logLevel not honored client-side

[bendytree]

Describe the bug

Looking for a way to silence [vite] ... logs client side in dev and found logLevel under Shared Options, but it doesn't work for client-side vite logs:

export default defineConfig({
  logLevel: 'silent'
});

Results in:

[vite] connecting...
[vite] connected.

Reproduction

https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-abxahfbz?file=vite.config.json

Steps to reproduce

Add logLevel: 'silent' to vite config & reload.

System Info

System:
    OS: macOS 15.4.1
    CPU: (16) arm64 Apple M4 Max
    Memory: 19.31 GB / 64.00 GB
    Shell: 5.9 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 22.11.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.11.0/bin/node
    npm: 10.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.11.0/bin/npm
    pnpm: 10.4.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.11.0/bin/pnpm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 136.0.7103.114
    Safari: 18.4
    Safari Technology Preview: 18.4
  npmPackages:
    @vitejs/plugin-vue: ^4.2.3 => 4.6.2 
    vite: ^4.3.9 => 4.5.14

Used Package Manager

npm

Logs

[vite] connecting...
[vite] connected.

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[bluwy]

It only works for the server-side. Is there a reason you want to apply them in the client too? For those logs you mentioned specifically, those are logged with console.debug which you can filter away from the devtools console.

[bendytree]

Just trying to keep the console clean and meaningful. Most libs provide a flag to disable noisy logs.