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🔗 Linked issue

Fixes #4427

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📚 Description

On Vercel, a request for a public asset that does not exist (for example an old hashed chunk after a redeploy) fell through to the server function. The response, usually an HTML page, was then served with the immutable, max-age=31536000 header meant for assets, and browsers and the CDN cached it for a year.

This PR makes a missing asset under a non-fallthrough public asset directory return a plain 404 with Cache-Control: no-store at the Vercel edge, before it can reach the server function. This matches what the Nitro runtime and the other presets already do.

{ "src": "/build/(.*)", "headers": { "cache-control": "public, max-age=3600, immutable" }, "continue": true },
{ "handle": "filesystem" },
{ "src": "/build/(.*)", "status": 404, "headers": { "cache-control": "no-store" } }

While doing this, a few related problems in the same code were fixed:

  • Sibling paths no longer match. The route source was /build(.*), which also matched /buildings. It is now /build/(.*), and regex characters in the base are escaped.
  • The root base (/) is skipped. A /(.*) rule would have applied to every response, and with the new 404 rule would have broken every dynamic route.
  • maxAge is respected. The header was hardcoded to one year regardless of the directory's maxAge. It is now built from maxAge, with one year as the default when maxAge is not set.
  • maxAge: 0 means no caching. An explicit 0 no longer gets the one-year default. Only a directory that never sets maxAge does.

Docs for the Vercel preset explain the caching behaviour and how to opt out.

🧪 Tests

  • Unit tests for the generated routes (test/unit/vercel-public-asset-routes.test.ts) and the maxAge resolution (test/unit/assets-resolver.test.ts).
  • The Vercel preset test checks the 404 rule sits right after the filesystem handle.
  • Verified end to end on a real Vercel deployment: existing assets get the expected header, missing ones return 404 with no-store, sibling paths and dynamic routes are unaffected.

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  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.

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The Vercel preset now accepts route rules when generating public-asset routes. Existing Cache-Control rules override generated immutable caching. Missing assets retain post-filesystem 404 and no-store handling.

Changes

Vercel public asset caching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public asset route generation
src/presets/vercel/utils.ts
getPublicAssetRoutes accepts baseURL and routeRules, returns optional cacheControl, and suppresses generated caching when a matching Cache-Control rule exists. Missing assets retain post-filesystem 404 responses with no-store.
Public asset route validation
test/unit/vercel-public-asset-routes.test.ts, test/presets/vercel.test.ts
Tests cover route-rule precedence, header casing, unrelated headers, configured maxAge, missing assets, and the single immutable build-asset rule.
Vercel preset integration
test/presets/vercel.test.ts
Preset expectations include wildcard-query redirects, middleware-order routes, and the generated middleware-order function.
Vercel caching documentation
docs/2.deploy/20.providers/vercel.md
Documentation describes the one-year default, uncached missing assets, route-rule overrides, and fallthrough behavior.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 99075

The Vercel asset-routing change correctly targets uncached missing-asset responses, but deployments that explicitly configure a zero asset cache lifetime can instead receive one-year immutable caching. This configuration regression should be fixed before merge.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request includes redirect and proxy rewrite destination changes that are not identified in issue #4427 or the stated objectives. Remove the unrelated redirect and proxy rewrite destination changes, or link an issue and document why those changes are required for this pull request.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #4427 by preventing immutable cache headers from reaching HTML fallbacks and by returning an uncached 404 after the filesystem check.
Title check ✅ Passed The title follows the Conventional Commits format with the fix(vercel): prefix and accurately summarizes the main Vercel caching fix.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the missing public asset caching bug, the Vercel route changes, related fixes, documentation, and tests.
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@pi0x pi0x added bug Something isn't working preset:vercel cache v3 labels Sep 2, 2026
Public asset rules were filtered only on `!fallthrough`. An explicit
`{ baseURL: "/", fallthrough: false }` produced a `/(.*)` source, which
now shadows the `/__server` fallback and 404s every dynamic route. The
runtime excludes the root base from `publicAssetBases` for the same
reason, as does Netlify's `getStaticPaths`.

The cache-control rule also hardcoded `max-age=31536000`, overriding the
route rule that `resolveAssetsOptions` derives from the directory's
`maxAge`. Build the header from `maxAge` instead, falling back to one
year when unset, as the AWS Amplify preset does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/presets/vercel/utils.ts`:
- Around line 424-427: Update getPublicAssetRoutes to accept an options object
as its second parameter, with baseURL accessed from that object. Update every
caller and test to pass { baseURL } while preserving the existing
route-generation behavior.
- Line 432: Update the maxAge handling in the asset configuration flow to use
DEFAULT_PUBLIC_ASSET_MAX_AGE only when asset.maxAge is unset, preserving an
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Comment thread src/presets/vercel/utils.ts Outdated
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A directory with a `maxAge` already gets a `cache-control` route rule from
`resolveAssetsOptions`, which is emitted as its own route earlier in the
routes array. The public asset rule repeated it and, having no `continue`
before it, never applied anyway.

Skipping the header when a `cache-control` route rule already matches the
base also makes route rules an opt out of the one-year default, which
`maxAge: 0` cannot express.

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Comment thread test/presets/vercel.test.ts
pi0 and others added 2 commits September 3, 2026 23:35
An explicit `maxAge: 0` on a non-fallthrough public asset directory no longer
gets the one-year default header. Only a directory that never set `maxAge`
does.
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