chore: replace lvh.me and veryfront.dev dev hostnames with localhost - #3691
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lvh.me and veryfront.dev are public DNS names that resolve to 127.0.0.1.
DNS rebind protection blocks that answer by default on FRITZ!Box routers,
most corporate DNS, and Pi-hole, leaving the local stack unreachable with
no actionable error. veryfront.dev no longer resolves at all, so paths
keyed on it were already dead.
localhost and *.localhost are reserved by RFC 6761, resolve without a
resolver, and are W3C Secure Contexts.
Most allowlists already carried a localhost entry from an earlier
migration, so the correct edit was usually to delete the lvh.me /
veryfront.dev entry rather than translate it.
- domain-parser: LOCAL_DEV_DOMAINS collapses to a single-label root; the
eTLD+1 'last two labels' branch in isLocalDevHost is removed.
- local-control-request: TRUSTED_LOCAL_CONTROL_ROOTS collapses to one
constant. Shape rules and loopback-peer/proxy-hop/Fetch-Metadata
requirements are unchanged, so admission strictly narrows.
- dev projects API: the empty-host fallback becomes localhost.
- mdx http-fetcher: the local module server origin becomes {slug}.localhost.
- Tests: drop cases that already had an exact localhost twin, convert the
rest, and cover the removed negative class with a neutral
wildcard-dns.example host. Adds anchoring and port-handling tests for
the single-label suffix match.
- Deletes two now-dead paths: the e2e COOP 'untrustworthy origin' console
ignore (*.localhost is trustworthy) and the .veryfront.dev negative
assertions guarding an old wildcard Studio origin check.
Regenerates docs/api-reference for the changed JSDoc.
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When projectSlug is present, this makes the Deno HTTP fallback fetch hosts such as docs.localhost. The .localhost reservation does not guarantee that OS resolver libraries resolve arbitrary subdomains, and standard Linux/glibc environments commonly return EAI_AGAIN or ENOTFOUND for docs.localhost while resolving only bare localhost. In those environments, a local MDX filesystem-read failure can no longer reach the dev server. The same issue affects the Node readiness fetch now pointed at <slug>.localhost in tests/e2e/setup/server.ts. Use a guaranteed loopback destination while preserving the project routing authority, or otherwise provide an explicit resolver-independent mapping.
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Addressed in c4d994d — the concern is real, but the suggested remedy is not implementable in this runtime.
Why the Host-header approach does not work. Pinning the connection to 127.0.0.1 while preserving project routing requires overriding Host. Deno's fetch silently drops that override. Verified against a live Deno.serve:
fetch('http://127.0.0.1:4711/x', { headers: { Host: 'docs.localhost:4711' } })
// server saw Host = 127.0.0.1:4711
So the request would arrive without its project, and the dev server would resolve the wrong one. Header-based routing is not an option either: getEffectiveProjectSlug resolves the project from the host only, so honouring x-veryfront-project-slug here would be a dev-server feature change rather than a fix.
What was done instead. The fetch now retries against bare localhost when — and only when — the host is a *.localhost subdomain and the failure is a name-resolution error (dns error, failed to lookup address, ENOTFOUND, EAI_AGAIN, name or service not known). AbortError is explicitly excluded so timeouts and cancellations are never retried. On fallback the dev server resolves the project from its configured slug, which is the correct project in single-project local dev — the case this fallback exists to serve.
That restores reachability on a plain glibc NSS setup while keeping subdomain routing wherever the .localhost tree resolves (macOS, systemd-resolved, CI).
tests/e2e/setup/server.ts runs only in CI, where .localhost subdomains resolve — its integration suite is green — so it is left as-is.
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production.localhostfrom development-host admission.Line 297 excludes only names that contain
.production..production.localhostparses as the production environment root, but it does not match that expression. The function then returnstrueat line 299.Exclude the exact production root. Add
isLocalDevHost("production.localhost") === falsebeside the parse-based hostname tests.Proposed fix
- if (parsed.environment === "production" && /\.production\./i.test(domain)) return false; + if ( + parsed.environment === "production" && + (domain === "production.localhost" || /\.production\./i.test(domain)) + ) return false;🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 294-297: Update the development-host admission logic in the domain
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Codex (P1) — MDX HTTP fallback could become unreachable. The fallback fetches <slug>.localhost. RFC 6761 only *recommends* that resolvers map the .localhost tree to loopback; macOS, systemd-resolved and CI honour it for arbitrary subdomains, but a plain glibc NSS setup can resolve only the bare name and fail with EAI_AGAIN/ENOTFOUND. There the fallback could no longer reach the dev server at all. The suggested remedy — pin the connection to 127.0.0.1 and keep routing via a Host header — is not implementable here: Deno's fetch silently drops a Host override. Verified against a local Deno.serve: the server saw 127.0.0.1, not the supplied name. So the request would arrive without its project. Instead the fetch now retries against bare localhost when, and only when, the host is a *.localhost subdomain and the failure is a name-resolution error. Aborts (timeout/cancellation) are explicitly excluded so they are never retried. On fallback the dev server resolves the project from its configured slug, which is the correct project in single-project local dev. CodeRabbit (Major) — production.localhost admitted as a dev host. isLocalDevHost excluded production simulations with a /\.production\./ test, which requires the label to be infixed and so missed the bare production root. Now both the leading and infixed forms are excluded, with tests pinning production.localhost and staging.localhost as non-dev hosts.
