Dioxus fullstack empty project without tailwind depends on non-existent input.css

[Silvea12]

Problem

When creating a new dioxus fullstack project, the build will fail due to a missing input.css - something that is supplied with the tailwind css template. There is no reference to it in any files, and it's not a requirement of the web template.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• dx new
• template type: fullstack
• css type: vanilla
• add router: true
• cd into your project
• dx build or dx watch

Expected behavior

The build is successful - there is nothing depending on the input.css file at the project root.

** Resulting behavior **

ERROR manganis_cli_support::manifest: Failed to copy static asset: Failed to read file from location: /-snip-/dx-fullstack-test/input.css
Error: 🚫 Building project failed:

Caused by:
    0: Failed to read file from location: /-snip-/dx-fullstack-test/input.css
    1: No such file or directory (os error 2)

Screenshots

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Environment:

• Dioxus version: 0.5.0 release, dioxus git 9f280a8d84c183c74db3452d60a4601aa343813c (main at time of project creation)
• Rust version: 1.77.1
• OS info: Linux 6.8.2-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC x86_64 GNU/Linux
• App platform: fullstack

Questionnaire

• [x] I'm interested in fixing this myself but don't know where to start
• [ ] I would like to fix and I have a solution
• [ ] I don't have time to fix this right now, but maybe later

[Ameima]

I encountered the same problem. I removed the ~/.cargo/assets path and it works.

[Silvea12]

... Why in the world does dioxus write to ~/.cargo? Seems to fix it but why would it write there? That in of itself feels like a bug.

[Silvea12]

Ah, I've found it. As per https://github.com/DioxusLabs/collect-assets/blob/c585779eaf615900f1a76f332905988da3922573/common/src/cache.rs#L11-L14 it uses home::cargo_home() as a base - and this defaults to ~/.cargo if unspecified.

I'm not sure I'd consider this good behavior - I feel like it should make something in the project root directory instead.

[ealmloff]

You might be running into https://github.com/DioxusLabs/collect-assets/issues/14. If you used a css file in the past with manganis and removed it, there is a bug that will cause it to not be removed.

We use a global directory instead of a directory in the project so that assets for a library are bundled into any crates that rely on that library