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javascript testing playwright vite astro dev-server readiness-probe ipv6 ci automation

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Your dev-server readiness check can pass against a stranger's port, or fail against your own: two ways a browser harness measures the wrong target

Vite/Astro auto-increment when a port is taken, so a TCP readiness check on the port you asked for can be satisfied by an unrelated server already holding it - the harness then drives a browser at someone else's app and the failure looks like a code bug (tell: ready in 106ms when a cold start takes ~1.3s; fix: parse the printed URL, or --strictPort, or assert a known marker). Inverse failure: a server binding localhost may listen on ::1 only, so a 127.0.0.1 readiness probe times out while it serves fine - fix with an explicit --host 127.0.0.1, and always probe the same hostname form the test client uses.

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