From 0b886cf57ff2f55c693507d343c28e4979aa7b7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pooya Parsa <pyapar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:21:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: serve-placeholder

---
 packages/nitro/src/server.ts | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/nitro/src/server.ts b/packages/nitro/src/server.ts
index 70bfd90041..20936f61ee 100644
--- a/packages/nitro/src/server.ts
+++ b/packages/nitro/src/server.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import debounce from 'debounce'
 import chokidar from 'chokidar'
 import { listen, Listener } from 'listhen'
 import serveStatic from 'serve-static'
+import servePlaceholder from 'serve-placeholder'
 import { createProxy } from 'http-proxy'
 import { stat } from 'fs-extra'
 import type { SigmaContext } from './context'
@@ -68,6 +69,10 @@ export function createDevServer (sigmaContext: SigmaContext) {
     return next()
   })
 
+  // serve placeholder 404 assets instead of hitting SSR
+  app.use(sigmaContext._nuxt.publicPath, servePlaceholder())
+  app.use(sigmaContext._nuxt.routerBase, servePlaceholder({ skipUnknown: true }))
+
   // SSR Proxy
   const proxy = createProxy()
   app.use((req, res) => {