fix(build): reject output cleanup that deletes public assets

[charan-rathore]

🔗 Linked issue

Resolves #4679

❓ Type of change

• 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

📚 Description

prepare() deletes the output dirs (output.dir, output.publicDir, output.serverDir) before public assets are copied. If a publicAssets dir is inside one of them (for example dist/client with netlify or cloudflare-pages, which publish from dist/), it was deleted and the build still reported success.

prepare() now checks every existing publicAssets dir before deleting anything. If one is inside a dir that is about to be cleaned, the build fails with an error that names both paths, and nothing is deleted.

• Symlinks are resolved on both sides, so a symlink outside dist/ that points into it is also caught.
• Dirs that don't exist yet are skipped.
• prepare() takes a new optional generatedAssetDirs option for asset dirs that the build regenerates. The Vite plugin passes its own build.outDir here. Without this, a Vite app with build.outDir: "dist" on netlify or cloudflare-pages would fail on every build after the first.

🧪 Tests

• test/unit/prepare.test.ts: a nested source dir, a symlinked source dir, nothing deleted when the check fails, dirs that don't exist yet, and generated dirs.
• test/vite/rebuild.test.ts: builds a Vite app with build.outDir inside the output dir twice. It fails without the Vite plugin change.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

prepare checks public asset sources before cleaning selected output directories. It rejects sources that overlap those directories. Unit tests cover overlapping sources, external sources, and missing source directories.

Changes

Build preparation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Public asset cleanup guard src/build/prepare.ts, test/unit/prepare.test.ts	prepare collects the selected output directories and checks public asset sources before preparing them. It skips missing sources and non-directories, rethrows other filesystem errors, and rejects overlapping paths. Tests cover asset preservation on rejection, cleanup with an external source, and a missing source directory.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6292c

A build can succeed while omitting configured public assets. Check the symlink’s configured location before cleanup to prevent that loss.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6292c

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: src, test

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — src (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
• observed — test (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in src/build/prepare.ts: Adds path utilities for resolving directories, comparing relative paths, and identifying absolute paths.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/build/prepare.ts: Collects output, public, and server directories for cleanup, retaining the existing noPublicDir and static conditions.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/build/prepare.ts: Before cleanup, checks each public asset source: skips missing or non-directory sources, rethrows other stat errors, and resolves existing source and output paths (falling back to a resolved output path when it is missing). Throws if a source is equal to or inside any output directory; previously, output directories were prepared without this check.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/build/prepare.ts: Prepares each collected output directory; this replaces the earlier separate calls for the output, optional public, and optional server directories.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The change satisfies #4679. The updated prepare function validates each existing publicAssets directory before cleaning output directories. It resolves symlinks to their actual paths using `fsp.re…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within #4679. The production change prevents deletion of configured public-asset sources during output preparation and resolves symlinks for accurate overlap detection. The added unit…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title follows the Conventional Commits format and accurately describes the change.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the cleanup bug, the overlap check, and the related tests. It is relevant to the changeset.

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