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Written by an AI agent (OpenCode) on behalf of @atinux, who directed the design.

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  • Shall we keep cloudflare as default option if we run --tunnel as prompting could be seen as a breaking change for user already using this option?

📚 Description

OpenTunnel gives each machine a stable hostname, and TLS ends on the developer's machine, so the relay can't read the traffic. This PR adds it as a second --tunnel provider, next to the Cloudflare quick tunnel:

nuxt dev --tunnel=opentunnel   # the same URL on each run, per project
nuxt dev --tunnel=cloudflare   # a new trycloudflare.com URL on each run (unchanged)
nuxt dev --tunnel              # uses the saved choice, or asks once

The CLI stays lean. @opentunnel/client (with its effect peer) is not a dependency of @nuxt/cli. It is resolved from the project, and when it's missing, nuxt dev offers to install it as a dev dependency with the project's package manager, through the same runInstall as nuxt module add. Without a terminal, it prints the install command and starts without a tunnel. @nuxt/cli's dist grows by about 19 kB.

Other points:

  • Same URL on each run: the route name comes from a random seed in ~/.nuxtrc (tools.opentunnel.seed) and the project path. The chosen provider is saved as tools.tunnel.provider.
  • Hard restarts: the new fork can't attach the route until the outgoing process lets go of it, which it only does once the fork is serving. During a handover, the fork returns the URL at once and attaches in the background.
  • --https: OpenTunnel forwards plain TCP, so --tunnel=opentunnel uses Cloudflare instead, with a warning.
  • Flag parsing: --tunnel is now a string flag. Node's parseArgs would read --tunnel --port 3000 as tunnel="--port", so a bare --tunnel is rewritten to --tunnel= before citty parses it.
  • dev/tunnel.ts moved to dev/tunnel/cloudflared.ts, unchanged apart from the function name.

Tested: unit tests for the flag, the prompt, the route name, the install flow and the providers. End to end, in a fresh npm project: the prompt installed both packages, a real tunnel served the page, and a second run reused the same URL. Hard restarts (from a .env change) and the Vite HMR WebSocket also worked through the tunnel.

Known limits:

  • @opentunnel/client@0.4.0 was published on October 8. A package manager with a release-age policy (pnpm 11's default, or npm's min-release-age) will refuse it until it's old enough. The CLI shows the package manager's error and starts without a tunnel.
  • The repo's minimumReleaseAgeExclude lists @opentunnel/client@0.4.0 and @opentunnel/protocol@0.4.0 for the same reason.

`--tunnel` now takes a provider: `cloudflare` (the existing quick tunnel)
or `opentunnel`, which gives each project the same end-to-end encrypted
URL on every run. A bare `--tunnel` asks once and saves the choice in
`~/.nuxtrc`.

The OpenTunnel SDK is not a dependency of the CLI: it is resolved from
the project and, when missing, installed there as a dev dependency with
the project's package manager after a prompt.
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CLI benchmark

@nuxt/cli v4.0.0 (baseline) vs v4.0.1 (this PR)

Metric baseline v4.0.0 head v4.0.1 Delta
nuxt --version wall time (median) 64 ms 65 ms +1.0%
nuxt --help wall time (median) 140 ms 140 ms -0.2%
nuxt dev --help wall time (median) 104 ms 104 ms -0.3%
nuxt --version modules loaded 35 35 0.0%
nuxt --version built-ins loaded 27 27 0.0%
nuxt --help modules loaded 135 135 0.0%
nuxt --help built-ins loaded 87 87 0.0%
nuxt dev --help modules loaded 64 64 0.0%
nuxt dev --help built-ins loaded 87 87 0.0%
Installed node_modules 2.46 MB 2.48 MB +0.8%
Published tarball (packed) 241.5 kB 247.9 kB +2.6%
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@nuxt/cli v4.0.0 (baseline) vs v4.0.1 (head)

Setting Value
Baseline ref:f2e6cdecd0b6139a3b11c1d81ca234eac8742757 (v4.0.0)
Head local packages/nuxt-cli at 607fce6 (v4.0.1)
Node v24.21.0
OS Linux 6.17.0 (kernel 6.17.0-1022-azure)
CPU AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor x 4
Memory 15.6 GB
Load average at start 1.00, 0.30, 0.10
Run started 2026-10-09T18:51:11.509Z

Cold CLI startup

Median of 15 interleaved runs per command, one warmup discarded.

