serve()

Create a production rendering engine that loads prebuilt page modules from disk.

import path from 'node:path';
import { serve } from 'reactus';

const engine = serve({
  cwd: process.cwd(),
  clientRoute: '/client',
  cssRoute: '/assets',
  pagePath: path.join(process.cwd(), '.build/pages')
});

Use serve() after you already built the page modules with build().

Common properties

Common methods

render(entry, props?)

Render a built page module to final HTML.

const html = await engine.render('@/pages/home', { title: 'Home' });

importPage(entry)

Import the compiled page module that production rendering will use.

absolute(entry) and id(entry)

Resolve the source file path or generated document id for an entry.

Important limitation

serve() renders built page modules. It does not serve static assets for you.

Your production server still needs to serve:

• built CSS
• built client JavaScript
• any public files such as images or icons

Related

• Build and serve guide
• DocumentLoader
• DocumentRender