Environment

• Operating System: macOS 25.5.0
• CPU: Apple M1 (8 cores)
• Node.js version: v22.22.3
• nuxt/cli version: 3.35.2
• Package manager: npm 10.9.8
• Nuxt version: 4.4.7
• Nitro version: 2.13.4
• Builder: vite 7.3.5
• Modules: @nuxt/eslint 1.15.2, @nuxt/ui 4.8.2, @nuxt/scripts 1.2.1, @nuxt/image 2.0.0, @nuxtjs/sanity 2.3.0, @nuxtjs/seo 5.1.3, motion-v/nuxt 2.2.1, @vueuse/nuxt 14.3.0, nuxt-schema-org 6.0.4

Reproduction

Any Nuxt 4 project running on Node.js 22 on macOS. Run npm run dev.

Describe the bug

On Node.js 22 + macOS, the dev server is completely broken. every request returns 500. The following error appears on every startup:

ERROR [nuxt] Failed to restrict vite-node socket permissions; closing. 
ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/var/folders/.../nuxt-vite-node-xxx/nuxt-vite-node-PID-TIMESTAMP.sock'
    at Object.chmodSync (node:fs:2058:11)
    at Server.<anonymous> (node_modules/@nuxt/vite-builder/dist/index.mjs:493:8)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:633:28)
    at Server.emit (node:events:519:28)
    at emitListeningNT (node:net:1983:10)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:88:21)

Root cause seems to be: In listenAndRestrict() (@nuxt/vite-builder/dist/index.mjs line ~493), Node.js 22 on macOS fires the listening event on a Unix socket server before the socket file actually appears on disk. The subsequent fs.chmodSync(socketPath, 384) fails with ENOENT, which triggers server.close() in the catch block — permanently destroying the socket server. All requests then fail because NUXT_VITE_NODE_OPTIONS still points to the now-deleted socket path.

Additional context

The sequence:
✔ Vite server built
ERROR Failed to restrict vite-node socket permissions ← socket file not on disk yet
✔ Nuxt Nitro server built
→ Every GET / returns 500

Workaround that fixes the issue.guard the chmodSync call:

// node_modules/@nuxt/vite-builder/dist/index.mjs ~line 493
// Before:
fs.chmodSync(socketPath, 384);

// After:
if (fs.existsSync(socketPath)) { return; }
fs.chmodSync(socketPath, 384);

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