fix: simplified development server architecture

meta/dev-server.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import express from 'express'
 import { createServer as createViteServer } from 'vite'
 import { readFile } from 'fs/promises'
 
-import { getDevelopmentRoutes } from './routes.js'
+import { getBuildRoutes } from './routes.js'
 
 async function createServer() {
     const app = express()
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ async function createServer() {
         server: { middlewareMode: 'html' },
     })
 
-    const routes = await getDevelopmentRoutes()
+    const routes = await getBuildRoutes()
 
-    console.log(`Mounting static routes:`)
+    console.log(`mounting static routes...`)
     for (const [route, file] of Object.entries(routes)) {
         const filePath = join('./frontend', file)
         console.log(`- "%s" => %s`, route, filePath)

meta/routes.js

@@ -1,15 +1,9 @@
 import { spawn } from 'child_process'
-import axios from 'axios'
 
 function transformRoutes(entrypoints) {
     return Object.fromEntries(entrypoints.map(({ route, filename }) => [route, filename]))
 }
 
-export async function getDevelopmentRoutes() {
-    const res = await axios.get('http://127.0.0.1:4000/dev/routes')
-    return transformRoutes(res.data)
-}
-
 export async function getBuildRoutes() {
     // Thanks to ChatGPT
     function readCommandOutputAsJSON(command) {
@@ -40,5 +34,6 @@ export async function getBuildRoutes() {
         })
     }
 
-    return transformRoutes(await readCommandOutputAsJSON('go run ./cmd/routes'))
+    console.log('loading build entrypoints...')
+    return transformRoutes(await readCommandOutputAsJSON('go run ./meta/routes'))
 }

meta/routes/main.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"go-vite-kit/backend/routes"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	enc := json.NewEncoder(os.Stdout)
+	enc.SetIndent("", "  ")
+	if err := enc.Encode(routes.HtmlEntrypoints); err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}