Prerequisites

• I'm using the latest version
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Reproduction url

https://github.com/intellix/knip-qwik-empty-routes-issue

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Description of the issue

Since 5.86.0 (qwik plugin was introduced)

Was getting this locally and created a repro. We had a lot of libs with this, to get qwikCity working even though they didn't declare routes:

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [qwikVite(), qwikCity({ routesDir: '' })],
});

When you run knip you get an error like this on macOS (and a different directory in linux during CI/CD obviously):

> knip

Analyzing workspace (libs/my-qwik-lib)…
node:internal/modules/run_main:107
    triggerUncaughtException(
    ^

[Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir '/Library/Bluetooth'] {
  errno: -1,
  code: 'EPERM',
  syscall: 'scandir',
  path: '/Library/Bluetooth'
}

Node.js v24.11.1

Not sure if it's a general thing with the qwik plugin or knip in general, but it had me bamboozled for hours wondering what it meant.

Workaround

Change vite.config to this:

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [qwikVite(), qwikCity({ routesDir: '.' })], // Add a dot for the routesDir
});