Command baseline v4.0.0 median head v4.0.1 median Delta baseline v4.0.0 min / p95 head v4.0.1 min / p95
nuxt --version 64 ms 65 ms +1.0% 62 ms / 67 ms 61 ms / 68 ms
nuxt --version (first output byte) 60 ms 61 ms +0.9% 58 ms / 63 ms 58 ms / 64 ms
nuxt --help 140 ms 140 ms -0.2% 134 ms / 142 ms 134 ms / 147 ms
nuxt --help (first output byte) 135 ms 135 ms -0.1% 129 ms / 137 ms 129 ms / 142 ms
nuxt dev --help 104 ms 104 ms -0.3% 100 ms / 108 ms 101 ms / 107 ms
nuxt dev --help (first output byte) 99 ms 99 ms +0.4% 95 ms / 104 ms 96 ms / 102 ms
nuxt <unknown-command> (no-op) 148 ms 148 ms +0.3% 145 ms / 151 ms 146 ms / 154 ms
nuxt <unknown-command> (no-op) (first output byte) 143 ms 143 ms +0.1% 140 ms / 145 ms 140 ms / 149 ms

Module load cost

Counted with a module.registerHooks load hook, compile cache disabled. Counts every JS module actually evaluated on that code path (native addons excluded). Built-ins loaded after bootstrap are counted separately, including the internal modules they load.

Command baseline v4.0.0 modules head v4.0.1 modules Delta baseline v4.0.0 source bytes head v4.0.1 source bytes Delta baseline v4.0.0 built-ins head v4.0.1 built-ins Delta
nuxt --version 35 35 0.0% 298.0 kB 299.4 kB +0.5% 27 27 0.0%
nuxt --help 135 135 0.0% 847.3 kB 849.3 kB +0.2% 87 87 0.0%
nuxt dev --help 64 64 0.0% 455.5 kB 457.5 kB +0.4% 87 87 0.0%

Install footprint and published tarball

Each version installed on its own into an empty project with nothing but @nuxt/cli as a dependency, so the tree is exactly the CLI and its transitive dependencies. npm cache is warm and the registry is only consulted for metadata, so install wall time is indicative, not a network benchmark.

Metric baseline v4.0.0 head v4.0.1 Delta
Direct dependencies of @nuxt/cli 23 23 0.0%
Packages in the installed tree (unique name@version) 39 39 0.0%
Unique package names 39 39 0.0%
Package directories on disk (cross-check) 32 32 0.0%
Installed node_modules on disk 2.46 MB 2.48 MB +0.8%
Installed files 436 441 +1.1%
Install wall time (warm npm cache, median of 3) 1.28 s 1.28 s -0.1%
Published tarball (packed) 241.5 kB 247.9 kB +2.6%
Published tarball (unpacked) 783.7 kB 805.1 kB +2.7%
Files in tarball 101 106 +5.0%

Interleaved runs on a shared runner: trust the deltas, not the absolute timings. The dev, restart and build suites run locally via pnpm bench:cli.

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The dev command now accepts Cloudflare or OpenTunnel as tunnel providers and can prompt for a selection. It saves provider preferences and OpenTunnel route seeds in .nuxtrc. OpenTunnel support includes project-local SDK discovery and installation, tunnel provisioning, connection management, and handover behavior. The listener passes provider configuration to tunnel startup. OpenTunnel requests use Cloudflare when the dev server uses HTTPS.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes


Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ccc48

Using --https --tunnel=opentunnel in a non-interactive project without the OpenTunnel SDK starts no tunnel instead of falling back to Cloudflare. This is a narrow edge case with a safe fallback, and the fix is small.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding OpenTunnel as a provider for the dev --tunnel option.
Description check Passed The description directly explains the OpenTunnel provider, provider selection, installation flow, stable URLs, HTTPS fallback, flag parsing, and testing.
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 80.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 35 functions across 20 files.
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Merging this PR will not alter performance

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🟡 Minor · Pass the bound host to OpenTunnel. · opentunnel.ts:60-65

packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/opentunnel.ts:60-65
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Pass the bound host to OpenTunnel.

When ListenOptions.hostname is an explicit non-loopback address, the listener binds to that address, but startOpenTunnel maps the route to localhost:${port}. The tunnel URL can therefore be advertised while forwarding to the wrong interface.

