Serving files

Boot-http

• https://github.com/pandeiro/boot-http
• Recommended solution is to serve the files directly from classpath: (serve)
  • (it is the default option)
• No need to use target task
• Why this works:
  • Boot tasks write resulting files to their temp dirs
  • Task commits the files to fileset
  • Boot adds the files to classpath
• Very short version of why this is good idea:
  • The state of target directory is unknown when Boot is running. It is mainly intended to be used to write build artifacts (JARs).
  • Target directory is shared state, when using it you can't run several processes using the same dir. Classpath is separate for each process.

Ring

Use resource-handler / Compojure resources route to serve files from classpath.

https://github.com/Deraen/saapas/blob/master/src/clj/backend/server.clj#L14-L15

Take care of the classpath prefix (:root) when or if you are using the same code in production. The classpath probably contains files you don't want to be globally accessible.