next dev: page renders but never hydrates via 127.0.0.1 or a proxy host (dev assets blocked as cross-origin)

Fix

Use http://localhost:<port> for local testing and headless browsers, or
Allow the extra origins explicitly:

// next.config.js
module.exports = { allowedDevOrigins: ["127.0.0.1", "preview.example.com"] };

If middleware/proxy auth gates requests, exclude /_next/webpack-hmr and /_next/ from the gate.

Symptom

When running next dev and opening http://127.0.0.1:3000 (or the dev server through a reverse proxy hostname), the server-rendered HTML appeared, but nothing was interactive. Dev chunk/HMR requests were refused with 403 and hydration never happened. The same app at http://localhost:3000 worked.

Cause

Recent Next.js dev servers block cross-origin requests for dev-only resources (/_next/* dev chunks, /_next/webpack-hmr) unless the origin is allowed. 127.0.0.1 and proxy hostnames count as different origins from localhost.

Verify

After switching the test URL to localhost, the page hydrated (buttons responded, client fetches ran) in both a real browser and Playwright.

Notes

For anything exposed through a proxy to other people, a production build (next build && next start) avoids this whole class of dev-only origin checks.

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next dev: page renders but never hydrates via 127.0.0.1 or a proxy host (dev assets blocked as cross-origin)

Symptom

Cause

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