Treat non page file as non route under app dir

packages/next/server/dev/next-dev-server.ts

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ import { eventCliSession } from '../../telemetry/events'
 import { Telemetry } from '../../telemetry/storage'
 import { setGlobal } from '../../trace'
 import HotReloader from './hot-reloader'
-import { findPageFile } from '../lib/find-page-file'
+import { findPageFile, isLayoutsLeafPage } from '../lib/find-page-file'
 import { getNodeOptionsWithoutInspect } from '../lib/utils'
 import {
   UnwrapPromise,
@@ -387,6 +387,10 @@ export default class DevServer extends Server {
           })
 
           if (isAppPath) {
+            if (!isLayoutsLeafPage(fileName)) {
+              continue
+            }
+
             const originalPageName = pageName
             pageName = normalizeAppPath(pageName) || '/'
             appPaths[pageName] = originalPageName

packages/next/server/lib/find-page-file.ts

@@ -60,3 +60,11 @@ export async function findPageFile(
 
   return existingPath
 }
+
+// Determine if the file is leaf node page file under layouts,
+// They filename should start with 'page', it can be either shared,
+// client or server components with allowed page file extension.
+// e.g. page.js, page.server.js, page.client.tsx, etc.
+export function isLayoutsLeafPage(filePath: string) {
+  return /[\\/]?page\.((server|client)\.?)?[jt]sx?$/.test(filePath)
+}

test/e2e/app-dir/app/app/catch-all/[...slug]/components/widget.js

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+// components under catch-all should not throw errors
+export default () => <p id="widget">widget</p>

test/e2e/app-dir/app/app/catch-all/[...slug]/page.server.js

@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
+import Widget from './components/widget'
+
 export function getServerSideProps({ params }) {
   return { props: { params } }
 }
 
 export default function Page({ params }) {
   return (
-    <h1 id="text" data-params={params.slug.join('/') ?? ''}>
-      hello from /catch-all/{params.slug.join('/')}
-    </h1>
+    <>
+      <h1 id="text" data-params={params.slug.join('/') ?? ''}>
+        hello from /catch-all/{params.slug.join('/')}
+      </h1>
+      <Widget />
+    </>
   )
 }

test/e2e/app-dir/index.test.ts

@@ -582,6 +582,10 @@ describe('app dir', () => {
           const html = await renderViaHTTP(next.url, `/catch-all/${route}`)
           const $ = cheerio.load(html)
           expect($('#text').attr('data-params')).toBe(route)
+
+          // Components under catch-all should not be treated as route that errors during build.
+          // They should be rendered properly when imported in page route.
+          expect($('#widget').text()).toBe('widget')
         })
 
         it('should handle required segments root as not found', async () => {

test/unit/find-page-file.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 /* eslint-env jest */
-import { findPageFile } from 'next/dist/server/lib/find-page-file'
+import {
+  findPageFile,
+  isLayoutsLeafPage,
+} from 'next/dist/server/lib/find-page-file'
 import { normalizePagePath } from 'next/dist/shared/lib/page-path/normalize-page-path'
 
 import { join } from 'path'
@@ -26,3 +29,18 @@ describe('findPageFile', () => {
     expect(result).toMatch(/^[\\/]prefered\.js/)
   })
 })
+
+describe('isLayoutsLeafPage', () => {
+  it('should determine either server or client component page file as leaf node page', () => {
+    expect(isLayoutsLeafPage('page.js')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isLayoutsLeafPage('./page.server.js')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isLayoutsLeafPage('./page.server.jsx')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isLayoutsLeafPage('./page.client.ts')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isLayoutsLeafPage('./page.client.tsx')).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('should determine other files under layout routes as non leaf node', () => {
+    expect(isLayoutsLeafPage('./page.component.jsx')).toBe(false)
+    expect(isLayoutsLeafPage('layout.js')).toBe(false)
+  })
+})