Related plugins

• plugin-react

• plugin-react-swc

• plugin-react-oxc

• plugin-rsc

Describe the bug

If using a hook that is referenced using two times dot-notation, the state will always reset upon saving a file; e.g:

const useTrue = () => {
  return true
}
const obj1 = {
  useTrue,
  obj2: { useTrue },
}

function App() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0)
  
  // will preserve the state
  const t1 = useTrue();
  // will also preserve the state
  const t2 = obj1.useTrue();
  // this will cause the state to always reset
  const t3 = obj1.obj2.useTrue();

  useEffect(() => {
    const interval = setInterval(() => setCount(c => c + 1), 1000);
    return () => { clearInterval(interval); }
  }, []);
  return <>{count}</>
}

It doesn't appear to be an issue in react-plugin-swc

Reproduction

https://github.com/adamschoenemann/vite-hmr-bug

Steps to reproduce

• Use any hook defined inside two levels of nested objects.
• Save the file and save it again: the second save should not reset the state, but it does

System Info

I couldn't get `envinfo` to install (got a 500 from npm, there's a cloudflare outage I think). But here is an `npm ls` from the repro repo:


├── @eslint/js@9.39.1
├── @types/node@24.10.1
├── @types/react-dom@19.2.3
├── @types/react@19.2.7
├── @vitejs/plugin-react@5.1.1
├── babel-plugin-react-compiler@1.0.0
├── eslint-plugin-react-hooks@7.0.1
├── eslint-plugin-react-refresh@0.4.24
├── eslint@9.39.1
├── globals@16.5.0
├── react-dom@19.2.1
├── react@19.2.1
├── typescript-eslint@8.48.1
├── typescript@5.9.3
└── vite@7.2.6

Used Package Manager

npm

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