mint build accidentally uses non relative path on Ubuntu.

[Camto]

I used mint build and the generated HTML file doesn't work locally because it uses <script src="/index.js"></script> (correct: <script src="./index.js"></script>) which makes the computer think I want a file index.js from the top of the drive. I know mint start can work around that but it would be nice to be able to test out mint build locally.

[gdotdesign]

It's a two fold thing:

1. if deployed on a web server the URL needs to be absolute for the pages of an SPA to work. Usually every URL resolves the index.html which for an URL like this /users/:id would means that it needs to resolve the index.js from location that it reaches which is an absolute path.
2. If you want to test it locally or build a Chrome or Electron application then you would need relative path, but in this case reloading a page that's on a deeper path would automatically fail.

I'm not against a configuration option or a command line flag for which controls whether the URLs are absolute or relative.

[brycefisher]

@gdotdesign I'd love to have the option to make all paths relative via configuration option! Is that still on the table?

[gdotdesign]

It was implemented when this issue was closed: mint build --relative which makes all paths in the index.html relative.

[brycefisher]

Ah! Thank you so much.