fix(cli): Updated logic to resolve out_dir paths relative to workspace

[Nathy-bajo]

This fix ensures the out_dir configuration in Dioxus.toml is respected for web builds, allowing users to specify custom output directories. Key updates include:

• Added out_dir handling to resolve both relative and absolute paths.
• Ensured the directory is created if missing, with error logging.
• Introduced an out_dir field in ApplicationConfig (default: "dist") and integrated it into DioxusConfig for backward compatibility.
  Users can now customize the build output directory seamlessly.

[richard-viney]

The code looks reasonable to me. Is it based on what was present in 0.5?

[Nathy-bajo]

The code looks reasonable to me. Is it based on what was present in 0.5?

No, I noticed the issue, thought of a solution, and then tried implementing it to fix the problem.

[richard-viney]

All good, I was just curious how it ended up being lost in the new version.

Is it possible to add a unit test for this functionality?

[Nathy-bajo]

All good, I was just curious how it ended up being lost in the new version.

Is it possible to add a unit test for this functionality?

Yes!

[jkelleyrtp]

We dropped outdir as the primary build dir in 0.6 since that was causing lots of bugs on its own with multiple profiles/platforms/projects/etc.

To properly isolate builds from each other, dx needs to be somewhat opaque with its output structure.

You can use dx bundle --json-output and some jq to parse the output which might be better for automation cases.

Given how many folks rely on outdir, I think we should keep it though. However, my vote is to only have an outdir in release mode/bundle and/or make it a cli argument only.

dx now uses the build_dir for lots of stuff - not only emitting a /public dir and a server.

[vnermolaev]

I encountered this issue while following the instructions in the Dioxus Cookbook for publishing a website on GitHub Pages. The corresponding entry should also be updated based on the decision made regarding out_dir.

[jkelleyrtp]

I'm going to combine this with the #3572 PR to copy dx bundle artifacts to the outdir if it's specified. dx build --release doesn't generate the same structure as dx bundle and generally can't be relied upon to be stable in form between versions.

I don't want us to expose the internals of the dioxus build directories since it's very hard to keep those "clean." We have a similar problem to Cargo's target directory where we need to be able to change how we do builds between dioxus versions and don't want to expose the structure.

[jkelleyrtp]

Implemented this in #3572 - you should've gotten co-author creds. Thank you!