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User feedback on 4.0.0: a simple project with a slider and a math calculation, fine with the previous version, now freezes the entire page.

Cause

setupReactivity (host side, runtime/plugins/view/client.ts) refreshed the DevTools UI through watch([payload, colorMode, metrics, timeline], …, { deep: true }). A deep watch re-traverses its whole source synchronously on every mutation, so each useState write costs O(payload size). The debounce only applied to the callback, not to the traversal. This runs on the inspected page whether the panel is open or not.

Fix

Same sources, same host:update:reactivity hook, but tracked by an effect whose scheduler is debounced (100 ms trailing, as before). A mutation only schedules the refresh; the traversal (which re-collects dependencies, so new nested values are tracked) runs once when changes settle. traverse covers the same shapes as Vue's deep watch: refs, arrays, Maps, Sets and plain objects.

Measurements

Headless Chromium. A slider bound to useState drives a 20k-iteration calculation and 100 bars. Each run is 600 input events, one per animation frame (an ideal run is ~10 s). The payload also holds a 20k-item useState array, standing in for fetched data.

DevTools	Total	p95 frame	Long tasks
off	10.0 s	19–20 ms	0–1
main, panel closed	68–76 s	160–197 ms	600
main, panel open	57–58 s	104–110 ms	600
main, vueDevTools: false	60 s	115 ms	600
main, componentInspector: false	52 s	98 ms	600
this PR, panel closed	10.0 s	22 ms	1 (~105 ms, the single settle)
this PR, panel open	10.0 s	18 ms	1 (~67 ms)

Without the large payload nothing froze on main either, so the cost scales with payload size. Post-GC heap was flat across repeated drags in every configuration, so I found no leak in the page. With the Vue DevTools panel open the heap grows ~6 MB and then plateaus, which looks like a bounded buffer.

Also checked end to end: the Payload tab updates when the slider changes (50 → 777), and a mutation nested inside the large state still triggers host:update:reactivity.

pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck and pnpm test:unit pass.

Note for merging: this drops the now-unused watch import. #1150 adds watch calls to the same file, so whichever of the two lands second needs watch back in the import.

Repro app

<script setup lang="ts">
const value = useState('value', () => 50)
useState('data', () => Array.from({ length: 20_000 }, (_, i) => ({ id: i, name: `item ${i}`, tags: ['a', 'b'], meta: { score: i % 7 } })))
const result = computed(() => {
  let sum = 0
  for (let i = 0; i < 20_000; i++)
    sum += Math.sin(value.value * i) * Math.cos(i)
  return sum
})
const bars = computed(() => Array.from({ length: 100 }, (_, i) => Math.abs(Math.sin((value.value + i) / 10)) * 100))
</script>

<template>
  <input id="slider" v-model.number="value" type="range" min="0" max="1000">
  <p>{{ value }} {{ result.toFixed(4) }}</p>
  <div style="display: flex; align-items: flex-end; height: 100px; gap: 1px">
    <div v-for="(h, i) in bars" :key="i" :style="{ height: `${h}px`, width: '6px', background: '#00dc82' }" />
  </div>
</template>

The same deep watch already existed in v3.4.4, so this fixes a real freeze but may not be the whole v3 → v4 difference the reporters saw; their video and project would help confirm.

Not verified in Firefox (the reporters use Floorp); the Playwright Firefox build failed to install here.

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Walkthrough

The client plugin replaces its deep watcher with a reactive effect that traverses the Nuxt payload, colour mode, loading metric and timeline metrics. The new traverse helper handles refs, arrays, Maps, Sets and plain objects. It skips previously visited objects and values marked __v_skip. The scheduler debounces effect reruns and the host:update:reactivity hook by 100 ms with trailing execution.

Priority: Normal

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

Merge Risk: Low · up to 1f5c0

Most changes remain tracked, but enumerable symbol-keyed mutations can leave the Devtools view stale; add symbol-aware traversal before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: the fix stops the client from re-traversing the payload on every state change. The raw summary confirms that setupReactivity now uses a debounced effect instead of a d…
Description check		The description is directly related to the changeset. It explains the cause of the freeze in setupReactivity, which used a deep watch over payload, colorMode, metrics and timeline. It describes the fi…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: the fix stops the client from re-traversing the payload on every state change. The raw summary confirms that setupReactivity now uses a debounced effect instead of a deep watch. The title is specific and matches the changeset. It uses the conventional commit prefix fix(client), which fits a bug fix in the client code.

Full details: Description check

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The description is directly related to the changeset. It explains the cause of the freeze in setupReactivity, which used a deep watch over payload, colorMode, metrics and timeline. It describes the fix, which replaces the deep watch with a debounced effect and keeps the host:update:reactivity hook. It also gives benchmark results, a repro app, a merge note about the watch import, and the test status.

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Track enumerable symbol-keyed properties.

If a reactive payload object has an existing symbol-keyed property, this loop does not read its value. A change to that property alone therefore does not schedule host:update:reactivity, and the client revision remains stale. Vue's previous deep watch reads enumerable symbol-keyed properties. Add the same traversal here. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @packages/devtools/src/runtime/plugins/view/client.ts around
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Update the traverse function’s property walk to also read and recursively
traverse values of enumerable symbol-keyed properties, using the existing seen
tracking so changes to those properties schedule host:update:reactivity.

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