devframes · antfu · Aug 14, 2026 · Aug 13, 2026 · Aug 14, 2026 · Aug 14, 2026
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ The `pnpm test` script intentionally runs `build` first so `tsnapi` snapshots co
 - Utility imports use the package-path form `devframe/utils/*`, never relative `../utils/*`.
 - Dependencies go through the pnpm catalogs in `pnpm-workspace.yaml` (`cli`, `inlined`, `testing`, `types`) - add to a catalog and reference as `catalog:<name>`, don't pin versions in `package.json`.
 
+### Framework adapter packages: two scopes, one shape
+
+The framework adapter packages - `@devframes/vite`, `@devframes/nuxt`, `@devframes/next` - each split their surface into **two clearly-scoped subpaths**, because a consumer is always doing one of two distinct jobs. Keep all three parallel:
+
+- **`.../dev-spa`** - **build & dev-serve a single devframe's SPA** with that tool (the "I'm authoring one devframe" scope). Vite: the `devframeVitePlugin` / `devframeViteBridge` / `devframeVite` plugins. Next: `withDevframe` + `createDevframeNextHandler`, with its React client at `.../dev-spa/client`. Nuxt: the Nuxt module (registered as `modules: ['@devframes/nuxt/dev-spa']`).
+- **`.../hub`** - **mount a whole `@devframes/hub` (many integrations) inside that tool** (the "I'm standing up devtools" scope). Wraps `initHub`, defaults the UI slot to `@devframes/hub-ui`'s `createUi()` (overridable via `ui`, or `ui: false` for headless), and ships a browser client helper at `.../hub/client` (a thin, lifecycle-managing wrapper over `@devframes/hub/client`'s `createDevframeClientHost`). `@devframes/hub` and `@devframes/hub-ui` are **optional peers** of these packages; `hub-ui` is loaded lazily (a bundler-ignored dynamic `import()` in the Next hub) so it stays optional and its `import.meta.url` asset lookups resolve at request time.
+- **The bare root (`.`) throws** a helpful error pointing at the two subpaths - never put real code on it.
+- **Vite and Nuxt already have native hub viewers** (`@vitejs/devtools-kit`, `@nuxt/devtools`), so `@devframes/vite/hub` and `@devframes/nuxt/hub` still work but emit a one-time `console.warn` recommending those (silence with `{ quiet: true }`). `@devframes/next/hub` has no native counterpart, so it warns nothing.
+- The **full hub examples** (`examples/hub-vite`, `examples/hub-next`) consume `.../hub` for the server but keep hand-rolling their own client UI against `@devframes/hub/client` with `ui: false` - that hand-rolled client is the whole point of those reference hosts. The **minimal** ones (`examples/hub-*-minimal`) consume `.../hub` with the default `@devframes/hub-ui` and inject its `embedded.js`, needing no client code.
+
 ### Design system
 
 All five built-in plugins - and every example under `examples/` - share one design system, [`@antfu/design`](https://github.com/antfu/design), so they look and feel like one product across frameworks (Git is React/Next, terminals is Svelte, code-server is Vue, inspect is Vue, a11y is Solid, the examples are Preact/Next/vanilla). It's a dev dependency consumed at build time: its UnoCSS preset and shipped styles drive every surface, and its Vue components are the canonical reference every framework matches. There is no shared internal design package - each app wires the preset itself and owns its own component ports.

diff --git a/alias.ts b/alias.ts
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ export const alias = {
   'devframe/adapters/cac': r('devframe/src/adapters/cac.ts'),
   'devframe/adapters/dev': r('devframe/src/adapters/dev.ts'),
   'devframe/adapters/build': r('devframe/src/adapters/build.ts'),
-  'devframe/helpers/vite': r('devframe/src/helpers/vite.ts'),
   'devframe/adapters/embedded': r('devframe/src/adapters/embedded.ts'),
   'devframe/initiate': r('devframe/src/adapters/initiate.ts'),
   'devframe/adapters/mcp': r('devframe/src/adapters/mcp/index.ts'),
@@ -51,9 +50,19 @@ export const alias = {
   '@devframes/hub': r('hub/src/index.ts'),
   '@devframes/hub-ui': r('hub-ui/src/index.ts'),
   '@devframes/nuxt/runtime/plugin.client': r('nuxt/src/runtime/plugin.client.ts'),
+  '@devframes/nuxt/dev-spa': r('nuxt/src/dev-spa.ts'),
+  '@devframes/nuxt/hub/client': r('nuxt/src/hub-client.ts'),
+  '@devframes/nuxt/hub': r('nuxt/src/hub.ts'),
   '@devframes/nuxt': r('nuxt/src/index.ts'),
-  '@devframes/next/client': r('next/src/client.tsx'),
+  '@devframes/next/dev-spa/client': r('next/src/client.tsx'),
+  '@devframes/next/dev-spa': r('next/src/dev-spa.ts'),
+  '@devframes/next/hub/client': r('next/src/hub-client.tsx'),
+  '@devframes/next/hub': r('next/src/hub.ts'),
   '@devframes/next': r('next/src/index.ts'),
+  '@devframes/vite/dev-spa': r('vite/src/dev-spa.ts'),
+  '@devframes/vite/hub/client': r('vite/src/hub-client.ts'),
+  '@devframes/vite/hub': r('vite/src/hub.ts'),
+  '@devframes/vite': r('vite/src/index.ts'),
   '@devframes/json-render/core': r('json-render/src/core.ts'),
   '@devframes/json-render/hub': r('json-render/src/hub.ts'),
   '@devframes/json-render/node': r('json-render/src/node/index.ts'),

