2 files changed, 32 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/frontend/dist/index.html b/frontend/dist/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5cdba0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/dist/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<html>
+    <head>
+        <title>This file will be replaced by the frontend build process</title>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <h5>This file will be replaced by the frontend build process</h5>
+       
+    </body>
+</html>
+\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/frontend/handler.go b/frontend/handler.go
index 87ae17c..cedd505 100644
--- a/frontend/handler.go
+++ b/frontend/handler.go
@@ -23,15 +23,15 @@ func NewHandler(config *config.Config) *Handler {
 }
 
 func Routes(router *gin.Engine, h *Handler) {
+	// this whole logic is walkaround for serving frontend files
+	// TODO: figure out better way to improve it. main issue i run into is failing over to index.html when file does not exist
+
 	if h.ServeFrontend {
+		// if file exists in dist folder, serve it
 		router.Use(staticMiddleware("dist"))
-		router.Static("/assets", "dist/assets")
+		// if file does not exist in dist folder fallback to index.html
+		router.NoRoute(staticMiddlewareNoRoute("dist"))
 
-		// Gzip compression middleware
-		router.Group("/assets").Use(func(c *gin.Context) {
-			c.Header("Cache-Control", "max-age=31536000, immutable")
-			c.Next()
-		})
 	}
 
 }
@@ -40,7 +40,24 @@ func staticMiddleware(root string) gin.HandlerFunc {
 	fileServer := http.FileServer(getFileSystem(root))
 
 	return func(c *gin.Context) {
+		_, err := fs.Stat(embeddedFiles, "dist"+c.Request.URL.Path)
+		if err != nil {
+			c.Next()
+			return
+		}
 		fileServer.ServeHTTP(c.Writer, c.Request)
+
+	}
+}
+func staticMiddlewareNoRoute(root string) gin.HandlerFunc {
+	fileServer := http.FileServer(getFileSystem(root))
+
+	// always serve index.html for any route does not match:
+	return func(c *gin.Context) {
+		// Rewrite all requests to serve index.html
+		c.Request.URL.Path = "/"
+		fileServer.ServeHTTP(c.Writer, c.Request)
+
 	}
 }