Stop the Nuxt SDK pulling @thunderid/node into the client bundle

[ZiyamSanthosh]

Purpose

Fixes thunder-id/thunderid#4905 — a minimal Nuxt app using @thunderid/nuxt fails during browser module loading, and ThunderIDSignInButton does nothing.

Problem

Two client-capable runtime files carried value imports from @thunderid/node:

• runtime/plugins/thunderid.ts — VendorConstants (a universal plugin, so it runs in the client bundle)
• runtime/utils/stateKeys.ts — getVendorPrefix (imported by the plugin, ThunderIDRoot, and defineThunderIDMiddleware)

@thunderid/node takes named Fetch API exports from cross-fetch, and the module's optimizeDeps.include list did not cover it, so Vite served it raw and the browser reported:

browser-ponyfill.js does not provide an export named Headers

The page rendered, but hydration never completed. Consumers had to add @thunderid/node to vite.optimizeDeps.include themselves.

Solution

Take both values from the browser-safe @thunderid/browser layer, which re-exports the framework-agnostic JavaScript SDK APIs. Resolving the vendor via getVendorPrefix() also removes the inline vendor ?? VendorConstants.VENDOR_PREFIX fallback, keeping that default in one place per the vendor-naming rules in AGENTS.md.

No optimizeDeps.include entry was added — the cleaner outcome the issue asks for. With this change the Node SDK is not part of the browser graph at all, so there is nothing to pre-bundle. Type-only imports from @thunderid/node are erased at build time and are left alone; module.ts runs in Node at build time and is unaffected.

Verification

Tested against a standalone Nuxt 3.21.11 app with the optimizeDeps workaround removed, installing the SDK as pnpm pack tarballs so the packages land as real node_modules directories — a faithful stand-in for a registry install. (A file: directory link is not sufficient here: Vite treats symlinked packages as linked source rather than a pre-bundlable dependency, which bypasses the exact code path that was broken and reports a false pass.)

• No client-capable runtime file imports the Node SDK any more. On published 1.0.3 this printed two hits:

  $ grep -rn "@thunderid/node" node_modules/@thunderid/nuxt/dist/runtime | grep "\.js:" | grep -v "/server/"
  (empty)

• Vite's client optimized-deps manifest no longer lists @thunderid/node, and no cross-fetch/browser-ponyfill appears anywhere in the client dep cache:

  ["@thunderid/browser", "@thunderid/javascript", "@thunderid/vue", "base64url", "fast-sha256", "…devtools"]

• Dev server boots clean, no console error, sign-in flow manually confirmed end to end against a local ThunderID instance.
• pnpm --filter @thunderid/nuxt run test — 113/113 pass. The @thunderid/browser mock in thunderid-root.test.ts needed getVendorPrefix added, since it was previously satisfied by the unmocked Node import.
• Build clean; ESLint output identical to the pre-change baseline.

Related follow-up

The contributor guide's Debug with local SDK changes flow cannot catch this class of bug: thunderid/samples/apps/ has no Nuxt app, and the pnpm symlink + file: overrides it documents install as symlinks, which Vite handles differently from real node_modules dependencies. Worth a docs note or a Nuxt sample in that repo, as separate work.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved vendor prefix handling in the Nuxt integration.
  • Ensured consistent state key generation across environments.
  • Updated test coverage to validate default and custom vendor prefixes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Nuxt runtime vendor prefix resolution now uses getVendorPrefix from @thunderid/browser. State key generation uses the same browser-safe dependency. The Nuxt unit test mock now provides this helper.

Changes

Nuxt browser runtime

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Browser-safe vendor prefix resolution packages/nuxt/src/runtime/plugins/thunderid.ts, packages/nuxt/src/runtime/utils/stateKeys.ts, packages/nuxt/tests/unit/thunderid-root.test.ts	Runtime code now imports getVendorPrefix from @thunderid/browser. The plugin calls it with the configured vendor. The unit test mock returns the supplied vendor or "thunderid".

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 053bb

The PR removes the Node SDK from the browser bundle and addresses the reported Nuxt loading failure; the remaining test-mock alignment issue is non-blocking, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: janithjay, brionmario, senthalan

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes replace client-capable @thunderid/node value imports with @thunderid/browser imports and satisfy issue #4905.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to the required runtime imports and their test mock, with no unrelated code changes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: preventing the Nuxt SDK from including @thunderid/node in the client bundle.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the problem, solution, affected imports, verification steps, tests, and related issue, although it omits the formal checklist and security sections.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/nuxt/tests/unit/thunderid-root.test.ts`:
- Line 29: Update the getVendorPrefix mock in thunderid-root.test.ts to use
VendorConstants.VENDOR_PREFIX or delegate to the real getVendorPrefix
implementation instead of hardcoding "thunderid", preserving the existing
handling of an explicitly provided vendor.

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• packages/nuxt/src/runtime/plugins/thunderid.ts
• packages/nuxt/src/runtime/utils/stateKeys.ts
• packages/nuxt/tests/unit/thunderid-root.test.ts