fix: respect baseURL for single catch-all routes

[danielroe]

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📚 Description

context: nuxt/fonts#898 (see the tests marked it.fails in particular)

with baseURL: '/foo/' and a single catch-all route (which is the shape a framework's SSR renderer ends up with), the app responds to / but 404s /foo/:

# one `routes/[...].ts` + `baseURL: '/foo/'`
curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' localhost:3000/      # 200
curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' localhost:3000/foo/  # 404

I think this is a regression from #3716 - the single-wildcard fast path in Router.compileToString emits p.slice(1) with no prefix check, so it ignores _baseURL for both the match and params._. comparing it against what rou3 compiles for /foo/** (which you get as soon as a second route exists and the fast path is skipped):

path	fast path	rou3
/	{_: ""}	undefined
/foo	{_: "foo"}	{_: ""}
/foo/bar	{_: "foo/bar"}	{_: "bar"}
/foobar	{_: "foobar"}	undefined

there's another issue too: mergeCatchAll reads router.root.wildcard, but under a non-root base this lives under root.static.foo. that means that multiple /** handlers never merge into a multiHandler and one of them is dropped.

this PR makes the fast path guard on the base and slice past it, matching the rou3 output, and walks the base segments in mergeCatchAll before looking for the wildcard node.

worth flagging one consequence: with the match fixed, a renderer registered at /** really is mounted at /foo/**, so anything that re-dispatches internally to a base-less URL stops matching.

we'll handle that internally in nuxt but it makes #4381 look more attractive...

alternatively, you might prefer to skip the fast path entirely when a base is set 🙏

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Catch-all routing now respects the configured base URL during compilation and handler merging. Wildcard-only routers reject paths outside the base URL and slice parameters relative to it. New tests cover matching, rejection, optimized routing equivalence, and merged catch-all data.

Changes

Base-URL catch-all routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Base-URL-relative wildcard matching src/routing.ts, test/unit/routing.test.ts	Wildcard-only compiled routers validate paths against the base URL and slice parameters relative to it. Tests cover matching, rejection, and optimized-path equivalence.
Base-URL catch-all merging src/routing.ts, test/unit/routing.test.ts	Router._update passes the base URL to mergeCatchAll. The merge traverses base-URL route nodes before combining catch-all handlers. Tests verify merged handler data.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 71111

The routing fix is localized, and the remaining issue is a minor API-style cleanup with no merge-blocking impact. The PR is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the Conventional Commits format with the valid fix: type and accurately describes the baseURL catch-all routing correction.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the non-root baseURL bug, the single catch-all fast-path fix, the mergeCatchAll correction, and the related tests.
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In `@src/routing.ts`:
- Line 163: Update both mergeCatchAll calls in the routing setup to pass the
base URL through an options object using the baseURL property, rather than
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use an options object for baseURL.

mergeCatchAll now has a positional second parameter. Pass { baseURL } instead.

Proposed fix

-      mergeCatchAll(this._router, this._baseURL);
+      mergeCatchAll(this._router, { baseURL: this._baseURL });
...
-function mergeCatchAll(router: RouterContext<unknown>, baseURL: string) {
+function mergeCatchAll(
+  router: RouterContext<unknown>,
+  { baseURL }: { baseURL: string }
+) {

As per coding guidelines, “For multi-arg functions, use an options object as the second parameter.”

Also applies to: 210-210

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In `@src/routing.ts` at line 163, Update both mergeCatchAll calls in the routing
setup to pass the base URL through an options object using the baseURL property,
rather than supplying it as a positional second argument.

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