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Improve vp create completion reporting when installation or formatting fails
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## Description
When dependency installation and formatting fail during `vp create`, the command can still finish by:
- displaying the project as `Scaffolded`;
- suggesting `vp run` as the next step;
- returning exit code 0.
In the same command, the user is first shown that manual installation and formatting may still be required, but the final output and process status indicate that project creation completed successfully.
## Observed flow
```mermaid
flowchart LR
subgraph actual["Actual execution"]
A["Project files are generated"] --> B["Dependency installation fails"]
B --> C["Formatting fails"]
end
subgraph result["Final signals from the CLI"]
D["Displays: Scaffolded"]
D --> E["Suggests: Next: vp run"]
E --> F["Returns exit code 0"]
end
C -->|"But the command still continues to"| D
```
The project directory and `package.json` are generated, but dependency installation and formatting do not complete. Despite that, the final message, suggested next step, and exit code all communicate that the complete operation succeeded.
## Reproduction
On macOS or Linux, run the following commands in a temporary directory:
```bash
workdir=$(mktemp -d)
cd "$workdir"
env -u VP_SKIP_INSTALL \
VP_CLI_BIN=/usr/bin/false \
vp create vite:application \
--no-interactive \
--no-hooks \
--no-git \
--directory create-failure-demo
exit_code=$?
echo "exit code: $exit_code"
test -d create-failure-demo && echo "project directory exists"
test -f create-failure-demo/package.json && echo "package.json exists"
test -d create-failure-demo/node_modules || echo "node_modules missing"
```
`VP_CLI_BIN=/usr/bin/false` makes the installation and formatting commands started internally by `vp create` return a failure consistently.
## Actual result
The stable terminal output contains the following lines:
```text
You may need to run "vp install" manually in /create-failure-demo
You may need to run "vp fmt" manually in /create-failure-demo
◇ Scaffolded create-failure-demo with Vite application
• Node 25.9.0 pnpm 11.21.0
→ Next: cd create-failure-demo && vp run
```
The recorded filesystem and process state is:
```text
exit code: 0
project directory exists
package.json exists
node_modules missing
```
## My understanding of the behavior
This appears to combine two different states:
1. The project directory and template files were generated.
2. The complete project creation process finished successfully.
In this reproduction, the first state is true: the `create-failure-demo` directory and its `package.json` exist.
The second state is not true: dependency installation and formatting both returned failures, and `node_modules` was not created.
The final output does not distinguish between these states. Instead, it presents three strong success signals:
- `Scaffolded` indicates that project creation completed.
- `Next: vp run` indicates that the project is ready to run.
- Exit code 0 indicates that the entire command completed successfully.
Even though the manual recovery messages appear earlier, users will naturally treat the final lines as the authoritative result of the command. This is especially noticeable after a long installation log, where the final summary is usually the first place users look to understand what happened.
For scripts and CI systems, the result is even less ambiguous: they generally use the process exit code rather than interpret terminal text. An exit code of 0 records this operation as successful.
The command therefore exposes several conflicting states at the same time:
```text
Dependency installation: failed
Formatting: failed
Project directory: created
package.json: created
node_modules: missing
Final summary: successful
Suggested next step: run the project
Process exit status: successful
```
The continued existence of the generated directory is not necessarily the confusing part. The confusion comes from presenting “project files were generated” and “the complete creation process succeeded” as the same state.
## Verification environment
- macOS 27.0 on arm64
- Node.js v25.9.0
- Package manager selected by `vp create`: pnpm 11.21.0
- Confirmed with the bundled local CLI and directly against `packages/cli/src/create/bin.ts` at commit `29036b2ff12ea30f80088de4a593842df2846c3b`
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Rechercherichtung
Start with packages/cli/src/create/bin.ts and run the macOS or Linux reproduction using VP_CLI_BIN=/usr/bin/false. Trace how installation and formatting failures affect the final summary, suggested next step, and exit status. Done when the command distinguishes generated files from a fully successful creation and reports the failures consistently.
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Bewertung
- Tech-Stack
- typescript, vite
- Bereich
- cli
- Issue-Typ
- Bug
- Schwierigkeit
- 3/5
- Geschätzter Aufwand
- 1-2 Tage
- Aktivitätsstatus
- Ruhig
- Klarheit
- Größtenteils klar
- Anfängerfreundlichkeit
- 65/100