PublishWithContainerFiles + ASP.NET Core Static Assets
- Dominant language
- C#
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Description
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the problem.
`PublishWithContainerFiles` (with eg. `AddViteApp` for the "[Static frontend served by a backend](https://aspire.dev/deployment/javascript-apps/#static-frontend-served-by-a-backend)"), copies files after the backend build has completed.
This means that ASP.NET Core's "[Static Asset](https://learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/fundamentals/static-files)" build time compression and fingerprinting doesn't include those files.
The means my static assets don't have etags and aren't compressed unless I do something (I haven't worked out exactly what yet). This should work out of the box.
### Describe the solution you'd like
Simplest would be to delay the backend build until after the front end files are copied. Not ideal.
Better would be for the fingerprinting and compression process to run as part of the copy to the container image process. Alternatively add the right dependencies to the backend build so that it waits if needed and everything continues in parallel if possible.
Maybe at least add some docs.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing how PublishWithContainerFiles and AddViteApp copy frontend files relative to the ASP.NET Core build. Determine where static-asset compression and fingerprinting are invoked, then validate that the copied assets receive the same processing and that the container output includes compressed, fingerprinted files; add documentation if implementation is not feasible.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp, docker
- Domain
- backend, build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100