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fix(@angular/build): keep proxy entry order and support a string context - #34258
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…onfigurations http-proxy-middleware, which the Webpack-based development server uses, accepts a single path as `context`. The conversion of the array form skipped those entries, so they were dropped and nothing was proxied, without any message.
…iguration Glob keys were converted to regular expressions by adding the new key and deleting the old one, which moved every glob entry to the end of the object. Since Vite proxies a request with the first entry that matches it, a glob written before a broader plain key could never be used.
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This pull request updates the dev-server proxy configuration loading to support a single string context in the Webpack array form of the configuration file. It also ensures that converted glob entries maintain their original order, which is critical for Vite's proxying behavior. Corresponding unit tests have been added to verify these behaviors. Feedback on the changes points out a potential runtime TypeError if normalizedProxy is null or undefined when calling Object.entries(), and suggests adding a defensive check.
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Issue Number: #34257
normalizeProxyConfigurationloses two things when it turns the proxy file into the object Vite expects:^keys. With{"/api/auth/**": ..., "/api/": ...},/api/auth/logingoes to the/api/target.contextis a single string (context: '/api') is skipped, so nothing is proxied for it. The Webpack-based dev server accepts it.What is the new behavior?
contextis handled like a one-element array.Each fix is in its own commit with a test in
proxy-config_spec.ts. I checked that both tests fail without the fixes: the order test getsOTHER_API_RETURN, and the stringcontexttest getsindex.html.The third point of #34257 (globs and query strings) isn't part of this PR. For a trailing
/**, picomatch puts a$inside the generated regex, so it takes more than appending an optional query string, and it changes which requests get proxied.Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
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A config that relied on globs being tried last, such as a catch-all
/**written before more specific plain keys, will now match in the order it's written. That's also how the Webpack-based dev server handles it.