Page reloading when navigating, having a global middleware with getCurrentUser and having node_modules/.cache/vite cleared

[dword-design]

Reproduction

https://github.com/dword-design/demo-vuefire-page-reloads-cache

Steps to reproduce the bug

When using getCurrentUser in a middleware and clearing the cache via nuxi cleanup, page navigation always reloads the page instead of staying client-side when running nuxt dev. Very weird. Actually it only happens when deleting the node_modules/.cache/vite dir.

When rerunning nuxt dev it's working as expected.

Additional observation: Is only the case for a global middleware. When setting one via definePageMeta it's working as expected.

1. rm -rf node_modules/.cache/vite && pnpm dev
2. Click on Login

Expected behavior

The page is switched without reloading the page.

Actual behavior

The page is reloaded.

Additional information

Probably related to #1625.

[posva]

I think this is just vite rebounding (optimizing) deps and reloading the page