Serve a Uno-App from an ASP.Net Core-App

[TopperDEL]

I have an existing ASP.Net Core WebAPI where I now want to serve a Uno-App from a specific url. This should be possible, if I understand it right.

So I have my WebAPI-project. I would create a Uno-app in another folder next to it and add the Uno-Head to my existing solution. How could I now say "serve my Uno-app from www.mywebapi.com/myUnoApp/". Is this possible?

[jeromelaban]

You can use the server option in the template: https://platform.uno/docs/articles/getting-started/wizard/using-wizard.html#server.

[TopperDEL]

Oh wait, I see what you mean. I should be able to add this to my existing WebAPI-project. Will try...

[TopperDEL]

Hm, I cannot add an existing Uno-App to my solution or to a newly created empty solution. "The provided SDK 'Uno.Sdk' hasn't been found".

[TopperDEL]

Ah, global.json needs to be there. Obviously. It's getting late here... :)

[jeromelaban]

That's right for now that's the configuration, but it can be altered to work differently. You'll also need to configure the app this way: https://platform.uno/docs/articles/external/uno.wasm.bootstrap/doc/features-deep-linking.html.

[TopperDEL]

It's working like a charm!

So basically I had to do these steps to add the Uno-App to my existing WebAPI-project:

1. Add a global.json to the root-folder with this content:

{
  "msbuild-sdks": {
    "Uno.Sdk": "5.2.132"
  }
}

2. Add the following to Directory.Packages.props:

<ItemGroup Condition="$(UsingUnoSdk) != 'true'">
    <PackageVersion Include="Uno.Wasm.Bootstrap.Server" Version="8.0.14" />
  </ItemGroup>

3. Add the Uno-Head to the existing WebAPI-solution.
4. Add a project reference to the existing WebAPI-project referencing the Uno-Head. The reference has to be adjusted in the *.csproj like this:

<ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\UnoServerTest\UnoServerTest.csproj"
                      SetTargetFramework="TargetFramework=net8.0-browserwasm"
                      ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" />
  </ItemGroup>

5. Setup the webAPI-project to serve Uno in the Program.cs:

app.UseUnoFrameworkFiles();
app.MapFallbackToFile("index.html");

What I do not know yet: how could I define a "folder" for my app. Currently it is served if no other route is being hit (hence the MapFallback). And it would be nice to know if I could serve multiple Uno-projects from one WebAPI-project (like /Admin/ is one, /Web/ is another and so on).