Custom server with rsbuild dev server

[sowtame]

guys, if there is an example of using a custom server that would render an application on express, for example, using hmr and all the optimizations that are in rspack and rsbuild, and not just restart the server for every file change

a little demo of how I'm trying to use it https://github.com/sowtame/rsbuild-basic/blob/master/rsbuild.config.ts

[9aoy]

Here's a guide on integrating the Rsbuild dev server with Express, which may be helpful for you.
https://rsbuild.dev/api/javascript-api/instance#rsbuildcreatedevserver

[chenjiahan]

@9aoy can we add an example to https://github.com/rspack-contrib/rspack-examples?

[9aoy]

@chenjiahan rspack-contrib/rspack-examples#50 cc~

[sowtame]

thank you very much!! it helped to integrate the dev server with my server on express, but there is still a problem how to combine the render function, which located in the folder "src/server/server-render.tsx" (or the whole express app located in "src/server/index.tsx") with the dev server, so that there is hmr, optimization of rebuilding the js file and everything that rsbuild is very good at)
https://github.com/sowtame/rsbuild-basic/blob/master/rsbuild/devServer/server.mjs#L15

I want to create a small application with ssr in prod and dev builds (also created custom rsbuild assets plugins for it)

@9aoy @chenjiahan

[9aoy]

@sowtame Get your question. Rsbuild currently does not provide an example of SSR. Let me think about this later. 🤔

[9aoy]

@sowtame I wrote an example about using ssr with rsbuild, you can refer to this: https://github.com/9aoy/rsbuild-ssr-example/tree/main.
And we plan to provide some APIs in rsbuild for better use of ssr. #2221

[sowtame]

Oh, thank you so much for your time! @9aoy

I will really look forward to improvements for convenient work with ssr, looking at other builders it seems to be a very cool and unique feature for rsbuild!