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On Linux/NSS environments that resolve only bare localhost, this readiness URL never resolves. I checked the waitForReady loop in this file, which passes readinessUrl directly to Node's fetch; in the current files dns NSS environment, Node 24 returns EAI_AGAIN for blank.localhost while resolving localhost. The c4 follow-up adds a fallback only inside the MDX HTTP fetcher, so this direct poll is fresh evidence that the prior issue remains: both development and production E2E setup retry for 60 seconds and fail before Playwright starts. Poll a resolver-independent bare-loopback URL instead.
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When a project subdomain fails DNS during local multi-project development, changing the hostname to bare localhost also discards the tenant identity. VeryfrontDevServer.resolveDefaultProjectSlug() intentionally returns undefined for a multi-project directory, while request resolution obtains the selected slug from the host or x-project-slug, so this retry reaches /_vf_modules without enough information to route to the requested project. Fresh evidence after c4 is that the new retry never adds x-project-slug or an equivalent routing signal; preserve the original project slug when issuing the bare-localhost request.
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Follow-up to the two findings Codex raised against the previous fix. P1 — e2e readiness poll. tests/e2e/setup/server.ts polled http://<slug>.localhost:8080/ and passed it straight to Node's fetch, so on an NSS setup that resolves only the bare name it never resolves and the setup retries for 60s before Playwright starts. The earlier fix covered only the MDX fetcher. The poll now targets bare localhost and carries the project in x-project-slug. P2 — tenant identity lost on retry. The localhost retry dropped the project. resolveDefaultProjectSlug() returns undefined for a multi-project workspace, so the retry reached the module route with nothing to route on. The retry now sets x-project-slug. x-project-slug is the right carrier: the dev server already reads it inbound (server/context/request-context.ts, server/dev-server/middleware.ts, server/runtime-handler/project-resolution.ts), and unlike Host it is a header fetch is permitted to set — which is what made the originally suggested 127.0.0.1 + Host approach unworkable. Tests cover the fallback path and the abort path. Both were mutation-checked: inverting the AbortError guard and dropping the slug each turn the suite red.
Second round addressed (3dde755)Both follow-up findings were valid, and the second one corrected a wrong conclusion of mine — thank you. P1, P2, tenant identity on the retry: fixed, and my earlier reasoning was wrong. I claimed header-based routing wasn't available, having grepped for
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When VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN enables this test on a plain glibc/NSS host that resolves only bare localhost, Deno's direct fetch of flow-ops.localhost fails with EAI_AGAIN or ENOTFOUND before any assertion runs. The MDX fallback and Playwright readiness setup in this same change already account for that resolver behavior, but this integration path still assumes every *.localhost name resolves. Use a resolver-independent connection while preserving Host: flow-ops.localhost (for example, a raw loopback HTTP request), since resolving the slug from that authority is what the test intends to verify.
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The VFS integration test fetched flow-ops.localhost directly, so on a plain glibc NSS host that resolves only the bare name it fails with EAI_AGAIN before any assertion runs. Host-based slug resolution is precisely what the test verifies, so the authority cannot simply be swapped for a header. It now issues a raw HTTP/1.1 request over a loopback TCP connection with an explicit Host header. Verified against a live Deno.serve: the connection goes to 127.0.0.1 while the server sees Host: flow-ops.localhost, custom headers pass through, and the status line and body parse correctly. Also runs deno fmt over the files touched in the previous two commits, which failed ci (format).
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Deno.Conn.write() may resolve after writing fewer bytes than supplied, but this discards the returned byte count. If a short write occurs under socket pressure, the server waits for the remainder of the headers while this helper waits indefinitely for a response, hanging the integration test. Loop until the entire encoded request is written, or use a write-all helper.
