Single page application (SPA) example

[frederikhors]

I'm having a bit of difficulty using your example (with axum in this case) to host a single page application (SPA).

I have no trouble without rust-embed using a single line of code with axum (from here):

app.fallback(get_service(ServeDir::new("./app/static")).handle_error(error_handler))

But I don't understand how to do with rust-embed.

The need is that every path typed by the user (and that is not an existent file such as .js or .css which obviously must be downloaded by the browser) leads to the "index.html" file in the root of my static dir.

If I use your example code I can see the route:

.route("/dist/*file", static_handler.into_service())

which has /dist/*file and I don't need that /dist becasue the index.html calls many files with custom paths, such as /_works, menu, images.

If I remove the dist part I get this error:

thread 'main' panicked at 'Invalid route: insertion failed due to conflict with previously registered route: /index.html'

Can you help me understand?

If I fix this I can create a PR for future people to come!

I hope my problem is clear. Sorry if is not.

[AzureMarker]

The need is that every path typed by the user (and that is not an existent file such as .js or .css which obviously must be downloaded by the browser) leads to the "index.html" file in the root of my static dir.

You can call RustEmbed::get and if the result is None then fall back to returning the index.html file.

I did this a while ago with an old project: https://github.com/AzureMarker/pihole-api/blob/bc7819bb4186e4cbd04e881920a925619537bae5/src/routes/web.rs#L46

[frederikhors]

@AzureMarker thank you very much!

I'm starting with a small example here: https://github.com/frederikhors/rust-embed-spa.

I'm having trouble refactoring. I'll write in a few what I think is wrong.

[frederikhors]

I opened #184.