Allow using pear with an arbitrary index.html

[knownasilya]

I wanted to get pear running with Ember.JS, which deposits its built index.html inside of dist/index.html. I wasn't able to get it to work due to path issues since pear assumed dist was part of the path or something like that.

[mafintosh]

do you mean change the root of the requests? it just mounts the folder you stage as /, simple as that. If you wanna change the entrypoint just update the main field in package.json

[knownasilya]

Here's a reproduction: https://github.com/knownasilya/pear-rss

Run npm run build and npm run dev. Note I see this in pear devtools after a cmd+r:

[davidmarkclements]

@knownasilya change you dev script to pear run -d dist

explained: pear dev is pear run -d . pear run <entypoint> within a pear project runs from that entrypoint, pear run dist should run dist/index.html if dist has also has a package.json (with main field omitted or set to index.html) pear run -d dist should do in dev mode. pear dev is soon to be deprecated for pear run - probably in the release after this coming one

[knownasilya]

Similar response

My guess is because /dist is in the path (if you notice in the devtools title bar) and this prevents items in dist/ from being served at /.

@davidmarkclements

I confirmed the above, by changing the paths manually (I could fix this from the Ember side). An additional issue is that the index is served as /dist/index.html and not as /dist/, which I don't think I can fix from the Ember side (this messes with the routing).

If the index could be served at / that would solve all the things though.

[davidmarkclements]

@knownasilya if dist doesn't have a package.json then it's pear run dist/index.html - re the internal server error, run pear sidecar and then open your app with pear run, you may be able to see an error stack

[knownasilya]

Seeing this in sidecar

(assuming it errors for one thing and then stops there)

The devtools still looks the same as above.

[davidmarkclements]

does the dist folder contain ember-cli-live-reload.js? if not that's the issue - ember might be doing something weird with paths? dist folder needs to be fully self contained, not sure why it would load dev tooling like that anyway?

[knownasilya]

That one was actually not there (another issue, but not related to this). Deleting that gives me: Unknown Server Error Error: Not Found: "/assets/prss.css"

I updated the repo above with the dist dir: https://github.com/knownasilya/pear-rss so you can see what is there

[davidmarkclements]

@knownasilya can you try with latest Pear v0.4444.pqbzjhqyonxprx8hghxexnmctw75mr91ewqw5dxe1zmntfyaddqy - if still no dice then write down the exact commands to run to reproduce, from cloning the repo etc on and I'll take a look at debugging it

[d61b292b-2859-4ed6-8c7c-b7397ad8e351]

I ran into a similar issue. My main entry point in package.json is /dist/index.html

This works fine in dev mode. But when staging/releasing/seeding it seems to ignore that path and appears to use ./index.html

What worked was copying the contents of the dist folder and the package.json into a new folder