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fix(prerender): strip baseURL from crawled links - #4688

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🔗 Linked issue

Resolves #4441

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📚 Description

With baseURL set, the prerenderer mixes two kinds of route names. Initial routes are relative to baseURL (/, /about). Links crawled from rendered HTML include the base, because that is how the app links to itself (/base/, /base/about). The crawler adds the crawled links to the queue as they are:

  • Pages render twice. / and /base/ are different entries in generatedRoutes, so the same page renders again and both results are written to index.html. This is the duplicate / vs /base/ output in the log from prerendering with baseURL !== '/' prerenders routes with / #4441.
  • prerender.ignore and prerender: false stop working for crawled links. Their patterns are relative to baseURL (/admin). canPrerender("/base/admin") does not match them, so a page the user excluded gets rendered and written anyway.

The fix uses the baseURL-relative path (withoutBase) of each crawled link only as its queue key: for dedupe, prerender.ignore, route rules and the reported route. The link is still fetched, resolved for relative links, and written by its original path, exactly as before. So a route that itself starts with the base segment (/base/base/about, the /base/about route) still goes to base/about/index.html and doesn't overwrite about/index.html. Explicit prerender.routes entries are unchanged. With the default baseURL: "/", nothing changes.

Reproduction (added as test/vite/prerender-baseurl.test.ts): a static preset app with baseURL: "/base/", crawlLinks: true, routes: ["/"] and ignore: ["/admin"]. Every page links to /base/, /base/about, /base/admin and /base/base/about.

  • Before (on 9cf83c8f), all 3 tests fail. Rendered routes are ["/", "/base/", "/base/about", "/base/admin", "/base/base/about"]: the home page renders twice (the /base/ render overwrites index.html), and the ignored /admin page is rendered.
  • After: rendered routes are ["/", "/about", "/base/about"], each file holds its own page, and all 3 tests pass.

Checks:

  • pnpm vitest run test/unit test/vite: all pass except test/unit/bump-version.test.ts > fmtDate, which depends on the timezone and fails the same way on main.
  • NITRO_BUILDER=rollup pnpm vitest run on the node, static, netlify and vercel preset tests: 256 passed.
  • pnpm lint and pnpm typecheck pass.

This bug was found, fixed and tested with AI assistance (Claude), and verified with the checks above.

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  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.

Crawled links include baseURL while prerender routes are relative to it, so each crawled page rendered a second time and bypassed prerender.ignore and route rules.
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The prerenderer checks crawled routes relative to baseURL and retains each original path for fetching and output-path calculation. A Vite fixture tests route collection and generated HTML when baseURL is /base/.

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Base URL prerendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve and process crawled paths
src/prerender/prerender.ts
Crawled links have baseURL removed before eligibility checks and queueing. The prerenderer uses each saved original path for fetching, output-path calculation, and link extraction.
Verify routes with a base URL
test/vite/prerender-baseurl-fixture/*, test/vite/prerender-baseurl.test.ts
The fixture configures /base/, serves HTML with base URL links, and ignores /admin. The test checks collected routes, generated HTML, and the absence of /admin and /base/admin.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7c345

The base URL prerendering change has no established merge-blocking risk; its fixture covers route collection, generated output, and ignored routes.

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Changed systems: src, test

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  • observed — src (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — test (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in test/vite/prerender-baseurl-fixture/nitro.config.ts: Adds a Nitro configuration for static output with base URL /base/; prerendering starts at /, crawls links, and ignores /admin.
  • observed — Modified behavior in test/vite/prerender-baseurl-fixture/vite.config.ts: The fixture now imports defineConfig from Vite and nitro from nitro/vite, then exports a configuration with nitro() in its plugins array.
  • observed — Modified behavior in test/vite/prerender-baseurl-fixture/server.ts: Added a default-exported fetch handler that reads the request pathname and returns it with four base-URL links in an HTML response.
  • observed — Modified behavior in test/vite/prerender-baseurl.test.ts: Adds test setup that clears and recreates the fixture output directory, creates a Nitro instance using the Vite builder, records prerender:route events, runs preparation and build, and closes Nitro in a finally block.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title follows the Conventional Commits format with the fix type and clearly describes the prerender change.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the baseURL prerendering issue, the fix, the added tests, and reported validation checks.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes meet #4441. The crawler uses each discovered link’s baseURL-relative route for deduplication and prerender eligibility, so /base/ does not render a second copy of /, and ignored `/admi…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The supplied whole-PR summary identifies the prerender normalization and its focused fixture and test as the changes. These changes support #4441. The unrelated changes in the incremental diff are ups…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 5 files.
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Review comments at @src/prerender/prerender.ts:
- Line 315: In the prerender flow around generateRoute, keep each crawled link’s
raw path separate from its normalized queue key: use the normalized path for
eligibility and deduplication, but preserve the raw path for requests,
relative-link extraction, and output filenames. Leave explicit
nitro.options.prerender.routes entries unchanged, and add a regression test
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Comment thread src/prerender/prerender.ts
breken-ai and others added 2 commits September 29, 2026 20:50
Use the baseURL-relative route only as the dedupe and ignore key, so a route that itself starts with the base segment (/base/base/about) is still fetched and written as before.
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