fullstack: independent server and client

[jarjk]

i.e. how to dx serve client without server and server without client

goal

running server and client on a seperate port

tries

Cargo.toml features:

[features]
default = ["web"]
web = ["dioxus/web"]
desktop = ["dioxus/desktop"]
mobile = ["dioxus/mobile"]
server = ["dioxus/server", "dep:tokio"]

main.rs

mod frontend;
mod backend;

fn main() {
    dioxus::logger::initialize_default();

    #[cfg(feature = "server")]
    dioxus::serve(|| async move {
        backend::ensure_env_vars();

        let router = dioxus::server::router(frontend::App);
        Ok(router)
    });

    #[cfg(not(feature = "server"))]
    dioxus::launch(app::App);
}

serving only the server

tried:

• dx serve --no-default-features --server, but it starts the client as well
• cargo r --no-default-features --features server, but it dies with

thread 'main' (1046326) panicked at $HOME/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/dioxus-server-0.7.2/src/server.rs:413:29:
Couldn't read public directory at "$PWD/target/debug/public": No such file or directory (os error 2)
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

supposedly it happens because it would like to serve the client, but can't, right?

how could one avoid requiring an App in the server?

serving only the client

tried:

• dx serve --web, as there's absolutely no server feature enabled here AFAIK, still, it starts the server