Not getting error on missing assets in development

[thijsnado]

I noticed that there is no error if you point to a non existent stylesheet. It would be great if vite_stylesheet_tag (and probably the other tag helpers) would error out instead of just showing the vite-ruby splash page. Some stylesheets can have subtle style rules which get missed by developers if there is a typo.

[ElMassimo]

Hi Thijs!

You should be getting a 404 when the browser requests the non-existing stylesheet, as that's what the Vite dev server does by default.

Feel free to share a screenshot if that's not the case.

[thijsnado]

Yes, the browser does a 404 but you don't necessarily notice that unless you are looking at your developer console. Doing the same thing with sprockets would give you a nice Sprockets::Rails::Helper::AssetNotFound error which made it clear you had a typo and which line in the ERB file had the issue. The 404 in the browser is a little harder to debug.

[ElMassimo]

That's the expected behavior with Vite, assets are processed on the fly as they are requested, in some cases there's no way to know if an asset won't be found (some assets are virtual, they don't exist in the filesystem).

[thijsnado]

Ahh, okay, I may make a custom helper in our codebase to grep the entrypoints for stuff like this then.