diff --git a/docs/.vitepress/config.ts b/docs/.vitepress/config.ts
@@ -16,30 +16,60 @@ function listErrorCodes(prefix: string): string[] {
     .sort()
 }
 
-function guideItems(prefix: string) {
+function guideGroups(prefix: string) {
   return [
-    { text: 'Introduction', link: `${prefix}/guide/` },
-    { text: 'Devframe Definition', link: `${prefix}/guide/devframe-definition` },
-    { text: 'Scoped Context', link: `${prefix}/guide/scoped-context` },
-    { text: 'Cross-Plugin Services', link: `${prefix}/guide/services` },
-    { text: 'RPC', link: `${prefix}/guide/rpc` },
-    { text: 'Shared State', link: `${prefix}/guide/shared-state` },
-    { text: 'JSON-Render', link: `${prefix}/guide/json-render` },
-    { text: 'Streaming', link: `${prefix}/guide/streaming` },
-    { text: 'When Clauses', link: `${prefix}/guide/when-clauses` },
-    { text: 'Structured Diagnostics', link: `${prefix}/guide/diagnostics` },
-    { text: 'Client', link: `${prefix}/guide/client` },
-    { text: 'Transports', link: `${prefix}/guide/transports` },
-    { text: 'Security', link: `${prefix}/guide/security` },
-    { text: 'Standalone CLI', link: `${prefix}/guide/standalone-cli` },
-    { text: 'Hub', link: `${prefix}/guide/hub` },
-    { text: 'Serve a Hub Anywhere', link: `${prefix}/guide/hub-initiate` },
-    { text: 'Deep Linking', link: `${prefix}/guide/deep-linking` },
-    { text: 'Client Scripts & Context', link: `${prefix}/guide/client-context` },
-    { text: 'Build Your Own Hub UI', link: `${prefix}/guide/build-your-own-hub-ui` },
-    { text: 'Build Your Own JSON-Render Frontend', link: `${prefix}/guide/build-your-own-json-render-frontend` },
-    { text: 'Agent-Native (experimental)', link: `${prefix}/guide/agent-native` },
-  ] satisfies DefaultTheme.NavItemWithLink[]
+    {
+      text: 'Fundamentals',
+      items: [
+        { text: 'Introduction', link: `${prefix}/guide/` },
+        { text: 'Devframe Definition', link: `${prefix}/guide/devframe-definition` },
+        { text: 'Scoped Context', link: `${prefix}/guide/scoped-context` },
+        { text: 'Cross-Plugin Services', link: `${prefix}/guide/services` },
+        { text: 'RPC', link: `${prefix}/guide/rpc` },
+        { text: 'Shared State', link: `${prefix}/guide/shared-state` },
+        { text: 'Streaming', link: `${prefix}/guide/streaming` },
+        { text: 'When Clauses', link: `${prefix}/guide/when-clauses` },
+        { text: 'Structured Diagnostics', link: `${prefix}/guide/diagnostics` },
+      ],
+    },
+    {
+      text: 'Client & Security',
+      items: [
+        { text: 'Client', link: `${prefix}/guide/client` },
+        { text: 'Transports', link: `${prefix}/guide/transports` },
+        { text: 'Security', link: `${prefix}/guide/security` },
+        { text: 'Deep Linking', link: `${prefix}/guide/deep-linking` },
+      ],
+    },
+    {
+      text: 'JSON-Render',
+      items: [
+        { text: 'JSON-Render', link: `${prefix}/guide/json-render` },
+        { text: 'Build Your Own JSON-Render Frontend', link: `${prefix}/guide/build-your-own-json-render-frontend` },
+      ],
+    },
+    {
+      text: 'Hub',
+      items: [
+        { text: 'Hub', link: `${prefix}/guide/hub` },
+        { text: 'Serve a Hub Anywhere', link: `${prefix}/guide/hub-initiate` },
+        { text: 'Client Scripts & Context', link: `${prefix}/guide/client-context` },
+        { text: 'Build Your Own Hub UI', link: `${prefix}/guide/build-your-own-hub-ui` },
+      ],
+    },
+    {
+      text: 'Recipes & Advanced',
+      items: [
+        { text: 'Standalone CLI', link: `${prefix}/guide/standalone-cli` },
+        { text: 'Agent-Native (experimental)', link: `${prefix}/guide/agent-native` },
+      ],
+    },
+  ] satisfies { text: string, items: DefaultTheme.NavItemWithLink[] }[]
+}
+
+/** Flattened guide list — used by the top nav dropdown, which renders one level. */
+function guideItems(prefix: string) {
+  return guideGroups(prefix).flatMap(group => group.items) satisfies DefaultTheme.NavItemWithLink[]
 }
 
