feat(dev): trace requests on a timeline in the network view - #1582
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe development server now captures request and compilation spans, associates them with requests, and forwards them to the development UI. Request trace views display a timeline and compilation details. The nightly playground and tests exercise tracing, and the development documentation describes trace coverage and UI options. Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Request timelines in the dev network view can occasionally disappear for requests that are still listed, mainly under heavy internal or aborted traffic. This affects only trace display in development, so the change is mergeable with this noted. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Tracing is limited to the development UI, and request identity is protected at the server boundary. However, high-volume traced work can accumulate without a per-request storage limit, creating a potential development-server availability risk. Retained concerns
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Review comments at @packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tui/requests.ts:
- Around line 67-69: Update span eviction in the #spans capacity loop to evict
known orphan spans before spans for requests still visible in #requests. Since
spans may arrive before their request event, do not treat every ID absent from
#requests as definitively orphaned; preserve pending spans or otherwise account
for this ordering before evicting them.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Span eviction can remove spans for requests that are still visible.
The while loop evicts spans by Map insertion order. It does not check whether the request is still in #requests. A single requestId key is created when the first span arrives. Later spans for that request are appended to the existing list, so the key keeps its original position. Orphan span keys count toward #capacity, which is also the capacity of the request buffer. Spans for request IDs that never produce a request event can therefore evict the timeline of a request that is still shown in the table. Such spans come from internal or aborted requests. The code comment says that this case is expected. The impact is a lost timeline and nothing else, so this is minor.
Proposed fix: evict orphan span keys first
- while (this.#spans.size > this.#capacity) {
- this.#spans.delete(this.#spans.keys().next().value!)
- }
+ if (this.#spans.size > this.#capacity) {
+ const live = new Set(this.#requests.map(request => request.id))
+ for (const id of this.#spans.keys()) {
+ if (this.#spans.size <= this.#capacity) {
+ break
+ }
+ if (!live.has(id)) {
+ this.#spans.delete(id)
+ }
+ }
+ while (this.#spans.size > this.#capacity) {
+ this.#spans.delete(this.#spans.keys().next().value!)
+ }
+ }This fix can also evict spans whose request event has not arrived yet. Spans can arrive before their request event, so check that ordering before you apply the fix.
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| const live = new Set(this.#requests.map(request => request.id)) | |
| for (const id of this.#spans.keys()) { | |
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Review comment at @packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tui/requests.ts around lines 67 -
69:
Update span eviction in the #spans capacity loop to evict known orphan spans
before spans for requests still visible in #requests. Since spans may arrive
before their request event, do not treat every ID absent from #requests as
definitively orphaned; preserve pending spans or otherwise account for this
ordering before evicting them.
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CLI benchmark
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| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Baseline | ref:6989933a5bdc501ba53735bdeaa965ba9d3f65c1 (v4.0.0-alpha.1) |
| Head | local packages/nuxt-cli at 1309659 (v4.0.0-alpha.1) |
| Node | v24.21.0 |
| OS | Linux 6.17.0 (kernel 6.17.0-1022-azure) |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor x 4 |
| Memory | 15.6 GB |
| Load average at start | 2.13, 0.76, 0.27 |
| Run started | 2026-09-29T14:10:01.606Z |
Cold CLI startup
Median of 15 interleaved runs per command, one warmup discarded.
| Command | baseline v4.0.0-alpha.1 median | head v4.0.0-alpha.1 median | Delta | baseline v4.0.0-alpha.1 min / p95 | head v4.0.0-alpha.1 min / p95 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nuxt --version |
87 ms | 87 ms | +0.2% | 84 ms / 89 ms | 83 ms / 91 ms |
nuxt --version (first output byte) |
82 ms | 82 ms | +0.4% | 79 ms / 84 ms | 79 ms / 85 ms |
nuxt --help |
142 ms | 142 ms | +0.1% | 138 ms / 147 ms | 138 ms / 148 ms |
nuxt --help (first output byte) |
137 ms | 137 ms | +0.4% | 133 ms / 141 ms | 133 ms / 142 ms |
nuxt dev --help |
103 ms | 101 ms | -1.8% | 97 ms / 106 ms | 98 ms / 107 ms |
nuxt dev --help (first output byte) |
99 ms | 97 ms | -1.9% | 92 ms / 101 ms | 94 ms / 103 ms |
nuxt <unknown-command> (no-op) |
153 ms | 153 ms | -0.2% | 146 ms / 156 ms | 147 ms / 155 ms |
nuxt <unknown-command> (no-op) (first output byte) |
147 ms | 147 ms | -0.3% | 140 ms / 151 ms | 142 ms / 150 ms |
Module load cost
Counted with a module.registerHooks load hook, compile cache disabled. Counts every JS module actually evaluated on that code path (built-ins excluded, native addons excluded).
| Command | baseline v4.0.0-alpha.1 modules | head v4.0.0-alpha.1 modules | Delta | baseline v4.0.0-alpha.1 source bytes | head v4.0.0-alpha.1 source bytes | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nuxt --version |
37 | 37 | 0.0% | 297.6 kB | 297.6 kB | 0.0% |
nuxt --help |
145 | 145 | 0.0% | 957.5 kB | 957.7 kB | +0.0% |
nuxt dev --help |
63 | 63 | 0.0% | 454.9 kB | 455.1 kB | +0.0% |
Install footprint and published tarball
Each version installed on its own into an empty project with nothing but @nuxt/cli as a dependency, so the tree is exactly the CLI and its transitive dependencies. npm cache is warm and the registry is only consulted for metadata, so install wall time is indicative, not a network benchmark.
| Metric | baseline v4.0.0-alpha.1 | head v4.0.0-alpha.1 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
Direct dependencies of @nuxt/cli |
23 | 23 | 0.0% |
| Packages in the installed tree (unique name@version) | 39 | 39 | 0.0% |
| Unique package names | 39 | 39 | 0.0% |
| Package directories on disk (cross-check) | 32 | 32 | 0.0% |
Installed node_modules on disk |
2.41 MB | 2.43 MB | +0.8% |
| Installed files | 432 | 434 | +0.5% |
| Install wall time (warm npm cache, median of 3) | 1.26 s | 1.27 s | +0.9% |
| Published tarball (packed) | 234.8 kB | 241.1 kB | +2.7% |
| Published tarball (unpacked) | 761.1 kB | 781.6 kB | +2.7% |
| Files in tarball | 97 | 99 | +2.1% |
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this adds an implementation to show perf details on a per-request basis 🔥