Build frontend with Vite instead of Nextjs - #233
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We use nothing of the server side features of Nextjs. Instead of a server side rendered app, we can build a static site with Vite. This allows us to simplify the deployment process as we don't need to run a separate container for the frontend. We can also use the same configuration file as the backend to configure the frontend, inserting the config into the `index.html` on the fly every time it is served.
The frontend is now a static SPA. This makes it possible to embed the frontend build in the backend binary. This makes it possible to deploy bb-portal with a single binary.
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NOTE: This is a stacked PR. Please merge #226, #227, #228, #229, #230, #231, #232 first.
This PR removes Next.js from the frontend, instead building the frontend with Vite, using Tanstack Router for routing. We can do this since we use nothing of the server side features of Next.js. With this change we simplify the architecture, and it allows us to deploy it as a static SPA instead of an entire docker image for the frontend. We can also use the same configuration file as the backend to configure the frontend, inserting the config into the index.html on the fly every time it is served.
The static SPA files are embedded in the go binary when building (in production) and it serves the frontend, thus reducing the number of docker images to 1. Note that this new combined image has a new name (bb-portal), and does not use the old name of the backend.
Related discussion: #219
Closes #24, #219