 function adaptersItems(prefix: string) {
@@ -49,19 +79,25 @@ function adaptersItems(prefix: string) {
     { text: 'Dev', link: `${prefix}/adapters/dev` },
     { text: 'Initiate (middleware)', link: `${prefix}/adapters/initiate` },
     { text: 'Build', link: `${prefix}/adapters/build` },
-    { text: 'Vite', link: `${prefix}/adapters/vite` },
+    { text: 'Vite DevTools', link: `${prefix}/adapters/vite` },
     { text: 'Embedded', link: `${prefix}/adapters/embedded` },
     { text: 'MCP', link: `${prefix}/adapters/mcp` },
   ] satisfies DefaultTheme.NavItemWithLink[]
 }
 
+function frameworksItems(prefix: string) {
+  return [
+    { text: 'Overview', link: `${prefix}/frameworks/` },
+    { text: 'Vite', link: `${prefix}/frameworks/vite` },
+    { text: 'Nuxt', link: `${prefix}/frameworks/nuxt` },
+    { text: 'Next', link: `${prefix}/frameworks/next` },
+  ] satisfies DefaultTheme.NavItemWithLink[]
+}
+
 function helpersItems(prefix: string) {
   return [
     { text: 'Overview', link: `${prefix}/helpers/` },
     { text: 'Utilities', link: `${prefix}/helpers/utilities` },
-    { text: 'Vite Bridge', link: `${prefix}/helpers/vite-bridge` },
-    { text: 'Nuxt Module', link: `${prefix}/helpers/nuxt` },
-    { text: 'Next Helper', link: `${prefix}/helpers/next` },
     { text: 'Common RPC Functions', link: `${prefix}/helpers/common-rpc-functions` },
     { text: 'Interactive Auth', link: `${prefix}/helpers/interactive-auth` },
   ] satisfies DefaultTheme.NavItemWithLink[]
@@ -103,12 +139,17 @@ export function devframeSidebar(prefix = ''): DefaultTheme.SidebarItem[] {
   return [
     {
       text: 'Guide',
-      items: guideItems(prefix),
+      // Labelled, collapsible subsections instead of one long flat list.
+      items: guideGroups(prefix).map(group => ({ ...group, collapsed: false })),
     },
     {
       text: 'Adapters',
       items: adaptersItems(prefix),
     },
+    {
+      text: 'Frameworks',
+      items: frameworksItems(prefix),
+    },
     {
       text: 'Helpers',
       items: helpersItems(prefix),
@@ -137,6 +178,7 @@ export function devframeNav(prefix = ''): DefaultTheme.NavItem[] {
       text: 'Adapters',
       items: [
         ...adaptersItems(prefix),
+        { text: 'Frameworks', items: frameworksItems(prefix) },
         { text: 'Helpers', items: helpersItems(prefix) },
       ],
     },

diff --git a/docs/adapters/initiate.md b/docs/adapters/initiate.md
@@ -126,4 +126,4 @@ The instance **gates by default** — a handler mounted inside an app server is
 
