Load Assets?

[ryanleesipes]

When I build and open up the index.html in thunderbird.net (for the website), it loads without assets! Is there anyway to fix this?

[ryanleesipes]

Not just assets, I guess it's CSS formatting too.

[Sancus]

That's normal, it's not built with local paths, it's built to be hosted by a web server. I do development in a VM running apache.

I don't think it's worth independently fixing this, should probably be solved with a docker container.

[benbucksch]

Ryan, you can just start Python's "Simple HTTP server", using:

cd <your/directory/with/the/index.html>
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

(for Python version 2. If you have Python 3, it would be python -m http.server 8000 instead.)
and then open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

[Sancus]

Ah yeah good point thanks Ben, I always forget about that thing.

It'll be a little janky because it won't run the language redirect code and stuff but it does indeed load individual pages with assets just fine.

[benbucksch]

Yeah, it's a really simple and useful tool for small stuff. I love it for its simplicity.

[ryanleesipes]

@benbucksch sorry to hit this again, what directory do you run the simple http server in. It still complains about css issues even though I have less installed globally (the specific version outlined in #20) and everything builds without error. I'm clearly doing something wrong, but I can't determine what that is.

[ryanleesipes]

Nevermind, I figured it out, I had to run it in the thunderbird.net directory, I can't believe I didn't try that sooner, I was going into the en-US directory and running it since that's where my index.html file is.