From c217ebe2ad83f3367436968aa91cca6f89ee5439 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Parker <10430890+Hona@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:25:32 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(desktop): skip web ui build in dev (#41881)

---
 packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts | 7 ++++++-
 packages/cli/script/build.ts      | 3 ++-
 packages/desktop/scripts/utils.ts | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts b/packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts
index d4529329260..1b6c08ca79a 100644
--- a/packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ import { readdir } from "node:fs/promises"
 import path from "node:path"
 import { brotliCompressSync, constants } from "node:zlib"
 
-export async function buildAppArchive(channel: string) {
+export async function buildAppArchive(channel: string, options?: { skipBuild?: boolean }) {
+  if (options?.skipBuild) return compress({})
   const root = path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, "../../app")
   await $`bun run build`.cwd(root).env({ ...process.env, OPENCODE_CHANNEL: channel })
   const assets = Object.fromEntries(
@@ -18,6 +19,10 @@ export async function buildAppArchive(channel: string) {
         }),
     ),
   )
+  return compress(assets)
+}
+
+function compress(assets: object) {
   return brotliCompressSync(JSON.stringify(assets), {
     params: { [constants.BROTLI_PARAM_QUALITY]: 11 },
   }).toString("base64")
diff --git a/packages/cli/script/build.ts b/packages/cli/script/build.ts
index 654f16a4d9c..1ee9767f4f3 100755
--- a/packages/cli/script/build.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/script/build.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ await rm(outdir, { recursive: true, force: true })
 const singleFlag = process.argv.includes("--single")
 const baselineFlag = process.argv.includes("--baseline")
 const skipInstall = process.argv.includes("--skip-install")
+const skipWebUi = process.argv.includes("--skip-web-ui")
 const solidPlugin = createSolidTransformPlugin()
 
 const allTargets: {
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ const targets = singleFlag
   : allTargets
 
 if (!skipInstall) await $`bun install --os="*" --cpu="*" @opentui/core@${pkg.dependencies["@opentui/core"]}`
-const appArchive = await buildAppArchive(Script.channel)
+const appArchive = await buildAppArchive(Script.channel, { skipBuild: skipWebUi })
 const appAssetsPlugin: BunPlugin = {
   name: "opencode-app-assets",
   setup(build) {
diff --git a/packages/desktop/scripts/utils.ts b/packages/desktop/scripts/utils.ts
index 920fe7c0dbf..09f1c16e7ce 100644
--- a/packages/desktop/scripts/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/desktop/scripts/utils.ts
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ export async function buildCliToResources(dest = windowsify("resources/opencode-
   const directory = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "opencode-cli-"))
   const target = `cli-${process.platform === "win32" ? "windows" : process.platform}-${process.arch}`
   try {
-    await $`bun ${join(import.meta.dirname, "../../cli/script/build.ts")} --single --skip-install --outdir=${directory}`.env(
+    await $`bun ${join(import.meta.dirname, "../../cli/script/build.ts")} --single --skip-install --skip-web-ui --outdir=${directory}`.env(
       {
         ...process.env,
         OPENCODE_VERSION: `0.0.0-local-${Date.now()}`,