Allow for the serving of the public directory fixes #852

generators/newapp/templates/actions/app.go.tmpl

@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ func App() *buffalo.App {
     app.GET("/", HomeHandler)
 
     {{ if .opts.AsWeb -}}
-    app.ServeFiles("/assets", assetsBox)
+    // serve files from the public directory:
+    app.ServeFiles("/", assetsBox)
     {{ end -}}
   }
 

generators/newapp/templates/actions/render.go.tmpl

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 
 var r *render.Engine
 {{ if .opts.AsWeb -}}
-var assetsBox = packr.NewBox("../public/assets")
+var assetsBox = packr.NewBox("../public")
 {{ end -}}
 
 func init() {

generators/newapp/templates/public/robots.txt.tmpl

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /

render/template.go

@@ -140,7 +140,10 @@ func (s templateRenderer) assetPath(file string) (string, error) {
 		manifest, err := s.AssetsBox.MustString("manifest.json")
 
 		if err != nil {
-			return assetPathFor(file), nil
+			manifest, err = s.AssetsBox.MustString("assets/manifest.json")
+			if err != nil {
+				return assetPathFor(file), nil
+			}
 		}
 
 		err = loadManifest(manifest)

router.go

@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ package buffalo
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
+	"os"
 	"path"
 	"reflect"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/markbates/inflect"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
 // GET maps an HTTP "GET" request to the path and the specified handler.
@@ -83,7 +85,20 @@ func (a *App) Mount(p string, h http.Handler) {
 */
 func (a *App) ServeFiles(p string, root http.FileSystem) {
 	path := path.Join(a.Prefix, p)
-	a.router.PathPrefix(path).Handler(http.StripPrefix(path, http.FileServer(root)))
+	a.router.PathPrefix(path).Handler(http.StripPrefix(path, a.fileServer(root)))
+}
+
+func (a *App) fileServer(fs http.FileSystem) http.Handler {
+	fsh := http.FileServer(fs)
+	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		_, err := fs.Open(path.Clean(r.URL.Path))
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			eh := a.ErrorHandlers.Get(404)
+			eh(404, errors.Errorf("could not find %s", r.URL.Path), a.newContext(RouteInfo{}, w, r))
+			return
+		}
+		fsh.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+	})
 }
 
 // Resource maps an implementation of the Resource interface