I have reproduced the issue on the latest CLI version. Yes, I am on the latest version I have searched existing posts and this report is not a duplicate. Yes, this isn’t a duplicate In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem? Extension Expected behavior The recursive scanner should st…

@muchisx Thanks for the thorough report with the verbose output. We’re looking into potential solutions and will follow up here once we have more to share.

Same here, it’s a bit annoying!

Hi! I’m working in a fix to exclude files from other directories. Could you please try with this snapshot to see if it helps? @shopify/cli@0.0.0-snapshot-20260608100421

[image] gonzaloriestra: @shopify/cli@0.0.0-snapshot-20260608100421 I did a quick test this morning and extensions dev preview started for me. [image] Can any Shopify staff tell us why extensions are failing dev preview? Shopify CLI and Libraries Might i…

Hi @gonzaloriestra thanks for sending this snapshot! For me it still seems to indefinitely loop through files that arent even’t in use of the extension (commented out import). And also seems to crawl type imports, which maybe it should skip?

With the help of AI I applied a package patch to the minified code in the meantime, this helps for now. You can ask prompt AI with: Add "postinstall": "patch-package" in package.json and a patches/@shopify+cli+4.1.0.patch file temporarily fixing this issue: Follow this task: # Task: Patch in…

Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I’ve prepared another snapshot that uses tsconfig.json files if present and skips type-only imports.: shopify/cli@0.0.0-snapshot-20260610101222 If it doesn’t work, could you please share privately a verbose log?

Hi @gonzaloriestra , Thank you!! With shopify/cli@0.0.0-snapshot-20260610101222 I still get the issue, I just sent you an email with details

In case anyone else has the same problem, this snapshot seems to work well: @shopify/cli@0.0.0-snapshot-20260611111520 I’m working to include it in the next CLI release. @muchisx thanks again for your help!

[CLI] Type generation for UI extensions reads too many files: restrict scanner to tsconfig.include or TOML entry

Shopify CLI and Libraries

keiraarts June 8, 2026, 2:51pm 6

I did a quick test this morning and extensions dev preview started for me.

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[CLI] Type generation for UI extensions reads too many files: restrict scanner to tsconfig.include or TOML entry

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