diff --git a/packages/react/src/plugin-pages.ts b/packages/react/src/plugin-pages.ts
index c87555ace..4b21061cc 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/plugin-pages.ts
+++ b/packages/react/src/plugin-pages.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { dirname, relative, resolve } from 'pathslash';
 import type { Plugin } from 'vite';
 import {
@@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ const WORKER_ENVIRONMENT_NAME = 'void_worker';
 const REACT_DEDUPE = ['react', 'react-dom'];
 const REACT_OPTIMIZE_DEPS = ['react', 'react/jsx-runtime', 'react/jsx-dev-runtime', 'react-dom'];
 const CLIENT_OPTIMIZE_DEPS = [...REACT_OPTIMIZE_DEPS, 'react-dom/client'];
-const WORKER_OPTIMIZE_DEPS = [...REACT_OPTIMIZE_DEPS, 'react-dom/server', 'void/live/client'];
+const WORKER_OPTIMIZE_DEPS = [...REACT_OPTIMIZE_DEPS, 'react-dom/server'];
+const NODE_MODULES_SEGMENT = /[\\/]node_modules[\\/]/;
 
 // SSR HTML bypasses transformIndexHtml, so @vitejs/plugin-react cannot inject
 // its Fast Refresh preamble. Without it, the dev client entry fails to load.
@@ -73,7 +75,10 @@ export function pagesPlugin(pagesDir: string, options?: PagesPluginOptions): Plu
             // from Vite's dep optimizer. void/pages-client and
             // void/pages-prefetch are reached only through virtual entries and
             // the excluded @void/react, so the scanner cannot see them.
-            include: [...CLIENT_OPTIMIZE_DEPS, 'void/pages-client', 'void/pages-prefetch'],
+            include: [
+              ...CLIENT_OPTIMIZE_DEPS,
+              ...installedDependencies(['void/pages-client', 'void/pages-prefetch']),
+            ],
           },
           ssr: {
             optimizeDeps: {
@@ -89,7 +94,7 @@ export function pagesPlugin(pagesDir: string, options?: PagesPluginOptions): Plu
                 // SSR is already rendering, the program reload can mix React
                 // and react-dom/server from different optimized-dep hashes.
                 entries: [pagesOptimizeEntries],
-                include: WORKER_OPTIMIZE_DEPS,
+                include: [...WORKER_OPTIMIZE_DEPS, ...installedDependencies(['void/live/client'])],
               },
             },
           },
@@ -117,6 +122,22 @@ export function pagesPlugin(pagesDir: string, options?: PagesPluginOptions): Plu
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Keeps the specifiers that resolve into `node_modules`. Vite serves a linked
+ * package, such as `void` in a workspace, as source unless
+ * `optimizeDeps.include` lists it. A listed linked package is pre-bundled into
+ * a cache keyed by the lockfile and config rather than the package's files, so
+ * dev would keep serving that copy after the package is rebuilt. A client built
+ * against the new exports then fails to load and never hydrates.
+ */
+export function installedDependencies(
+  specifiers: ReadonlyArray<string>,
+  resolveFile: (specifier: string) => string = (specifier) =>
+    fileURLToPath(import.meta.resolve(specifier)),
+): Array<string> {
+  return specifiers.filter((specifier) => NODE_MODULES_SEGMENT.test(resolveFile(specifier)));
+}
+
 function clientOptimizeEntries(
   scan: PageScanResult | null,
   pagesDir: string,
diff --git a/packages/react/test/unit/plugin-pages.test.ts b/packages/react/test/unit/plugin-pages.test.ts
index ef4c5a2ca..58a6767aa 100644
--- a/packages/react/test/unit/plugin-pages.test.ts
+++ b/packages/react/test/unit/plugin-pages.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { mkdirSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vite-plus/test';
-import { pagesPlugin } from '../../src/plugin-pages.ts';
+import { installedDependencies, pagesPlugin } from '../../src/plugin-pages.ts';
 
 const TMP = join(import.meta.dirname, '__tmp_pages_plugin__');
 const PAGES_DIR = join(TMP, 'pages');
@@ -197,6 +197,22 @@ describe('pagesPlugin build config', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('installedDependencies', () => {
+  it('keeps entries installed in node_modules and drops linked workspace entries', () => {
+    const files: Record<string, string> = {
+      'void/pages-client':
+        '/app/node_modules/.pnpm/void@1.6.2/node_modules/void/dist/pages/client.mjs',
+      'void/pages-prefetch': 'C:\\app\\node_modules\\void\\dist\\pages\\prefetch.mjs',
+      'void/live/client': '/repo/packages/void/dist/runtime/live-client.mjs',
+    };
+
+    expect(installedDependencies(Object.keys(files), (specifier) => files[specifier]!)).toEqual([
+      'void/pages-client',
+      'void/pages-prefetch',
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('pagesPlugin dev config', () => {
   afterEach(() => {
     rmSync(TMP, { recursive: true, force: true });
@@ -209,19 +225,14 @@ describe('pagesPlugin dev config', () => {
     expect(config).toMatchObject({
       optimizeDeps: {
         entries: ['pages/index.tsx'],
-        include: expect.arrayContaining(['void/pages-client', 'void/pages-prefetch']),
+        include: expect.arrayContaining(['react', 'react-dom/client']),
       },
       environments: {
         void_worker: {
           optimizeDeps: {
             exclude: ['@void/react'],
             entries: ['pages/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}'],
-            include: expect.arrayContaining([
-              'react',
-              'react-dom',
-              'react-dom/server',
-              'void/live/client',
-            ]),
+            include: expect.arrayContaining(['react', 'react-dom', 'react-dom/server']),
           },
         },
       },
@@ -287,6 +298,19 @@ describe('pagesPlugin dev config', () => {
     expect((config.optimizeDeps as { entries: Array<string> }).entries).toHaveLength(2);
   });
 
+  it('serves the workspace-linked void as source instead of pre-bundling it', async () => {
+    // This repository links void from packages/void, so a pre-bundled copy would
+    // outlive the next void build.
+    const config = (await loadServeConfig()) as {
+      optimizeDeps: { include: Array<string> };
+      environments: { void_worker: { optimizeDeps: { include: Array<string> } } };
+    };
+
+    expect(config.optimizeDeps.include).not.toContain('void/pages-client');
+    expect(config.optimizeDeps.include).not.toContain('void/pages-prefetch');
+    expect(config.environments.void_worker.optimizeDeps.include).not.toContain('void/live/client');
+  });
+
   it('includes only the React entry points needed by each environment', async () => {
     const config = (await loadServeConfig()) as {
       optimizeDeps: { include: Array<string> };