example of deployment with http server/files

[soundprojects]

Hi,

great library! I am currently creating the front end in Vue JS. Now I am in development and I point the webview to localhost when the Vue JS dev server is on.

But now.. on to production. In the readme it says that local resources only work when using a http server to serve the files. However: how does one embed the files with a rust binary?

And if that is not possible, how can I use include_str! so that I don't get the "Local resource cannot be loaded" errors

Thanks

[green-s]

You could use rust-embed (or includedir or include_dir), or tar/zip your files in your build script and embed with include_bytes!, then traverse/unpack at runtime.

Then you set up the routing of your web server (e.g. actix-web) to resolve to the embedded files. If using rust-embed you call get(path) on the generated struct. You could use mime_guess to set the content type.

It's probably only worth doing this for release builds since include_* macros can significantly increase compile times. AFAIK that's a compiler bug that may be fixed but for now I'm not sure there's much you can do apart from appending the files to the binary somehow.

[passy]

Depending on how many resources you have, you may be able to get away with just inlining them manually. In my case I could just use base64 data URIs and include_str! the HTML file. But if you require a build step for your JS, @green-s's option sounds great.