Created install.sh and build.sh

Also refactored methods to work as a zipapp

build.sh

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 # uv export > requirements.txt
+# mkdir if not exists release
+mkdir -p release
 python -m zipapp src --compress --output=release/pyshelf --python="/usr/bin/env python"

instal.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+cd /tmp/
+git clone https://github.com/th3r00t/pyShelf.git
+cd pyshelf
+git checkout 0.8.0--dev-zipapp
+./build.sh
+sudo cp ./src/frontend/static /var/lib/pyshelf/assets -r
+sudo cp ./src/frontend/templates /var/lib/pyshelf/assets -r
+sudo cp ./release/pyshelf /usr/local/bin/pyshelf

src/frontend/lib/FastAPIServer.py

@@ -16,10 +16,13 @@ from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
 from backend.lib.storage import Storage
 from .objects import JSInterface
+from .runtime_paths import ensure_assets
 from backend.lib.config import Config
 
 app = FastAPI()
-templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="src/frontend/templates")
+STATIC_DIR, TEMPLATES_DIR = ensure_assets()
+templates = Jinja2Templates(directory=str(TEMPLATES_DIR))
+# templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="src/frontend/templates")
 origins = [
     "http://localhost",
     "http://localhost:8081",
@@ -34,7 +37,6 @@ app.add_middleware(
     allow_headers=["*"],
 )
 
-
 def base64decode(string) -> str:
     """Decode a base64 string."""
     try:
@@ -134,9 +136,10 @@ class FastAPIServer():
     def __init__(self, config):
         """Initialize FastAPIServer object parameters."""
         self.config = config
-        app.mount("/static",
-                  StaticFiles(directory="src/frontend/static"),
-                  name="static")
+        app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory=str(STATIC_DIR)), name="static")
+        # app.mount("/static",
+        #           StaticFiles(directory="src/frontend/static"),
+        #           name="static")
         self.fe_config = uvicorn.Config(app, host="0.0.0.0", port=8080,
                                         log_level="info", reload=True)
         self.fe_server = uvicorn.Server(self.fe_config)

src/frontend/lib/objects.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """pyShelf's Frontend Objects."""
 from subprocess import run
 from pathlib import Path
-from src.backend.lib.config import Config
+from backend.lib.config import Config
 
 
 class JSInterface():

src/frontend/lib/runtime_paths.py

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# src/frontend/lib/runtime_paths.py
+from __future__ import annotations
+import os, sys, shutil
+from pathlib import Path
+from importlib import resources
+
+ASSET_TOPS = ("static", "templates")
+
+def _inside_zipapp() -> bool:
+    # zipapps can be a single file (…/pyshelf.pyz) or an executable file without .pyz
+    # When invoked, sys.argv[0] is the archive path; treat non-directory as zipapp
+    return not Path(sys.argv[0]).is_dir()
+
+def assets_root() -> Path:
+    """
+    Directory that *contains* static/ and templates/.
+    Priority:
+      1) PYSHELF_ASSETS
+      2) ./pyshelf (sibling dir next to the archive) when running as zipapp
+      3) frontend/ (package dir) when running from source/unpacked tree
+    """
+    env = os.environ.get("PYSHELF_ASSETS")
+    if env:
+        return Path(env)
+
+    if _inside_zipapp():
+        # e.g. /opt/pyshelf/pyshelf  -> use /opt/pyshelf/pyshelf{,/static,/templates}
+        base = Path(sys.argv[0]).resolve()
+        # strip suffix like ".pyz" if present to get a nice folder name
+        return base.with_suffix("")
+
+    # Dev/regular run: __file__ = …/frontend/lib/runtime_paths.py => parents[1] == …/frontend
+    return Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+
+def _copy_traversable_tree(src_trav, dst_dir: Path) -> None:
+    """Recursively copy a Traversable (importlib.resources) tree to dst_dir."""
+    for child in src_trav.iterdir():
+        target = dst_dir / child.name
+        if child.is_dir():
+            target.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+            _copy_traversable_tree(child, target)
+        else:
+            target.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+            with child.open("rb") as r, open(target, "wb") as w:
+                shutil.copyfileobj(r, w)
+
+def ensure_assets() -> tuple[Path, Path]:
+    """
+    Ensure static/ and templates/ exist on disk and return their paths.
+    If running from zipapp and they don't exist yet, extract packaged copies.
+    """
+    root = assets_root()
+    static_dir = root / "static"
+    tmpl_dir = root / "templates"
+
+    # If both already exist, use them (works in repo tree and next to .pyz)
+    if static_dir.exists() and tmpl_dir.exists():
+        return static_dir, tmpl_dir
+
+    # Extract from package data into root/{static,templates}
+    pkg = "frontend"  # package that contains 'static' and 'templates'
+    for top in ASSET_TOPS:
+        src = resources.files(pkg) / top  # Traversable
+        dst = root / top
+        dst.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        _copy_traversable_tree(src, dst)
+
+    return static_dir, tmpl_dir
+