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🔗 Linked issue

Part of #6918, stacked on #7058. Epic E of #6610: component detection in the Vite dev server.

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  • 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation or readme)
  • 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality)
  • ✨ New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • 🧹 Chore (updates to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries)
  • ⚠️ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

📚 Description

With detection on by default (#7058), a Vue app that starts using a new component in dev got no CSS for it until the dev server restarted, since the Vite plugin only detected once, in its config hook. Nuxt already re-detects through builder:watch.

The plugin now re-detects when a source or Markdown file is added, changed or removed (debounced), and rewrites ui.css when the detected set changes. The templates live in node_modules/.nuxt-ui, which Vite doesn't watch, so it then emits a change for ui.css itself, and @tailwindcss/vite rebuilds the CSS that imports it.

Checked with Vite in middleware mode on the vue-detection bundle fixture: adding a file with <UCalendar /> logs Nuxt UI detected new components: Calendar, and the transformed CSS gains its classes (67.8 → 76.2 kB). Removing the file takes them out again. Without the emitted change, ui.css is rewritten but the CSS stays the same. A unit test covers the plugin side with a fake watcher.

The Vue installation page drops its "restart the dev server" warning.

After the stack review: Hardened: runs are serialized, errors are caught, the unknown-name warnings only print on the first run, and component dirs outside the root are added to the watcher. Nuxt dev now emits change for .nuxt/ui.css after updateTemplates when it changed, since Vite doesn't watch the build dir.

After the design challenge: a re-detection also reloads the #build/ui/detected module, so the dev warning from #7058 reads the new list.

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  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.

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The template plugin now rescans configured component paths after eligible source-file changes in development. When the detected component set changes, it rewrites templates and emits a Vite watcher change for ui.css. A new test checks that adding a Vue file using UCalendar updates generated CSS and emits the change. The documentation now states that component CSS is generated when the file using the component is saved.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 73af9

New component use in the previously affected source directories now triggers CSS refresh, and overlapping scans cannot apply stale results. No established merge-blocking issue remains.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 42.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 4 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: Vite now detects newly used components while the development server runs.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the development-server re-detection behavior, CSS updates, module reloads, testing, and documentation change.
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In @src/plugins/templates.ts:
- Around line 117-120: Update the redetect function so overlapping scans cannot
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`server.watcher.on('all', ...)` listener to also watch configured
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