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src/TheLivingWorld.Web/vite.config.ts

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+import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
+
+/**
+ * Resolves the API base URL that Aspire injected. `WithReference(api)` publishes each endpoint as
+ * `services__api__<scheme>__<index>`. Outside Aspire the fallback lets a plain `npm run dev` still work.
+ */
+function resolveApiUrl(): string {
+  const fromAspire = Object.keys(process.env)
+    .filter((key) => key.startsWith('services__api__'))
+    // Ascending order puts `http` ahead of `https`; plain HTTP is the simpler hop for a local proxy.
+    .sort()
+    .map((key) => process.env[key])
+    .find((value): value is string => !!value);
+
+  // Matches the `http` launch profile of TheLivingWorld.Api.
+  return fromAspire ?? process.env.API_URL ?? 'http://localhost:5195';
+}
+
+export default defineConfig(() => {
+  const apiUrl = resolveApiUrl();
+
+  return {
+    server: {
+      port: process.env.PORT ? Number(process.env.PORT) : 5173,
+      strictPort: true,
+      proxy: {
+        '/api': {
+          target: apiUrl,
+          changeOrigin: true,
+          // Aspire issues a development certificate the proxy has no reason to distrust.
+          secure: false,
+        },
+      },
+    },
+    build: {
+      target: 'es2022',
+      sourcemap: true,
+    },
+  };
+});