`npm run sync` in web/ copies the build output (web/dist, from npm run build)
to internal/frontend/dist, which the binary embeds. Go can't embed from
outside the package's directory (web/ is also outside the Go module), hence
the copy. Only dist/.gitkeep is committed, so a fresh clone still compiles,
and a binary built without syncing first serves no frontend.
job-search serve serves server.frontend.dir if it is set, or else the
embedded build, or warns that there is no frontend. scripts/build.sh builds
and syncs the frontend before building, running npm ci first for a release
or when web/node_modules is missing.
internal/frontend serves a Vite build from an fs.FS: hashed files under
/assets/ are cached for a year, HTML and other files get no-cache, ETags are
computed (and cached for a build that can't change), precompressed variants
are served when the client accepts them, and a path without an extension
falls back to index.html for client-side routes. Only GET and HEAD are
allowed.
server.WithFrontend serves it for every path outside /api and /ws, behind
compression and the frontend group's hooks. job-search serve passes the
directory in server.frontend.dir, checked for an index.html at start; empty
means no frontend. Its option building moved into serverOptions, with the
access log.
bwilliams