Unnecessary folder: fittrackee/dist ?

[gorgobacka]

While checking and trying to understand the codebase, I was wondering, if the folder "fittrackee/dist" needs to be checked into git, because it can be created on the fly.

Btw: the Makefile points to rm -rf dist/ and .gitignore to /dist instead of fittrackee/dist.

But maybe I get it wrong here and the folder is needed for something specific.

If it's a stupid request, please excuse me and close it. But I'm excited about the project and plan to contribute in the future. Therefore, I'm looking at the codebase at the moment.

[SamR1]

Hi,

fittrackee/dist contains static assets present in the package available on PyPI. The client part is a single-page application directly served by Flask.
dist is a temporary directory used to generate the package with Poetry.

It's not a common architecture, but for now it eases installation and limits requirements (no javascript tool needed to install FitTrackee on production, from PyPI or by cloning the repo).
Since there is no specific configuration for the client part, it's not mandatory to build assets for a given configuration.

But there are some disadvantages for development (see the contribution guide).
Maybe I should organize the project differently.

And no problem if you have other questions :). You can also reach me on Matrix: #fittrackee:matrix.org

[gorgobacka]

Ok. Thanks for your explanations. Then it makes den sense to keep the folder.