* MS rspack outputs into a separate "DevOutput" folder when running "…

…rspack serve", rather than polluting the "Dist" folder (which should only change when "rspack build" is run).

Packages/client/.gitignore

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 /.git-rewrite
 /Source/BakedConfig_Dev.ts
 /Source/BakedConfig_Prod.ts
+/DevOutput
 /Dist
 /Source_JS
 /Tools/Webpack Profiling/Stats.json

Packages/monitor-client/.gitignore

@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 **/.DS_Store
 **/node_modules
 
+/DevOutput
 /Dist
 /Source_JS

Packages/web-vcore/Scripts/RsPack/rspack.js

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export const buildConfig = options=>{
 		resourceDirs: [
 			path.resolve(options.rootDir, "./Resources"),
 		],
-		outputDir: path.resolve(options.rootDir, "./Dist"),
+		outputDir: path.resolve(options.rootDir, RSPACK_IN_DEV_SERVER_MODE() ? "./DevOutput" : "./Dist"),
 	};
 	/** @type {BuildConfigOptions} */
 	const opt = {
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ export const buildConfig = options=>{
 	require("dotenv").config({path: opt.dotEnvFile});
 
 	// read some vars from the environment variables
+	function RSPACK_IN_DEV_SERVER_MODE() { return process.env.WEBPACK_SERVE == "true"; } // rspack re-uses this env-var name apparently
+	const QUICK = process.env.QUICK == "true";
 	const ENV_LONG = process.env.NODE_ENV;
 	const ENV = ENV_LONG === "production" ? "prod" : "dev";
-	const QUICK = process.env.QUICK == "true";
 	const PROD = ENV == "prod";
 	const DEV = ENV == "dev";
 	const TEST = false; //ENV == "test";

Tilt/Main.star

@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ if PROD:
 	if len(os.getenv("CLIENT_SECRET", "")) < 20:
 		fail("Invalid CLIENT_SECRET env-var value (should be at least 20 chars long): " + os.getenv("CLIENT_SECRET"))
 
-if not os.path.exists("../Packages/client/Dist/app.js"):
-	fail("File \"./Packages/client/Dist/app.js\" not found. Please build the client first, by running: `npm start client.tsc_noWatch && npm start client.build.prodQuick` (step 1 of readme's \"run-backend-local\" module)")
-if not os.path.exists("../Packages/monitor-client/Dist/app.js"):
-	fail("File \"./Packages/monitor-client/Dist/app.js\" not found. Please build the monitor client first, by running: `npm start monitorClient.tsc_noWatch && npm start monitorClient.build.prodQuick` (step 1 of readme's \"run-backend-local\" module)")
+if not os.path.exists("../Packages/client/Dist/index.html"):
+	fail("File \"./Packages/client/Dist/index.html\" not found. Please build the client first, by running: `npm start client.build.prod` (step 1 of readme's \"run-backend-local\" module)")
+if not os.path.exists("../Packages/monitor-client/Dist/index.html"):
+	fail("File \"./Packages/monitor-client/Dist/index.html\" not found. Please build the monitor client first, by running: `npm start monitorClient.build.prod` (step 1 of readme's \"run-backend-local\" module)")
 
 # start specifying resources (to be deployed to k8s soon)
 # ==========