 ## Relation to the other adapters
 
-`createDevServer`, `viteDevBridge`, and `@devframes/next` are assembled from this instance internally — the handler is the one wiring underneath every serving path. To host **many** devframes behind one namespace with shared transport and docks, use the hub's counterpart: [`initHub`](../guide/hub-initiate).
+`createDevServer`, `devframeViteBridge` (`@devframes/vite`), and `@devframes/next` are assembled from this instance internally — the handler is the one wiring underneath every serving path. To host **many** devframes behind one namespace with shared transport and docks, use the hub's counterpart: [`initHub`](../guide/hub-initiate).
diff --git a/docs/adapters/mcp.md b/docs/adapters/mcp.md
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ defineDevframe({
 Both hosted bridges forward the same option to their side-car dev server and advertise the endpoint (with its port) in the `__connection.json` they serve:
 
 ```ts
-// Vite
-viteDevBridge(devframe, { devMiddleware: true, mcp: true })
+// Vite (@devframes/vite)
+devframeViteBridge(devframe, { mcp: true })
 
 // Next.js (@devframes/next)
 createDevframeNextHandler(devframe, { mcp: true })
@@ -90,6 +90,6 @@ It exposes two gateway tools (the wire names of the `devframe:connect:*` ids —
 - **`devframe_connect_list-instances`** — discover running devframe dev servers and list each one's MCP tools. Instances running without an MCP route are listed with a hint to restart with `--mcp`.
 - **`devframe_connect_call-tool`** — invoke one tool on one instance (`{ port, tool, args }`) over its Streamable-HTTP endpoint.
 
-Discovery reads the **instance registry**: every `createDevServer` (CLI `dev`, `viteDevBridge`, `@devframes/next`'s handler) writes a record to `~/.devframe/instances/<pid>-<port>.json` on boot and removes it on close; readers prune records whose liveness probe fails. The connector dials each instance's endpoint with the instance's own loopback origin, so it clears the route's origin gate without any configuration. In-process hosts register explicitly with `registerDevframeInstance` from `devframe/node` — see `createDevframeNextHost().mountMcp` for serving MCP on a Next app's own origin. `--port <n>` probes an explicit port besides the registry; `DEVFRAME_INSTANCES_DIR` relocates the registry and `DEVFRAME_DISABLE_INSTANCE_REGISTRY=1` opts a server out.
+Discovery reads the **instance registry**: every `createDevServer` (CLI `dev`, `devframeViteBridge`, `@devframes/next`'s handler) writes a record to `~/.devframe/instances/<pid>-<port>.json` on boot and removes it on close; readers prune records whose liveness probe fails. The connector dials each instance's endpoint with the instance's own loopback origin, so it clears the route's origin gate without any configuration. In-process hosts register explicitly with `registerDevframeInstance` from `devframe/node` — see `createDevframeNextHost().mountMcp` for serving MCP on a Next app's own origin. `--port <n>` probes an explicit port besides the registry; `DEVFRAME_INSTANCES_DIR` relocates the registry and `DEVFRAME_DISABLE_INSTANCE_REGISTRY=1` opts a server out.
 
 See the [Agent-Native](/guide/agent-native) page for the full API, safety model, and Claude Desktop integration example.
diff --git a/docs/errors/DF0033.md b/docs/errors/DF0033.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ outline: deep
 
 ## Cause
 
-`viteDevBridge({ devMiddleware })` could not bring up the bridge dev server that pairs a host-served SPA (Vite, Nuxt, Astro, etc.) with devframe's RPC backend. Common reasons:
+`devframeViteBridge()` (from `@devframes/vite`) could not bring up the bridge dev server that pairs a host-served SPA (Vite, Nuxt, Astro, etc.) with devframe's RPC backend. Common reasons:
 
 - The preferred port is in use and no fallback range was configured.
 - Calling `def.setup(ctx)` threw — the devframe's own setup logic surfaced an error.
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ This is a soft warning — the surrounding Vite dev server keeps running, but th
 
 ## Fix
 
-- Pin a port via `cli.port` / `cli.portRange` on the devframe definition, or via `devMiddleware.port` on `viteDevBridge`.
+- Pin a port via `cli.port` / `cli.portRange` on the devframe definition, or via `port` on `devframeViteBridge`.
 - Inspect the `reason` (or the attached `cause`) for the underlying error — fix the setup function or free the port.
 - For Nuxt: pass `devMiddleware: { port: <free-port> }` to the `@devframes/nuxt` module.
 
 ## Source
 
-- [`packages/devframe/src/helpers/vite.ts`](https://github.com/devframes/devframe/blob/main/packages/devframe/src/helpers/vite.ts) — `viteDevBridge({ devMiddleware })` logs `DF0033` when port resolution or `createDevServer` throws during `configureServer`.
