Apps Without Servers

Bolt has limited support for apps without servers.

If your app has no server but needs to render a GUI, follow the steps below:

1. Ensure the index file is public. This means it should be one of the files copied to your app's public directory.
2. Give it the name index in your named public files.

Assuming that the first file you want to render is home.html, located in views folder which itself is in your root folder, your package.json should look something like this:

{
    "bolt": {
        "public": [ "views/home.html" ] //or simply "public": [ "views" ] to make the entire "views" folder public
        "files": {
            "index": "views/home.html"
        }
    }
}

When one attempts to run your app by typing (assuming Bolt is running on port 400) localhost:400/apps/your-app-name, Bolt will redirect the request to localhost:400/files/your-app-name/index. This will fetch the file with the name index which in this case is views/home.html. Bolt will then render the public file with that path localhost:400/public/your-app-name/views/home.html. You may also need to ensure that all dependencies of this file (views/home.html) are also publicly accessible.