Add option to embed frontend/dist in release build

[jakobsack]

Feature Request

On your website you claim that Loco has a "one file deployment", but when using the API + frontend option then the frontend is not embedded in the binary. Thus, you always have to deploy the folder dist/frontend next to your binary.

Please add an option to embed the frontend files in the binary. Preferably, this should be implemented in a middleware. There should be a feature flag to enable this behaviour.

Workaround

In my own app I used rust-embed in a controller to embed the files. You find an example code in Discussion #1255 .

Existing implementations

Here is a list of libraries I've found when implementing my workaround:

• rust-embed, especially the example axum-spa
• axum-embed
• axum-embed-files

[kaplanelad]

@jakobsack This is a good idea, thanks