fix(vite): serialize dev worker reloads

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🔗 Linked issue

Resolves #4536.

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📚 Description

Requests arriving during a Vite dev-worker reload currently use the previous entry. Waiting on a single in-flight promise fixes that case, but two full-reload messages can still start overlapping imports and allow an older import to overwrite a newer entry.

This change serializes runner.import() calls on a promise chain. fetch() waits until that chain is stable, so it also covers a reload queued while the request is already waiting. A focused unit suite covers:

• one in-flight reload;
• overlapping reloads;
• a reload queued while fetch() is pending;
• recovery after a failed reload.

Local verification: 178 unit tests, 4 Vite HMR integration tests, typecheck, targeted lint/format, and the full build pass.

#4473 changes the same reload() method for module-cache invalidation and may require a small rebase if it lands first.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Vite dev-worker reloads are serialized and coalesced. Requests wait for reloads with a 30-second timeout. Full-reload messages can target one Vite environment. Reload errors persist until recovery.

Changes

Vite reload coordination

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reload synchronization and request waiting src/runtime/internal/vite/dev-worker.mjs, test/unit/vite-dev-worker-reload.test.ts	Reload imports are serialized and coalesced. Requests wait for active reloads. Tests cover ordering and queued reloads.
Environment-specific reload routing src/runtime/internal/vite/dev-worker.mjs, test/unit/vite-dev-worker-reload.test.ts	Full-reload messages pass viteEnv. Reloads can target one environment or all environments.
Reload timeout and failure recovery src/runtime/internal/vite/dev-worker.mjs, test/unit/vite-dev-worker-reload.test.ts	Reload waits use a timeout helper. Tests cover timeout fallback, warnings, HTTP 500 errors, logging, and later recovery.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6a87e

The change serializes development-worker reloads, but an unknown targeted reload can still cause unnecessary reloads across all environments rather than none. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up on this bounded correctness issue.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the conventional commit format and clearly describes serialized Vite dev-worker reloads.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the Vite reload race, the fix, test coverage, and verification results.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes make fetch wait for reload completion and serialize imports, satisfying issue #4536.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The implementation and tests remain within the scope of fixing Vite dev-worker reload races described in issue #4536.

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