Option to embedding frontend application

[felipesere]

👋 I know there is some discussion about picking the right frontend framework, but I wanted to side-step it and talk about
embedding the files directly into my final binary.
While I'm happy to have external config to my binary, I consider the frontend to be a tight part of it and I'd like to not have to think about how to ship it along my app. Docker technically helps, but there are also nice crates such as rust-embed that make producing a single binary easier.

At least so I thought!
At the moment, loco tightly wraps the axum::Router and I can't add a fallback_route of my own.
The only path is through the static asset middleware...

Is there interest in maybe swapping how static assets are handled (i.e. embedding them) or opening up this avenue for customization (i.e. access the underlying axum::Router?

[jondot]

Did you check the src/app.rs hook integrations? It allows you to "plug into" various stages of an app's lifecycle and customize components. In after_routes you have access to a live Axum Router, so you can customize and add stuff to it.

[felipesere]

Oh sweet! No I had not looked at after_routes :)