It is possible to add assets to containers using the SDK tooling. It is described here: https://github.com/toitlang/toit?tab=readme-ov-file#adding-container-assets. If we can find a way to do the same with the Jaguar tooling, it should be possible to have an html document associated with a container - and perhaps serve that document from a web server in the container.

Jaguar has a way to add so-called defines for containers. Such defines are accessible from within the container, where they are included in a map available in the

jag.defines

asset.

So if you do

jag run -D mypage.greeting="hello" myapp.toit

, you can use the

"hello"

string from

myapp.toit

like this:

import system.assets
main:
  jag-defines := assets.decode["jag.defines"]
  greeting := jag-defines["mypage.greeting"]
  print "greeting = $greeting"

Wishful thinking: If we could just add more seperate assets when installing or running apps using Jaguar, it would be simple to pass an html document like an argument. Something like

jag run --asset file:mypage=mypage.html myapp.toit

, perhaps. That could then be used from Toit code like this:

assets.decode["mypage"]

.

Jaguar supports providing the assets for a program when run or installed using the

--assets

option. To use this, you first have to produce an assets file using

toit tool assets

.

First you create the assets file like this:

toit tool assets -e myassets create

and then you add you assets to it like this:

toit tool assets -e myassets add mypage mypage.html

This leaves you with an assets file called

myassets

that has a single entry (

mypage

) that contains the content of the

mypage.html

file.

You can look at the contents like this:

toit tool assets -e myassets list

You can now pass your assets to your program by using

jag run --assets myassets myapp.toit

and you can access your html like this:

import system.assets
main:
  mypage := assets.decode["mypage"]
  print "html = $mypage"

If you've only installed Jaguar, you can find the

toit

executable in

$HOME/.cache/jaguar/sdk/bin/toit

.