Pass the effective hostname through the listener and dispatcher. Preserve localhost for wildcard binds. The same mapping is used for normal connections and handovers.

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diff --git a/packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/listen.ts b/packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/listen.ts
@@
-      tunnel = await startTunnel(options.tunnel, { protocol, port: address.port, handover: options.handover })
+      tunnel = await startTunnel(options.tunnel, {
+        protocol,
+        port: address.port,
+        hostname: anyHost ? 'localhost' : hostname,
+        handover: options.handover,
+      })
diff --git a/packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/index.ts b/packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/index.ts
@@
 export interface TunnelTarget {
   protocol: 'http' | 'https'
   port: number
+  hostname?: string
   /** The server is taking over from a process that still serves the port. */
   handover?: boolean
 }
@@
-      return startOpenTunnel(options.route, target.port, { handover: target.handover, rootDir: options.rootDir })
+      return startOpenTunnel(options.route, target.port, {
+        hostname: target.hostname,
+        handover: target.handover,
+        rootDir: options.rootDir,
+      })
diff --git a/packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/opentunnel.ts b/packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/opentunnel.ts
@@
 export interface OpenTunnelOptions {
   /** The project the SDK is installed in. */
   rootDir: string
+  /** The local hostname where the dev server accepts connections. */
+  hostname?: string
@@
- * Expose `localhost:<port>` as `https://<route>.<hostname>` through the user's
+ * Expose the local `<hostname>:<port>` as `https://<route>.<hostname>` through the user's
@@
-  const routes = { [route]: `localhost:${port}` }
+  const routes = { [route]: `${options.hostname || 'localhost'}:${port}` }
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Pass the effective listener hostname through the listen and tunnel-dispatch flow
into startOpenTunnel, and use it when building the OpenTunnel route target.
Preserve localhost for wildcard binds and apply the same hostname mapping to
normal connections and handovers.

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- Around line 60-65: Pass the effective listener hostname through the listen and
tunnel-dispatch flow into startOpenTunnel, and use it when building the
OpenTunnel route target. Preserve localhost for wildcard binds and apply the
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Both providers forwarded to `localhost:<port>`, which does not reach a
server bound to one non-loopback address (`--host 192.168.1.5`), nor one
bound to `::1` when `localhost` resolves to 127.0.0.1. `localhost` is
kept for servers on every interface.

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- Line 47: Update the tunnel selection flow around `resolveTunnelOptions` so
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const { startCloudflaredTunnel } = await import('./cloudflared')
return startCloudflaredTunnel(`${target.protocol}://${local}`, target.protocol === 'https')

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
# Inspect command ordering without running repository code.
rg -n -C 8 'resolveTunnelOptions\(|ensureOpenTunnelSDK\(|--https|https:' \
  packages/nuxt-cli/src/commands/dev.ts \
  packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/resolve.ts

Repository: nuxt/cli

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rg -n -C 12 -F -- 'startTunnel(' packages/nuxt-cli/src
printf '\n--- tunnel option consumers ---\n'
rg -n -C 10 -E 'listenOverrides\.tunnel|\.tunnel\b' packages/nuxt-cli/src/commands packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev | head -240
printf '\n--- relevant tunnel sources ---\n'
sed -n '1,180p' packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/index.ts
sed -n '1,130p' packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/resolve.ts

Repository: nuxt/cli

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rg -n -C 18 -F -- 'export async function ensureOpenTunnelSDK' packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel
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Check the HTTPS fallback before requiring the OpenTunnel SDK.

resolveTunnelOptions runs before the dev server starts. In a non-interactive project without the OpenTunnel SDK, preparation returns false, so the resolver returns undefined. The listener then skips startTunnel, and the HTTPS fallback to Cloudflare cannot run.

Select Cloudflare for --https --tunnel=opentunnel before preparing the OpenTunnel SDK.

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Review comment at @packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/tunnel/index.ts at line 47:
Update the tunnel selection flow around `resolveTunnelOptions` so `--https
--tunnel=opentunnel` chooses the Cloudflare fallback before requiring or
preparing the OpenTunnel SDK. Ensure the resolver returns options that allow the
listener to start the Cloudflare tunnel instead of returning `undefined` when
the SDK is unavailable.

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