asset server url

[wmertens]

What is it about?

being able

What's the motivation for this proposal?

Problem

So when hosting an app, you have these things to host:

• static assets: best served from a domain without cookies
• rpc service: respond to server$ etc
• SSG responses: best served from rpc domain, due to CORS
• SSR responses: same
• media etc: best served from a service that optimizes for the receiving browser. optionally add transform parameters and/or require temporary token.

So, Qwik needs to know about two servers : the app server and the asset server. The media files should be handled by custom components and Qwik has no role there.

However, since assets URLs are also provided by vite, it will need configuring at the vite level.

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Proposed Solution / Feature

What do you propose?

Vite has an experimental feature https://vite.dev/guide/build.html#advanced-base-options that allows you to change an asset URL at runtime.

Qwik-city could use this to provide an asset server, to be filled in from a q:assets parameter on the container.

In vite.config.mts:

   plugins: [ qwikCity({assetsUrl: 'https://static.mysite.com'}) , ...]

this makes it configure vite to change the asset urls.

We could make it dynamic on top of that, by passing arguments to createQwikCity which would result in a prop on the container that would be used dynamically via some sort of global function.

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Links / References

https://vite.dev/guide/build.html#advanced-base-options