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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.