+- [`packages/vite/src/index.ts`](https://github.com/devframes/devframe/blob/main/packages/vite/src/index.ts) — `devframeViteBridge()` logs `DF0033` when port resolution or `createDevServer` throws during `configureServer`.
diff --git a/docs/errors/DF0052.md b/docs/errors/DF0052.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The instance's side-car / shared-server transport binding tried to bind the HTTP
 
 ## Fix
 
-- Free the port, or pick another via `--port`, `cli.port` / `cli.portRange` on the definition, or `devMiddleware.port` on `viteDevBridge`.
+- Free the port, or pick another via `--port`, `cli.port` / `cli.portRange` on the definition, or `port` on `devframeViteBridge` (`@devframes/vite`).
 - The original node error is available as `error.cause` — check `error.cause.code` (e.g. `'EADDRINUSE'`) to branch on the failure kind programmatically.
 
 ## Source

diff --git a/docs/frameworks/index.md b/docs/frameworks/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+outline: deep
+---
+
+# Frameworks
+
+The framework packages — [`@devframes/vite`](./vite), [`@devframes/nuxt`](./nuxt), and [`@devframes/next`](./next) — integrate devframe with a specific meta-framework's dev server. Each one splits into **two clearly-scoped subpaths**, because you're always doing one of two distinct jobs:
+
+| Scope | Subpath | You are… |
+|-------|---------|----------|
+| **dev-spa** | `.../dev-spa` | building & dev-serving a **single devframe's SPA** with that tool |
+| **hub** | `.../hub` | mounting a whole **[devframes-hub](/guide/hub)** (many integrations) inside that tool |
+
+The bare package root (`@devframes/vite`, `@devframes/nuxt`, `@devframes/next`) has no export — it throws with a pointer to the two subpaths, so an accidental bare import fails loudly instead of resolving to nothing.
+
+| Package | dev-spa | hub |
+|---------|---------|-----|
+| [`@devframes/vite`](./vite) | `devframeVitePlugin` / `devframeViteBridge` / `devframeVite` | `viteDevframeHub` (+ `/hub/client`) |
+| [`@devframes/nuxt`](./nuxt) | the Nuxt module (`modules: ['@devframes/nuxt/dev-spa']`) | the hub Nuxt module (+ `/hub/client`) |
+| [`@devframes/next`](./next) | `withDevframe` + `createDevframeNextHandler` (+ `/dev-spa/client`) | `nextDevframeHub` (+ `/hub/client`) |
+
+## dev-spa: author one devframe
+
+The `dev-spa` scope is for when the thing you're building **is** a devframe — you author its UI with Vite/Nuxt/Next and want its RPC backend running during development. See each package's page for the details; for the framework-neutral CLI/build/embedded outputs, reach for the [adapters](/adapters/) instead.
+
+## hub: mount a devframes-hub
+
+The `hub` scope mounts an [`@devframes/hub`](/guide/hub) — many integrations under one namespace, one merged RPC registry — inside the tool's dev server. Each `hub` entry wraps [`initHub`](/guide/hub-initiate), defaults the UI slot to [`@devframes/hub-ui`](/guide/build-your-own-hub-ui)'s `createUi()` (override with `ui`, or `ui: false` for a headless hub you drive with the matching `/hub/client` helper), and mounts everything behind one catch-all.
+
+- **[Vite](./vite#mounting-a-hub)** — `viteDevframeHub()` shares Vite's dev server and injects the floating dock.
+- **[Nuxt](./nuxt#mounting-a-hub)** — the hub Nuxt module wires the Vite hub plugin into `nuxt dev`.
+- **[Next](./next#mounting-a-hub)** — `nextDevframeHub()` serves the hub from one App Router route on a side-car socket.
+
+Vite and Nuxt already have native hub viewers ([Vite DevTools](https://devtools.vite.dev), [Nuxt DevTools](https://devtools.nuxt.com)) that integrate the same hub protocol, so `@devframes/vite/hub` and `@devframes/nuxt/hub` print a one-time recommendation to prefer those (silence with `{ quiet: true }`). Next has no native counterpart, so `@devframes/next/hub` stays quiet.
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		## Relation to the other adapters

		`createDevServer`, `viteDevBridge`, and `@devframes/next` are assembled from this instance internally — the handler is the one wiring underneath every serving path. To host many devframes behind one namespace with shared transport and docks, use the hub's counterpart: [`initHub`](../guide/hub-initiate).
		`createDevServer`, `devframeViteBridge` (`@devframes/vite`), and `@devframes/next` are assembled from this instance internally — the handler is the one wiring underneath every serving path. To host many devframes behind one namespace with shared transport and docks, use the hub's counterpart: [`initHub`](../guide/hub-initiate).