Building my App

[becky112358]

Hello and thank you for this wonderful crate :)

I want to use Leptos to build an App which I can run on one computer and access from others. I don't want to install Rust on the computer which hosts the App.

Amongst other things, what I have tried is:
Clone https://github.com/leptos-rs/start-axum

Run cargo leptos watch
Open http://127.0.0.1:3000/
The website loads and is interactive 👍

Run cargo leptos build
Double click on the target/release/....exe generated exe
Open http://127.0.0.1:3000/
The website loads but is not interactive
Copy the target/release/....exe generated exe to sit next to, and then inside, target/site
Double click on that generated and copied exe
The website is still not interactive

Apologies because I have a feeling my question is both obvious and documented, but I have tried many things and searched many places and found no answers. Thank you :)

[becky112358]

PS If I've misunderstood and what I'm trying to do is not possible, I would also be grateful for this information so that I can stop trying to find a non-existent answer :)

[gbj]

What you're doing is definitely possible and is likely just the result of incorrect relative paths in whatever part of your server is serving the static files (JS/WASM) from target/site relative to the binary. Presumably you're getting 404s on the JS/WASM file currently?

You probably just need to set the LEPTOS_SITE_ROOT directory appropriately. For example on my mac:

cargo leptos build
cd target/release
cp {name of the binary} ../site
cd ../site
LEPTOS_SITE_ROOT="." ./{name of binary}

works fine

[becky112358]

Thank you thank you thank you! This was both motivating and helpful. :D

In the start-axum example, in Cargo.toml, there is a line:
site-root = "target/site"
The comment states that this is where output will be generated, but I guess it is also where the application then looks for said output?

So in this particular case, in addition to your solution, another solution is to copy the exe to one directory above target and run it from there.

[becky112358]

Firstly a reminder for anyone asking such a beginner question as me:
Open the browser development tools and see what errors there are in the console tab.

Specifically for the "start-axum" example, copying the generated exe to the directory above target and running it from there works.