khoj/src/interface/web/README.md
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Add developer support for using next.js to serve generated static files (#814)
To improve the developer experience for front-end development, we're migrating to Next.js. In order to do this migration page-by-page, we're using static site generation via Next.js. This also helps us avoid making cross site requests from front-end to back-end for the time being, while giving a ramp to separating out server and client if needed for scale down the road.

Dev instructions for using the next.js setup are in the added README.

This adds scaffolding for including the built files in the python package as well as the docker images. Docker setup has been tested locally. In order to verify the build is working as expected, we can navigate to the {khoj_host}:42110/experimental and verify that the experiment page comes up.

This setup works with serving static files included in the src/interface/web folder from the Django app. The key bit for understanding the setup is in the yarn export command in package.json.
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This is a Next.js project.

Getting Started

First, install the dependencies:

yarn install

In case you run into any dependency linking issues, you can try running:

yarn add next

Run the development server:

yarn dev

Make sure the rewrites in next.config.mjs are set up correctly for your environment. The rewrites are used to proxy requests to the API server.

    rewrites: async () => {
        return [
            {
                source: '/api/:path*',
                destination: 'http://localhost:42110/api/:path*',
            },
        ];
    },

The destination should be the URL of the API server.

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

You can start editing the page by modifying any of the .tsx pages. The page auto-updates as you edit the file.

Testing built files

We've setup a utility command for building and serving the built files. This is useful for testing the production build locally.

  1. Exporting code To build the files once and serve them, run:
yarn export

If you're using Windows:

yarn windowsexport
  1. Continuously building code

To keep building the files and serving them, run:

yarn watch

If you're using Windows:

yarn windowswatch

Now you should be able to load your custom pages from the Khoj app at http://localhost:42110/. To server any of the built files, you should update the routes in the web_client.py like so, where new_file is the new page you've added in this repo:

@web_client.post("/new_route", response_class=FileResponse)
@requires(["authenticated"], redirect="login_page")
def index_post(request: Request):

    return templates.TemplateResponse(
        "new_file/index.html",
        context={
            "request": request,
        },
    )

Learn More

To learn more about Next.js, take a look at the following resources:

You can check out the Next.js GitHub repository - your feedback and contributions are welcome!