Server-side Injected Config Values

[dyc3]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We have configuration values that the server needs to convey to clients, like the short url. It would be nice if we could avoid a round trip to the server to get config values.

Describe the solution you'd like

When serving index.html, the server should inject some javascript to set config values in a global scope. The client, when loaded by a browser, should then take those values and put them in a vuex store.

Additional context

Requires #849
Related: #842

[dyc3]

Currently, I'm liking ejs: https://github.com/mde/ejs

[dyc3]

I've looked into this a little more, this is going to take a lot of effort, and it's somewhat unclear how vite will play into all of this. I don't currently see a way forward with this without rewriting the frontend to do proper SSR.