feat(vite): add vite:compile:before hook

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🔗 Linked issue

#4428

❓ Type of change

• 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation, readme, or JSdoc annotations)
• 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality like performance)
• ✨ New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• 🧹 Chore (updates to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries)
• ⚠️ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

📚 Description

Vite builder differs a lot from Rolldown/Rollup builders, the new hook is only for Vite builder and for build.

Once Nitro is closed, any asset written to the output public folder won't be added to the routes (404 when requesting assets generated at compiled hook)

We should add a custom entry for hooks like Nuxt docs, the config entry only mentons hookable and links to lifecycle that seems unrelated to Nitro hooks.

resolves #4428

📝 Checklist

• I have linked an issue or discussion.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.

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Changes

Vite build hook

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pre-compile hook contract and invocation src/types/hooks.ts, src/build/vite/prod.ts, docs/1.docs/55.modules.md	Adds the optional vite:before:compile hook, documents its Vite-only timing, and invokes it after prerendering and before building the Nitro server bundle.
Pre-compile hook build validation test/vite/before-compile-hook.test.ts, test/vite/before-compile-hook-fixture/*	Adds a Vite fixture and test that emits a public asset, verifies hook order, and checks the asset in the compiled server entry.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 536e8

The new Vite hook enables generated public assets to be included in builds, but its documentation misstates behavior for static builds. This can lead integrations to make incorrect lifecycle assumptions; update the documentation before merge.

🚥 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 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 …	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 implementation satisfies issue #4428 by adding a Vite build hook that runs after prerendering and before compilation and Nitro closure effects. The tests verify hook ordering and inclusion of gene…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The implementation, type declaration, documentation, test fixtures, and test coverage all support the linked issue and stated objectives. No unrelated changes are present.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the new Vite build hook, its purpose, linked issue #4428, implementation scope, and test coverage.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title follows the Conventional Commits format and identifies a Vite hook change. However, it names the hook as vite:compile:before while the changeset adds vite:before:compile.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

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 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Rebased onto main (no conflicts) and pushed. The hook placement still works after the nitro.options.static branch landed in prod.ts.

Added on top:

• A test (test/vite/before-compile-hook.test.ts) checking the hook runs before compiled and that a file written to output.publicDir from it still lands in the server bundle's public assets — which is the provide new hook to be triggered before closing nitro #4428 use case. It fails without the hook.
• A row in the hooks table in docs/1.docs/55.modules.md.

Two things for a maintainer to settle, left unchanged:

• Name order. Every other hook is <area>:<phase> (build:before, rollup:before, prerender:done), so vite:compile:before would read more consistently.
• It fires for static builds too, where no server bundle is compiled. Fine for the use case, but the name implies otherwise.

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In `@docs/1.docs/55.modules.md`:
- Line 137: Update the vite:before:compile lifecycle description near the hook
signature to cover both server and static Vite builds, replacing the server-only
“right before the server bundle is built” wording while preserving the timing
after public assets are copied and prerendering finishes.

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