Dev server crash

[mattkrins]

For some reason my vite dev server is crashing over the weekend and I have no idea why.
During the week while i work on the project I get no errors (outside of what i create in code), but on the weekend while nobody is using it and there are no scripts doing anything, suddenly at a seemingly random time, vite crashes with the terminal output:

[0] files in the public directory are served at the root path.
[0] Instead of /public/, use /.
[0] 9:27:59 pm [vite] Internal server error: URI malformed
[0]       at decodeURI (< anonymous>)

It spams
Internal server error: URI malformed
a ton, then

[0] Instead of /public/index.php?s=admin/\think\app/invokefunction&function=call_user_func_array&vars[0]=file_get_contents&vars[1][]=index.php, use /index.php?s=admin/\think\app/invokefunction&function=call_user_func_array&vars[0]=file_get_contents&vars[1][]=index.php.

a ton, then

[vite] Internal server error: Failed to resolve entry for package ...
/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-df561101.js:28691:11)

and finally:

[0] files in the public directory are served at the root path.
[0] Instead of /public/proxy.php?url=<script>alert('clarkconnect_url_xss.nasl')<%2fscript>, use /proxy.php?url=<script>alert('clarkconnect_url_xss.nasl')<%2fscript>.

I come back to my project on Monday and the server has crashed with that output.

Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

[mattkrins]

For any other peruses, this was caused by a vulnerability scanner on the network trying to analyze the server with an XSS attack.
It tries to access /public/index.php (which of course does not exist on a node app) and vite freaks out and crashes.