feat: support separate provider for server and client

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🔗 Linked issue

Resolves #540

📚 Description

provider decides both where SSR gets icon data and where the browser gets it. This lets you set the two separately, e.g. render from the server bundle during SSR while the browser fetches from an Iconify API / CDN:

icon: {
  provider: { server: 'server', client: 'iconify' },
  iconifyApiEndpoint: 'https://icons.example.com',
  serverBundle: { collections: ['lucide', 'mdi'] },
}

• A string provider works as before and is the same as { server: X, client: X }.
• The object form requires both server and client. A partial object fails module setup with an error.
• The server bundle and the local /api/_nuxt_icon endpoint are enabled when at least one side is 'server'.
• clientBundle.includeCustomCollections defaults to true unless both sides are 'server', since the client bundle is also used during SSR.
• The server bundle / endpoint decision is made at build time, so overriding provider in app.config.ts doesn't enable or disable them. provider in app.config.ts isn't validated, so both sides should be set there too (documented in the README).

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🔵 Needs a closer look

The custom-collection watcher does not honor the new effective default, leaving directory-based client bundles stale until restart.

Review effort: Lite
Findings: None

What changed in this PR

Adds separate server and client provider configuration while preserving string-provider compatibility.

Changes:

• Adds side-specific provider normalization and runtime loading.
• Updates server bundle, endpoint, and custom collection behavior.
• Adds documentation, playground configuration, fixtures, and tests.

Review findings: Moderate — the custom-collection watcher does not use the new effective default. Nit — the fixture does not exercise the client-side provider path.

File	Description
test/​split-provider.test.ts	Tests split-provider SSR and endpoint behavior.
test/​provider.test.ts	Tests provider utilities.
test/​provider-types.test.ts	Verifies provider type consistency.
test/​module.test.ts	Tests invalid provider configuration.
test/​fixtures/​split-provider/​nuxt.config.ts	Configures the split-provider fixture.
test/​fixtures/​split-provider/​app.vue	Renders fixture icons and provider data.
test/​context-provider.test.ts	Tests bundle gating.
src/​schema.ts	Updates provider schema metadata.
src/​schema-types.ts	Defines provider types.
src/​runtime/​provider.ts	Normalizes and resolves providers by side.
src/​runtime/​plugin.ts	Selects the runtime provider for SSR or client.
src/​module.ts	Applies provider normalization and endpoint setup.
src/​core/​types.ts	Documents custom collection defaults.
src/​context.ts	Gates bundles and custom collections.
README.md	Documents separate providers.
playgrounds/​nuxt/​nuxt.config.ts	Adds a configuration example.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds support for separate server and client icon providers. The module normalizes string and object provider options, and the runtime selects resources based on the current side. Server-bundle resolution and custom-collection inclusion now account for both providers. Tests cover provider validation, bundle behavior, SSR output, and the local icon endpoint.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to eaf81

Valid provider configurations behave as documented, but an unsupported value can silently select Iconify and cause unintended outbound icon requests. Restore provider-value validation or consciously accept this bounded risk before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to eaf81

Mixed-provider configurations can place every custom icon in the browser bundle by default, even when SSR obtains icons from the server. Applications should check whether those collections are intended for browser delivery.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: For a mixed provider, the default now includes every custom-collection icon in the browser bundle. Switching from server-only delivery can therefore expose unreferenced icon names and data to browser clients; whether that matters depends on the application's collections.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — With a mixed provider, browser clients can receive the complete configured custom-icon catalog through the generated client bundle, rather than only icons explicitly selected for that bundle.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A browser user could inspect bundled custom-icon names and data under the new mixed-provider default. No evidence establishes that a particular collection contains confidential assets; server-served icons were already requestable individually.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The provider and external endpoint come from application configuration. Request-supplied icon identifiers do not choose an endpoint host; the local handler retains its fallback and host controls, while explicit false can exclude complete custom collections from the client bundle.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — An app-config override that disagrees with the built provider can select a missing local route or leave an unused route deployed. This is a configuration-alignment constraint, not an established new bypass in this PR.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — For collections not intended for wholesale browser delivery, explicitly set clientBundle.includeCustomCollections to false when adopting a mixed provider and verify that required client icons remain available.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 14 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: separate server and client provider configuration.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the separate provider behavior, validation, build-time decisions, and custom collection defaults covered by the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #540 requires independent providers for SSR and the browser. The PR adds the { server, client } provider form, rejects incomplete objects, selects the provider by runtime side, and keeps strin…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within issue #540. Provider helpers, schema and type updates, build and runtime integration, documentation, fixture changes, and tests implement or verify separate SSR and client prov…

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🟡 Minor · Update the existing custom-collection default description. · README.md:554

README.md:554
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Update the existing custom-collection default description.

This sentence says includeCustomCollections is disabled by default except when ssr: false. The new rule in src/context.ts enables it whenever the two providers are not both server, including SSR configurations. Replace this sentence with the rule stated at Line 477.

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Review comment at @README.md at line 554:
Update the README description of includeCustomCollections to state that it is
enabled whenever the two providers are not both server, including in SSR
configurations; remove the claim that it is enabled automatically only when ssr
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- Line 475: Update the README statement to distinguish the conditions: a
`server` provider registers the local endpoint, while the server bundle is
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Add browser-side coverage for the split provider.

The fixture sets browser: false, so it only exercises the server branch of src/runtime/plugin.ts. A regression that selects server for the client would still pass the current SSR, configuration, and local-endpoint assertions. The direct getSideProvider tests do not execute browser-side icon resolution. Add a browser-enabled assertion that loads an icon through the configured Iconify provider.

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[antfu]

Let's extract an IconProvider type to better compose this.

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Done. Following the same pattern as customize type.