Middleware intermittently not working on iOS/ARM

[ZeldOcarina]

What version of astro are you using?

latest

Are you using an SSR adapter? If so, which one?

No

What package manager are you using?

npm

What operating system are you using?

Mac

What browser are you using?

Chrome

Describe the Bug

I have a tried a clean install of Astro with npm create astro@latest but I just cannot get my middleware.ts to run.

I need to pass to components some context data and perform some global transformations on my response data but cannot do that.

What's the expected result?

Middleware running correctly. Not flagging willing to submit a pull request as I would not know where to start from.

Link to Minimal Reproducible Example

https://github.com/ZeldOcarina/astro-middleware-bug

Participation

• [ ] I am willing to submit a pull request for this issue.

[ematipico]

I just checked out your repro and I could see the log

If your issue is more specific, please make sure to create a repro for that.

[ZeldOcarina]

Well I don't see it.. :( I am using npm, may that be a factor?

[ZeldOcarina]

@ematipico I think you closed this a little too hastily.. :(

[ematipico]

Even with npm, I can see the log. It's essential to be able to replicate the issue. And I am using a mac like you.

[natemoo-re]

Here's a StackBlitz repro, which definitely seems to be working.

@ZeldOcarina could you run npx astro info and node --version and share the output?

[ZeldOcarina]

Of course!!

mattiarasulo@Host-006 astro-test % npx astro info

Astro version            v2.10.12
Package manager          npm
Platform                 darwin
Architecture             arm64
Adapter                  Couldn't determine.
Integrations             None or couldn't determine.

node --version
v18.15.0

[lilnasy]

Couldn't reproduce on windows or linux.

[ematipico]

@ZeldOcarina it's possible that your terminal doesn't log for some reason. Why don't you try to use it by doing writing something into context.locals, or something else.

[ZeldOcarina]

Hi! All logs on standard routes etc. work properly. It's only the middleware that is not running at all, it's so weird.. May it be the M1 architecture?

[lilnasy]

Did you check if the middleware gets executed?

[ZeldOcarina]

I did by hardcoding some locals and no locals are being passed down to the components etc..

[lilnasy]

Could you upload the dist folder somewhere, maybe in a branch.

That would at least rule out an astro bug from something about your environment.

[ZeldOcarina]

Of course! I've added the dist folder under the same branch! Builded the app and removed dist from .gitignore. Thanks a lot for your help!

[lilnasy]

Ah, it's a static build. /dist contains only html, css, and js.

It maybe worth adding an adapter (npm run astro add node) to see if you get the issue in the final build (node dist/server/entry.mjs) as well.

[ZeldOcarina]

Ok done! Interesting the middleware is called _empty-middleware.mjs for some reason and it's actually empty! https://github.com/ZeldOcarina/astro-middleware-bug/blob/main/dist/server/_empty-middleware.mjs

[lilnasy]

Ok, I see what you see now — not "Request received!".

Building again myself runs the middleware and logs to the console.

Not sure what the issue is. Best guess: you need to reinstall astro, or node. Run npm and other commands in a container if that doesn't work.

[ZeldOcarina]

That's super weird.. I even tried with Bun and yarn..

[ZeldOcarina]

I can confirm building in a Codespace container is working. I think still this should be investigated as it's a very weird behavior..

[lilnasy]

It's hard to investigate because as far as I can tell, the cause is is somewhere on your system.

[ZeldOcarina]

I will try to open a remote M1 from a service I know and see if I can reproduce there.. it may be something that has to do with the ARM architecture..

[ematipico]

I think the best course of action is creating a thread on discord, in the support channel, and chat with people there.

This seems to be an issue specific to someone machine/environment and unfortunately it's very hard to debug unless you do it yourself from the source code.

I have a M2 and I can't see this issue. Weird.

[ZeldOcarina]

Ha I got it! Bug happens only if I clone the repo on my external SSD, won't happen on my main drive. Do you have an external disk you can try it on @ematipico?

[ematipico]

I don't think there's much we can do. This is something related to your machine and environment, I can't look for an external hard drive 😅

[natemoo-re]

Wow that is very strange! I have no idea what could be causing this problem when running on an external SSD. I agree that there's probably not much we can do, since it seems so environment specific... I tried searching through Vite, Rollup, Node issues but can't seem to find anything similar to this either.

[lilnasy]

There is this one issue: https://github.com/withastro/astro/issues/8164#issuecomment-1686046234.

[ZeldOcarina]

Yeah so far only pnpm has always refused to work on the external SSD but I guess next time I will need to upgrade my Mac for that super expensive Apple storage instead of hacking together an NVME enclosure.. Thanks for your time, closing this for now!

[WinnieS0728]

same issue here

using mac mini m2 macOS 13.5.2（22G91）

node version v18.16.0 npm version 9.5.1 bun version 1.0.2

package.json :

  "dependencies": {
    "@astrojs/node": "^6.0.0",
    "astro": "^3.1.1"
  }

astro.config :

import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';

import node from "@astrojs/node";

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({});

also tried node adapter

import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';

import node from "@astrojs/node";

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
  output: "server",
  adapter: node({
    mode: "standalone"
  })
});

and the result here (all test get same result)

i clone your astro-middleware-bug repo and get the same issue.

tried npm and bun both not working

realy wierd.

