fix: stop middleware chain when navigation is redirected or aborted

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🔗 Linked issue

Fixes: #1101

❓ Type of change

• 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation or readme)
• 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality like performance)
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📚 Description

This fixes an issue where the remaining middleware still runs even after a middleware defined with defineNuxtRouteMiddleware returns navigateTo() or abortNavigation().

convertToLegacyMiddleware returned without doing anything when the middleware returned false. Nuxt 2's middlewareSeries does not check return values; it only stops calling the remaining middleware when ctx._redirected or ctx._errored is set. As a result, returning false did not stop the chain.

false is returned in the following cases:

• navigateTo() is called in a middleware on the server side
• abortNavigation() is called without arguments
• the middleware returns false

Behavior changes

• Returning abortNavigation() on the server side: previously, the remaining middleware ran and the page was rendered with a 200 status. It now responds with a 404.
• Returning abortNavigation() on the client side: previously, the navigation continued. It is now aborted.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The middleware adapter now handles middleware results of false according to the execution context, including server rendering, client hydration, and client navigation. Global middleware receives a context flag. New playground routes and tests cover redirects, server-side aborts, and client-side aborted navigation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f0075

Navigation aborts currently stop the middleware chain. The review recommends testing that a later global middleware is skipped; no current production failure is established, so merge risk is minimal.

Pre-merge checks · 5

Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: stopping the middleware chain after navigation is redirected or aborted.
Description check		The description directly explains the middleware-chain bug, the affected navigation cases, the behavior changes, and the linked issue.
Linked Issues check		Issue #1101 requires the middleware chain to stop after navigateTo() or abortNavigation(). The PR preserves redirect handling and adds result === false handling in convertToLegacyMiddleware. N…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #1101. The _isGlobalMiddleware context flag supports correct handling of global middleware. The playground middleware and page provide a focused reproduction. The integ…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 2 …

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packages/bridge/src/runtime/app.plugin.mjs (1)

73-79: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover a later global middleware after false.

/navigate-to-false checks that the global middleware cancels navigation with status 404, but it does not check that a later global middleware is skipped. The added /middleware-chain tests use named page middleware, so they cannot detect a regression in the global middleware loop. Add a later global fixture that fails if it runs for /navigate-to-false, and keep the existing 404 assertion.

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Review comment at @packages/bridge/src/runtime/app.plugin.mjs around lines 73 -
79:
Extend the global middleware test coverage around the middleware loop to verify
that a later global middleware is skipped when an earlier one returns false for
`/navigate-to-false`. Keep the existing 404 assertion and use a fixture that
fails if the later middleware runs; do not rely on the named page middleware
cases.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @packages/bridge/src/runtime/app.plugin.mjs:
- Around line 73-79: Extend the global middleware test coverage around the
middleware loop to verify that a later global middleware is skipped when an
earlier one returns false for `/navigate-to-false`. Keep the existing 404
assertion and use a fixture that fails if the later middleware runs; do not rely
on the named page middleware cases.

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📒 Files selected for processing (7)

• packages/bridge/src/runtime/app.plugin.mjs
• packages/bridge/src/runtime/composables/router.ts
• playground/middleware/break-chain.ts
• playground/middleware/unreachable.ts
• playground/pages/middleware-chain/break.vue
• playground/pages/middleware-chain/index.vue
• test/bridge.test.ts

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