto-registered widget contributes a patch, and a build with selective
client islands registers all of them. Patching one chunk ran a full regex scan
per patch, so the cost of a chunk grew with the number of widgets in the app.
An indexOf check rules a patch out first, and a chunk holds the tokens of one
or two widgets.

Measured on a chunk carrying one widget's placeholders, 19 components
registered (38 patches):

  200 kB chunk   0.65 ms -> 0.08 ms
  1 MB chunk     3.03 ms -> 0.48 ms

Pattern construction moved into urlPatch and integrityRemovalPatch so a patch
cannot be built without the token that guards it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018cCJ2TMLa1tyT1ttEu1L5v
Vite builds the client and ssr environments from one config, so the plugin
factory runs once and both environments shared `patches` and `resolution`. A
chunk read whichever verdict resolved most recently. The environments run
serially today, so nothing was miscompiled, but the coupling was silent and a
parallel environment build would have swapped one environment's patch set into
the other's chunks.

Resolution is now keyed by environment name, and `renderChunk` reads its patch
set from the promise it awaits rather than from a field another environment can
replace mid-render.

A surviving placeholder now fails the build. A token that reaches the browser
ships as a script `src` or an SRI hash and breaks at runtime, where it is far
harder to trace. The error names the chunk, the token, the component and the
src behind it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018cCJ2TMLa1tyT1ttEu1L5v
A widget used only through `nuxt-client` inside a server component stopped
being bundled. Reachability reads the client module graph, and there every
auto-registered component is an entry with no importers, identical for a used
and an unused widget. Only the ssr graph shows the importer, and it builds
second, so the client build cannot reach the right verdict on its own.

Two changes make that recoverable:

- `scripts.assets.alwaysBundle` bundles a named component regardless of what
  the graph proves. Pass `true` to skip the check for every component.
- When one environment finds a component reachable after another judged it
  unused, the build warns, names the component and its src, and says which
  option to set. The earlier environment has already written its chunks, so
  this is reported rather than repaired.

Covered by a fixture whose widget is reachable only from a `.server.vue`
component through `nuxt-client`. Without `alwaysBundle` that build emits no
bundled asset at all.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018cCJ2TMLa1tyT1ttEu1L5v
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