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Deno.Conn.write is a low-level write and may consume fewer bytes than supplied. The helper discarded the returned count, so a short write under socket pressure would leave the server waiting for the rest of the headers while the helper waited for a response — a hang rather than a failure. Now loops until the whole request is on the wire. Proven with a connection rigged to accept 7 bytes per call: 14 iterations to drain 98 bytes, request completes with the Host authority intact. Before the fix only the first 7 bytes would have been sent.
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On Linux/NSS environments that resolve only bare localhost, this URL fails in the Playwright request fixture before reaching the server because that fixture performs networking in Node, not Chromium. I checked smoke.playwright.ts and multi-project.playwright.ts; both pass runtime.getUrl(...) directly to request.get, so the readiness fallback in setup/server.ts does not protect these tests and the E2E suite still fails with EAI_AGAIN. Use a resolver-independent destination while preserving the project routing authority.
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Valid, and correctly scoped — but I am going to defer this one rather than fix it in this PR, and I want to be explicit about why.
The blast radius is 2 call sites, not the whole helper. getUrl has 14 usages; 12 are page.goto/visit, which run in Chromium and resolve *.localhost internally. Only these perform Node-side I/O:
tests/e2e/smoke.playwright.ts:68tests/e2e/multi-project.playwright.ts:35
Why not just point them at bare loopback. The two runtime configs encode the environment in the host, not only the project:
production-host -> <slug>.localhost:8080
preview-host -> <slug>.preview.localhost:8080
Collapsing to localhost:8080 + x-project-slug preserves the project but drops the preview/production distinction, so preview-host would silently stop testing preview resolution. Substituting x-environment would be me guessing at resolution semantics I have not verified. Either way the change alters what these assertions cover, which is worse than the resolver dependency it removes.
Judgement. This PR has now had four review rounds, and three of them found real defects in fixes I wrote — including a hang in the raw-socket helper that a previous round of this same concern produced. Continuing to convert working, CI-green test paths into hand-rolled networking is trading a narrow hypothetical failure for a broader real one.
Scope check on the regression itself: the pre-migration code used .lvh.me, which needs public DNS. .localhost needs a resolver honouring RFC 6761. Neither is universal — this is a changed dependency, not a new one, and on the environments this team actually uses (macOS, GitHub runners) both the old and new forms resolve. All e2e and integration suites are green here.
Tracked as a follow-up rather than dropped. Happy to take it if you disagree.
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Why
lvh.meandveryfront.devare public DNS names that resolve to 127.0.0.1. That makes themconvenient — until a resolver refuses to hand back a loopback answer.
DNS rebind protection does exactly that, and it is on by default in a lot of places developers
actually work: FRITZ!Box routers, most corporate DNS, Pi-hole, and many enterprise VPN resolvers.
When it triggers, the name simply fails to resolve. The local stack becomes unreachable and the
developer gets no actionable error — just a connection failure against a hostname that "works on
everyone else's machine".
veryfront.devdoes not resolve at all any more, so every code pathkeyed on it was already dead.
localhostand*.localhostare reserved by RFC 6761, are resolved locally without ever hittinga resolver, and are W3C Secure Contexts (so
navigator.mediaDevices/getUserMediakeep workingin browsers and in WKWebView/Tauri).
What changed
Local development moves to bare
localhostwith distinct ports:http://studio.lvh.me:3000http://localhost:3000http://api.lvh.me:4000http://localhost:4000http://<slug>.lvh.me:3001http://<slug>.preview.localhost:3001Bare
localhostrather thanstudio.localhost/api.localhostis deliberate. Cookies ignoreports, so a host-only cookie on
localhostis automatically shared betweenlocalhost:3000andlocalhost:4000. Splitting them into separate hostnames would make them separate cookie hosts andbreak local auth, because
Domain=localhostandDomain=.localhostare both rejected outright bybrowsers — a cookie may not be scoped to a single-label/TLD name.
Most allowlists in this repo already carried a
localhostentry from an earlier migration, so thecorrect edit was usually to delete the
lvh.me/veryfront.deventry rather than translateit. That is why the diff removes more than it adds.
Accepted, known regression
Per-project preview subdomains (
<slug>.preview.localhost:3001) can no longer receive a sharedauth cookie, because no
Domainattribute can span.localhost. This affects protected previewenvironments in local development only; hosted preview environments are unaffected. This was
accepted explicitly as part of the move. No workaround is included by design.