[ematipico]

It really is. All the similar issues that I've seen so far are around project saved in file system that is different from the one where the OS is saved.

[WinnieS0728]

thanks for replying.

not working in my macbook pro M1. 😢

both my device doesn't have external drives, only the default built-in SSD.

so in my situation I don't know how to fix it.

maybe it's my personal setting error.

I will post my install detail tomorrow, or borrow a windows OS laptop and try again.

[ZeldOcarina]

Could it be something related to the file system formatting? Maybe the error is in APFS or something like that?

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Hello @ZeldOcarina. Please provide a minimal reproduction using a GitHub repository or StackBlitz. Issues marked with needs repro will be closed if they have no activity within 3 days.

[ZeldOcarina]

@lilnasy I think you do have a reproduction repo, let's not be too picky on that.. issue should not be closed..

[lilnasy]

So far I thought the linked repo would reproduce the issue on an external disk. But if someone is encountering the bug without it, there's probably another factor to consider.

Either way, I marked it as need repro because it's not an actionable issue, it's just going to sit here.

[ZeldOcarina]

Ok thanks! :)

[WinnieS0728]

here is my install detail

• type npm create astro@latest in folder terminal, and choose some setting.

i get this dependencies in package.json

  "dependencies": {
    "astro": "^3.1.1"
  }

• add middleware.ts inside src folder

• type tree -I node_modules and now my project look like this.

• inside middleware.ts export a onRequest function

import { defineMiddleware } from "astro:middleware";

export const onRequest = defineMiddleware((context,next)=>{
    console.log('middleware');

    return next()
}) 

• inside pages > index.astro add console.log('page') in frontmatter

• run npm run dev and go to http://localhost:4321/

now i got this issue

no 'middleware' but only 'page' in terminal log

seems like my onRequest didn't work 🫠.

did i miss any step or do anything wrong ??

I publish this folder to a github repo.

github repo link

can anyone test if this is my personal issue.

thanks for reading this long post.

glad to get any advice.

[lilnasy]

@WinnieS0728 Pretty sure it's something about your (and ZeldOcarina's) system.

[WinnieS0728]

well i just create a new folder and do

• type git clone https://github.com/WinnieS0728/middleware-demo

• cd ./middleware-demo

• npm i

• npm start

still got same issue.

but when i do these same step inside my github folder

and look what i got

now thing become SUPER WIERD 🤣

[lilnasy]

@WinnieS0728 Your investigation might be really helpful!

You have traditional chinese characters in the path in the first case where you encounter the issue.

Could you post a screenshot where you run the pwd command in both cases?

And see if adding a chinese character to the GitHub directory name breaks it as well.

[WinnieS0728]

chinese characters new folder

pwd /Users/winnie.chang/Desktop/未命名檔案夾

result

english characters new folder

pwd /Users/winnie.chang/Desktop/new folder

result

chinese characters new folder in github folder

pwd /Users/winnie.chang/Documents/GitHub/未命名檔案夾

result

english characters new folder in github folder

pwd /Users/winnie.chang/Documents/GitHub/new folder in github

result

direct inside github folder

pwd /Users/winnie.chang/Documents/GitHub

result

seems like only work direct inside github folder

[lilnasy]

english characters new folder in github folder pwd /Users/winnie.chang/Documents/GitHub/new folder in github

Could you remove spaces from this folder. Maybe /Users/winnie.chang/Documents/GitHub/new/.

[WinnieS0728]

new folder without space in github folder

pwd /Users/winnie.chang/Documents/GitHub/new

result

new folder without space

pwd /Users/winnie.chang/Desktop/newFolder

result

i think you just resolve the issue 🥳.

[lilnasy]

@ZeldOcarina Is there a space in the full path in your project?

[lilnasy]

I can reproduce the issue on linux. middleware-demo -> "middleware demo" (with space)

[WinnieS0728]

so i think maybe is not personal issue ?

I don't know about detail, but I'm guessing is something like astro compiler detect folder name when build running env can't read space or chinese ?

[lilnasy]

@WinnieS0728 The fix in #8614 should work for chinese characters as well.

[WinnieS0728]

how about the space.

in my case i typed space almost 80% of my project if name have more than 1 words.

the chinese characters '未命名檔案夾' is means 'unnamed folder', and it's the default name when create a new folder in my mac.

i almost never use chinese characters in my projects.

[lilnasy]

Both spaces and non-english characters are fixed.

[WinnieS0728]

Thank you so so so much.

I search this issue almost a day around google, youtube and even Bing AI.

no one have same issue 🫠.

thanks for your help.

[lilnasy]

Thank you, you're the one who figured what the problem even is! Fixing is the easy part.

[ZeldOcarina]

whoo whoo thanks a bunch @lilnasy @WinnieS0728 ! Yes there was some blank spaces in my OS. Sorry if the issue name was misleading, we made it!