fix(start-static-server-functions): fall back to the server function on a cache miss - #8221
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…on a cache miss The client half of `staticFunctionMiddleware` runs for every call in a production browser build and fetched the derived cache URL with no checks: `fetch(url).then((r) => r.json())`. A cache file only exists for calls the prerender pass actually executed, so with prerendering disabled, or for a route the crawler never reached, the request is answered by the application's catch-all route with the HTML shell. `r.json()` then rejected with "Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON" and took the loader or navigation down with it, instead of falling through to the live server function. Treat an unreadable cache response as a miss. A failed request, a non-ok status, a body that is not JSON, and a body that does not parse all return undefined, which the middleware already handles by calling `ctx.next()`. The content type has to be checked as well as the status, because the HTML shell is served with a 200 in some setups. Also wire up `staticClientCache`, whose lookup was immediately overwritten by the fetch result and so never served anything, and enable the package's unit test script now that it has tests. This does not make prerendering populate the cache for SPA mode, the second half of the report. The build cannot know which server functions a client only route will call, so a live call is the correct outcome there.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe static server-function middleware now treats missing or invalid prerendered responses as cache misses, falls back to the server function, and reuses valid client-cached results. Tests, documentation, a changeset, and the unit-test script were updated. ChangesStatic cache fallback
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Cache misses now fall back safely to the live server function, but malformed serialized cache values can still prevent that fallback, and cached context remains reusable for the page lifetime without identity or deployment binding. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to validate cache payloads and confirm that cached results are safe across identity changes. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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In `@packages/start-static-server-functions/src/staticFunctionMiddleware.ts`:
- Around line 155-157: Validate the value returned by fromJSON in the static
function middleware before treating it as a cache hit: require an object with
own result and context fields, otherwise continue through the cache-miss path
and invoke ctx.next(). Add a regression test covering a valid Seroval payload
that decodes to a non-object value.
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| result = fromJSON(await response.json(), { | ||
| plugins: getDefaultSerovalPlugins(), | ||
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Validate the decoded cache payload before using it as a cache hit.
A cache file can contain valid Seroval JSON for a value other than StaticCachedResult, such as a serialized string. fromJSON then succeeds, but the middleware later skips ctx.next() and returns undefined for response.result. Treat decoded values without own result and context fields as cache misses. Add a regression test with a valid Seroval payload that decodes to a non-object value.
Proposed fix
try {
result = fromJSON(await response.json(), {
plugins: getDefaultSerovalPlugins(),
})
} catch {
// The file exists but is not a payload this build can read.
return undefined
}
+
+ if (
+ result === null ||
+ typeof result !== 'object' ||
+ !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(result, 'result') ||
+ !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(result, 'context')
+ ) {
+ return undefined
+ }
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| result = fromJSON(await response.json(), { | |
| plugins: getDefaultSerovalPlugins(), | |
| }) | |
| try { | |
| result = fromJSON(await response.json(), { | |
| plugins: getDefaultSerovalPlugins(), | |
| }) | |
| } catch { | |
| // The file exists but is not a payload this build can read. | |
| return undefined | |
| } | |
| if ( | |
| result === null || | |
| typeof result !== 'object' || | |
| !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(result, 'result') || | |
| !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(result, 'context') | |
| ) { | |
| return undefined | |
| } | |
| staticClientCache?.set(url, result) |
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In `@packages/start-static-server-functions/src/staticFunctionMiddleware.ts`
around lines 155 - 157, Validate the value returned by fromJSON in the static
function middleware before treating it as a cache hit: require an object with
own result and context fields, otherwise continue through the cache-miss path
and invoke ctx.next(). Add a regression test covering a valid Seroval payload
that decodes to a non-object value.
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🎯 Changes
Fixes #7876. Also fixes the failure reported in #7630.
The client half of
staticFunctionMiddlewareruns for every call in a production browser build, and fetched the derived cache URL with no checks at all:A cache file is only written for calls the prerender pass actually executed, by the
.server()half whenTSS_CLIENT_OUTPUT_DIRis set. So withprerenderdisabled, or for a route the crawler never reached, nothing exists at/__tsr/staticServerFnCache/<hash>.json. The request is answered by the application's catch-all route, which serves the HTML shell, andr.json()rejects with:That rejection propagates out of the middleware and takes the loader or navigation down with it, rather than falling through to the live server function. It is the same error reported in #7630.
The fix
Treat an unreadable cache response as a miss. A failed request, a non-ok status, a body that is not JSON, and a body that does not parse all return
undefined, which the middleware already handles:The content type has to be checked as well as the status, because the HTML shell is served with a 200 in some setups, so the status alone cannot distinguish a hit from the fallback document.
I also wired up
staticClientCache. Its lookup was immediately overwritten by the fetch result on the next line, so it never served anything and every repeat call refetched.Not fixed: the SPA half of the report
The second half of #7876 asks that enabling
spapopulate the cache. I did not implement that, and I do not think it can work in general: the SPA shell prerender only runs the root route's loaders, and the build cannot know which server functions a client-only route will call at runtime. With this change that case degrades to a live server function call, which is the correct outcome, so the crash is gone even though the caching is not extended. Happy to be corrected if you had a specific mechanism in mind.Tests
This package had no tests and its
test:unitscript was theexit 0; vitestplaceholder, so I enabled it. Itsvite.config.tsalready configured vitest with jsdom, andvitestandjsdomwere already devDependencies. Say the word if you would rather keep the script disabled and I will revert that line.Five of the six new tests fail on
main:<!DOCTYPESyntaxErrorThe sixth asserts that a non-production build never requests the cache, which passes both before and after.
One test-harness note worth flagging:
getDefaultSerovalPluginsreads the Start options throughcreateIsomorphicFn, and uncompiled that chain resolves to its server implementation, which wants a Start context in AsyncLocalStorage that a browser never has. The test stubs that one function out rather than faking a server context, since the adapter list is irrelevant to the cache lookup being tested.✅ Checklist
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pnpm nx run @tanstack/start-static-server-functions:test:unitpasses, 6 tests, no type errorspnpm nx run @tanstack/start-static-server-functions:test:typespassespnpm nx run @tanstack/start-static-server-functions:test:eslintpassespnpm nx run @tanstack/start-static-server-functions:test:buildpassesnode scripts/verify-links.tspasses for the docs change🚀 Release Impact
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