# Embedded frontend

The frontend under `static/` is embedded into the executable at compile time.
No separate web root or static-file bind mount is required.

It includes URL creation and lookup, short-link metadata, copy and delete
actions, API-key administration, sorting, pagination, theme selection, and
locally hosted fonts. Relative asset URLs and the browser-derived API prefix
allow the same files to work at either a subdomain root or a nested path.

The frontend and static assets are always available. The former `production`
toggle was removed because disabling embedded assets conflicts with ushort's
self-contained deployment model. Old configuration files containing that key
remain loadable; its value is ignored.

The nginx examples apply `no-store` to the HTML entry point and `no-cache` to
static assets. Embedded static requests do not consume the API rate-limit
quota.

Automated tests compare every embedded asset with its source file byte for
byte. See [Development, testing, and releases](development.md).