Unable to pick a custom port for dev mode, yet code exists to do so

[sasial-dev]

Environment

Nitropack: 0.4.8 Node: 16.11.0

Reproduction

N/A

Describe the bug

As shown at https://github.com/unjs/nitro/blob/main/src/cli.ts#L22 - there is the code avaliable to allow users to pick a custom port/configure the dev server further.

Additional context

We need to pick a port to allow use to debug our serverside while using our frontend on port :3000. We have a specific port we need to pin it on, but we can't.

Logs

No response

[sasial-dev]

As a workaround, we've liturally got a .js script with:

import { createDevServer, createNitro, build, prepare } from 'nitropack'

const nitro = await createNitro({
    dev: true,
    preset: 'nitro-dev'
})
const server = createDevServer(nitro)
await server.listen(50451)
await prepare(nitro)
await build(nitro)

[danielroe]

Have you tried setting the PORT environment variable?

[sasial-dev]

Yep, with no luck We even tried adding it to doppler (our secrets manager that injects into the env)

[sasial-dev]

[itpropro]

Any news on this @danielroe ? NITRO_PORT doesn't work for me in dev, but PORT does work. PORT is already used for many other things and we want to keep dev analogue to prod, where we use NITRO_PORT. With different env variables, it's difficult to create a consistent dev experience, especially as there are no cli parameters to specify the port.

[michaelkplai]

Looking at the commit history for src/cli/commands/dev.ts:

• After v2.3.1, port couldn't be specified when using the nitropack dev command since the port options weren't passed to the listen call.
• v2.6.0, fixes support for using PORT. See commit. NITRO_PORT is still unsupported for CLI dev.