prpl-server giving Not found 404 errors on fetched local resource

[jconlon]

Problem fetching local files when previewing prpl-server

Context

• This worked ok during development while using npm start.
• Using the typescript template for my PWA.

Setup

• Data files are in data/ and data/schema directories in my project. For Example: data/schema/GenericEntity.avsc
• Modified polymer.json by adding: "sources": [ "data/**/*",
• After Building prpl-server with: npm run build (I see the files were added to the server bundles. Example server/build/es5-bundled/data/schema/GenericEntity.avsc

  Problem

  When I preview the prpl-server with: npm run serve and manually test the page that fetches this data file, I get 404 Not found errors.

Also same problem if I just try a HTTP Get to http://127.0.0.1:8080/data/schema/GenericEntity.avsc

[keanulee]

The file would be served at http://127.0.0.1:8080/es5-bundled/data/schema/GenericEntity.avsc (note the /es5-bundled/ part). prpl-server modifies the <base> tag in index.html, and all assets will be served under the build name.

[jconlon]

Thanks for the clue... I was using a path like:

/data/schema/GenericEntity.avsc

and changed it to:

data/schema/GenericEntity.avsc

Which now works for dev, previewing the server and when it is deployed.