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🔗 Linked issue

resolves #1657

📚 Description

nuxt dev always passed extends: args.extends into the overrides, which is [] when you don't use --extends. defu lets that [] win over a string extends from nuxt.config, so the layer got dropped.

Now it's only passed when the flag has a value, like build, prepare, preview, typecheck and analyze already do. Added a test for the empty case.

Checked it against the repro from the issue: the layer page shows up with plain nuxt dev now.

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commit: ffbabe1

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CLI benchmark

@nuxt/cli v4.0.3 (baseline) vs v4.0.3 (this PR)

Metric	baseline v4.0.3	head v4.0.3	Delta
nuxt --version wall time (median)	68 ms	67 ms	-0.9%
nuxt --help wall time (median)	145 ms	144 ms	-0.4%
nuxt dev --help wall time (median)	110 ms	109 ms	-0.7%
nuxt --version modules loaded	35	35	0.0%
nuxt --version built-ins loaded	29	29	0.0%
nuxt --help modules loaded	136	136	0.0%
nuxt --help built-ins loaded	93	93	0.0%
nuxt dev --help modules loaded	64	64	0.0%
nuxt dev --help built-ins loaded	90	90	0.0%
Installed node_modules	2.56 MB	2.56 MB	+0.0%
Published tarball (packed)	245.6 kB	245.6 kB	+0.0%

Full report

@nuxt/cli v4.0.3 (baseline) vs v4.0.3 (head)

Setting	Value
Baseline	ref:93d0ca084256a6e31777053e1ca67a66539a3430 (v4.0.3)
Head	local packages/nuxt-cli at 2434c86 (v4.0.3)
Node	v24.22.2
OS	Linux 7.0.0 (kernel 7.0.0-1017-azure)
CPU	AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor x 4
Memory	15.6 GB
Load average at start	1.00, 0.34, 0.12
Run started	2026-11-08T21:13:39.160Z

Cold CLI startup

Median of 15 interleaved runs per command, one warmup discarded.

Command	baseline v4.0.3 median	head v4.0.3 median	Delta	baseline v4.0.3 min / p95	head v4.0.3 min / p95
nuxt --version	68 ms	67 ms	-0.9%	64 ms / 72 ms	66 ms / 70 ms
nuxt --version (first output byte)	63 ms	63 ms	-1.4%	59 ms / 67 ms	61 ms / 65 ms
nuxt --help	145 ms	144 ms	-0.4%	141 ms / 148 ms	142 ms / 148 ms
nuxt --help (first output byte)	139 ms	139 ms	-0.4%	135 ms / 143 ms	136 ms / 142 ms
nuxt dev --help	110 ms	109 ms	-0.7%	105 ms / 116 ms	103 ms / 113 ms
nuxt dev --help (first output byte)	105 ms	104 ms	-0.5%	100 ms / 110 ms	97 ms / 108 ms
nuxt <unknown-command> (no-op)	155 ms	154 ms	-1.0%	151 ms / 160 ms	151 ms / 158 ms
nuxt <unknown-command> (no-op) (first output byte)	149 ms	147 ms	-1.0%	144 ms / 153 ms	145 ms / 151 ms

Module load cost

Counted with a module.registerHooks load hook, compile cache disabled. Counts every JS module actually evaluated on that code path (native addons excluded). Built-ins loaded after bootstrap are counted separately, including the internal modules they load.

Command	baseline v4.0.3 modules	head v4.0.3 modules	Delta	baseline v4.0.3 source bytes	head v4.0.3 source bytes	Delta	baseline v4.0.3 built-ins	head v4.0.3 built-ins	Delta
nuxt --version	35	35	0.0%	299.9 kB	299.9 kB	0.0%	29	29	0.0%
nuxt --help	136	136	0.0%	859.7 kB	859.7 kB	0.0%	93	93	0.0%
nuxt dev --help	64	64	0.0%	459.5 kB	459.5 kB	0.0%	90	90	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 v4.0.3	head v4.0.3	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	2.56 MB	2.56 MB	+0.0%
Installed files	442	442	0.0%
Install wall time (warm npm cache, median of 3)	1.39 s	1.39 s	-0.6%
Published tarball (packed)	245.6 kB	245.6 kB	+0.0%
Published tarball (unpacked)	794.7 kB	794.8 kB	+0.0%
Files in tarball	104	104	0.0%

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When the CLI extends argument is an empty array, initialize no longer adds it to the dev server overrides. A unit test checks that the resulting overrides do not contain an extends property.

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Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The fix preserves configured layers when no CLI override is supplied. It is mergeable with a follow-up integration test covering plain nuxt dev with a string extends configuration.

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the fix: preserving a string extends value from nuxt.config during nuxt dev.
Description check		The description directly explains the bug, the fix, the added test, and the reported result. It is related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check		The change addresses issue #1657. initialize now adds the extends override only when devContext.args.extends has entries. An empty --extends value therefore does not replace the string configu…
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The change addresses issue #1657. initialize now adds the extends override only when devContext.args.extends has entries. An empty --extends value therefore does not replace the string configured in nuxt.config. The added unit test verifies that no extends override is created when the array is empty.

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Nitpick comments: 1

packages/nuxt-cli/test/unit/dev/initialize.spec.ts: 1

119-119: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add an end-to-end check for a string extends in plain nuxt dev.

The new unit test checks only the options passed to NuxtDevServer, and it mocks that class. No test runs plain nuxt dev with a string extends in nuxt.config. The existing end-to-end test covers only --extends, so a regression in the configured-layer path would not fail the suite.

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Add an end-to-end test for plain `nuxt dev` with a string `extends` configured
in `nuxt.config`. The existing `--extends` end-to-end coverage and the mocked
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