Semantic traps handled
These were not blind replacements —
lvh.meis a two-label registrable domain andlocalhostisa single label, so several call sites needed real thought.
Registrable domain / eTLD+1 (
domain-parser.ts,local-control-request.ts). Both filescarried "last two labels" reasoning for the two-label roots alongside a whole-suffix match for
localhost. Withlocalhostas the only root, the eTLD+1 branch is gone and the whole-suffixmatch is the single path.
LOCAL_DEV_DOMAINScollapses to"localhost";TRUSTED_LOCAL_CONTROL_ROOTScollapses from a two-element frozen array to one constant, and theloop over it goes with it.
Security allowlists — narrowed, never widened. Every removed alternative in
local-control-request.ts(privileged local-control admission), the dev-dashboard access policy,and
isLocalDevHost(HMR admission) was a trust grant. Removing them strictly shrinks what isadmitted; nothing new was added. The shape rules are untouched: the named root still admits only
the bare host, one project label, or one project below
preview, andproduction,staging,custom-domain simulation, and unknown namespaces stay denied. Loopback-peer, proxy-hop, and
Fetch-Metadata requirements are unchanged. The MCP host allowlist (
cli/mcp/server.ts) and theagent-service
ALLOWED_ORIGINSdefault were already loopback-only and needed no edit.Port handling.
/\.localhost$/does not matchapp.localhost:3000.isLocalDevHoststripsthe port before the suffix test, so the pattern is correct at that call site — and there is now an
explicit test pinning
myproject.localhost:3001, plus tests that the suffix match is anchored(
notlocalhostandlocalhost.attacker.exampleare both rejected).Cookie scope. Checked and found not to apply in this repo: there is no eTLD+1 / "last two
labels" cookie-domain logic here. The dev-dashboard session cookie is host-only, and its test
already asserts no
Domain=attribute is emitted. No dead shared-cookie path to remove.Escaped-dot spellings. Enumeration used both
lvh\.meandlvh\\.me(and the same forveryfront.dev), because an escaped-dot regex in source is invisible to a plain grep. Two liveregexes were only findable this way:
LOCAL_DEV_DOMAINSand theisLocalTLDtest inisLocalDevHost.Test changes
Removed lvh.me/veryfront.dev cases that already had an exact
localhosttwin, rather than leavingduplicate coverage. Where no twin existed, the case was converted. To keep the class of coverage
that the deleted negative cases provided — "a public registrable domain is not a local dev root or
a control authority" — new cases use a neutral
wildcard-dns.examplehost indomain-parser.test.ts,local-control-request.test.ts, andaccess-policy.test.ts.Two pieces of genuinely dead code were deleted rather than left unreachable:
tests/e2e/helpers/assertions.tsignored a Chrome COOP "origin was untrustworthy" consolewarning that only fired because plain-HTTP
lvh.meis not a potentially-trustworthy origin.*.localhostis, so the warning can no longer occur.assertEquals(script.includes(".veryfront.dev"), false)guardedagainst an old wildcard-suffix Studio origin check. The sibling guards that actually enforce the
policy —
includes("endsWith") === falseandincludes("studio.veryfront.com") === false—remain in place.
Verification
Run in
veryfront-code, real outcomes:deno task fmt— exit 0deno task lint— exit 0deno task typecheck— exit 0deno task docs— regenerated;docs/api-reference/veryfront/server.mdchanged and is committeddeno task docs:api-reference:check— exit 0deno task docs:public:check— exit 0deno task lint:module-boundaries,lint:dependency-boundaries,lint:skipped-tests,lint:ban-test-only— all exit 0deno task test(full unit suite) — exit 0, 4310 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignoredA note on flakiness, so the numbers are not misread
The first full-suite run on this branch reported 2 failed steps, in
src/cache/backends/disk.test.tsand
src/proxy/asset-handler.test.ts. Neither file was touched by this change and neitherreferences a hostname, so I checked rather than assumed:
origin/mainalso failed with 2 steps — but in twodifferent files (
cli/commands/dev/dev-output.integration.test.tsandcli/commands/demo/demo.integration.test.ts).Different failure sets across runs, on both the branch and unmodified
main, points attiming-sensitive tests under full parallel load rather than at this change. Flagging it because the
suite is not reliably green on
maineither — that is worth a separate look, and it is notsomething this PR fixes.
Enumeration after the change is zero for both hostnames in both spellings — checked with both the
escaped-dot and plain patterns, across tracked files and a filesystem scan that also covers
untracked and ignored files.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
localhost, including project and preview subdomains.Security
localhosthost patterns.Documentation
Tests