quarto preview sometimes gets stuck on a reload loop

[cscheid]

In the following instance, the culprit appears to be a ref: . entry in the navbar spec.

hfrick/workshops@5243cda

[cderv]

Just curious :

          - text: English
            href: .

What does this means exactly ? I would think href link for root of the website, but in that case wouldn't it be

          - text: English
            href: /

I did not look closely into the code base, but href is usually a document or external link. To add a link to root of the website, I would use /. Probably equivalent and . should work, but maybe catching . and replacing by / could be a safery measure here... 🤔

Anyhow, just wanted to share this thoughts of href: /

[mcanouil]

Indeed, the href: / "trick" solved the issue (see discussion on Slack).

My guess is that href: . might be resolved on each pages as it means "relative".

[cscheid]

Be that as it may, I think there should be nothing in Quarto that causes quarto preview to be stuck in a reload loop.

[max-de-rooij]

In my project, quarto preview remains in a reload loop because it's constantly creating and deleting a folder with a file called clipboard.min.js. Globally setting watch-inputs: false does not change anything.

[mcanouil]

@max-de-rooij please do provide a reproducible example. We unfortunately can't use your statement to investigate.

[max-de-rooij]

@mcanouil Sorry, I've done some investigation and apparently creating a button with a link as / causes quarto to reload indefinitely:

[Click Me](/){.btn .btn-success}

[mcanouil]

I can't reproduce.

quarto preview index.qmd

---
title: "Quarto Playground"
format: html
---

This is a playground for Quarto.

{{< lipsum 1 >}}

![An image]({{< placeholder 600 400 >}}){#fig-placeholder}

[Click Me](/){.btn .btn-success}

[max-de-rooij]

This is the yml file:

project:
  type: website

website:
  title: "example"
  navbar:
    background: "#C81919"
    align: center
    title: false
    left:
      - href: index.qmd

format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo
    toc: true

[max-de-rooij]

Screen.Recording.2024-08-12.at.15.55.06.mov

[mcanouil]

@max-de-rooij I still can't reproduce on the development version at least.