fix: simplified development server architecture

README.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Minimal boilerplate project for a Golang server using [Fiber](https://github.com
 
         A very important file is `backend/routes/router.go` that contains the `HtmlEntrypoints` variable that is used both by the backend and ViteJS to mount HTML entrypoints. 
         
-        When building the frontend ViteJS will call `go run ./cmd/routes` to read the content of this variabile, while during development a special route called `/dev/routes` gets mounted on the backend server and this lets Vite add all necessary entrypoints to the dev server.
+        When building the frontend ViteJS will call `go run ./cmd/routes` to read the content of this variabile. This is also used while developing to let Vite know add all necessary entrypoints to the dev server.
 
 ## Usage
 

cmd/server/main.go

@@ -44,10 +44,6 @@ func main() {
 	app.Route("/api", router.Api)
 
 	if strings.HasPrefix(config.Mode, "dev") {
-		app.Get("/dev/routes", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
-			return c.JSON(routes.HtmlEntrypoints)
-		})
-
 		setupDevServer()
 	}
 

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'))
 }

vite.config.js

@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
-import { getBuildRoutes, getDevelopmentRoutes } from './meta/routes.js'
+import { getBuildRoutes } from './meta/routes.js'
 
 import { join } from 'path'
 
-export default defineConfig(async config => {
+export default defineConfig(async () => {
-    const routes = config.command === 'build' ? await getBuildRoutes() : await getDevelopmentRoutes()
+    const routes = await getBuildRoutes()
+    console.log('html entrypoints:')
+    for (const [route, filename] of Object.entries(routes)) {
+        console.log(`- "${route}" => ${filename}`)
+    }
+    console.log()
+
     const entryPoints = Object.values(routes)
-    console.log('Found entrypoints:', entryPoints)
 
     return {
         root: './frontend',