fix(ui): keep published assets stable across upgrades

[yordis]

Summary

• Prevent UI asset delivery and browser caching from diverging across server upgrades
• Preserve authenticated UI behavior while allowing public assets to load reliably
• Document the requirement to deploy published assets with the server build

Testing

• Added unit-level integration coverage for fingerprinted assets, cache validation, authentication bypass, and sign-in asset references

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Changes HTTP middleware order and how Admin UI assets are hosted and cached; misconfiguration could break the UI or affect auth behavior on UI routes, though tests cover the asset/auth split.

Overview
Switches Admin UI static files from a custom PhysicalFileProvider on Locations.UiAssetsDirectory to ASP.NET static web assets: build output links ui-assets under wwwroot/ui/assets, App.razor resolves URLs via @Assets[...], and the host uses MapStaticAssets().ShortCircuit() so fingerprinted, cache-friendly asset routes are served without hitting the rest of the pipeline.

ClusterVNodeStartup moves UseRouting() ahead of authentication so endpoint routing (and static-asset short-circuiting) works correctly with the existing auth middleware. Docs now describe wwwroot/ui/assets beside the executable and require deploying full publish output (wwwroot + static-asset manifest) as a unit.

Adds UiStaticAssetsTests covering content-addressed endpoints, immutable caching/ETags, sign-in HTML referencing hashed URLs, and that /ui/assets/* skips credential/session checks while other UI routes still authenticate.

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Walkthrough

The server now packages UI assets under wwwroot, serves them through mapped static assets, updates middleware ordering, and uses fingerprinted asset references. Integration tests verify asset routing, caching, authentication behavior, and sign-in page references.

Changes

UI asset serving

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Asset packaging and references docs/server-settings.md, src/EventStore.ClusterNode/EventStore.ClusterNode.csproj, src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/App.razor	UI assets are packaged under wwwroot/ui/assets. App.razor uses @Assets references. Deployment documentation describes the required published output and fingerprinted URLs.
Static asset pipeline src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Program.cs, src/EventStore.Core/ClusterVNodeStartup.cs	The physical UI asset provider was removed. Mapped static assets now short-circuit the pipeline. Routing now runs before CORS.
Asset serving integration tests src/EventStore.Core.Tests/Services/Transport/Http/UiStaticAssetsTests.cs	Integration tests validate fingerprinted endpoints, MIME types, ETags, immutable caching, authentication bypass, and authentication for non-asset UI requests.

Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer this change because it is limited to UI asset packaging, caching, and static-request authentication behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to aacd4

The asset-serving change is mergeable, but the deployment documentation should clarify that wwwroot/ui/assets is packaged output deployed with its matching manifest, not a configurable content location.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant ClusterVNode
  participant MapStaticAssets
  participant AuthenticationMiddleware
  Browser->>ClusterVNode: Request fingerprinted UI asset
  ClusterVNode->>MapStaticAssets: Route static asset request
  MapStaticAssets-->>Browser: Return cached static asset
  Browser->>ClusterVNode: Request non-asset UI resource
  ClusterVNode->>AuthenticationMiddleware: Authenticate request
  AuthenticationMiddleware-->>Browser: Return authenticated response or unauthorized result

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 3 files. (3 skipped: 3…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: keeping published UI assets stable across server upgrades.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly covers asset delivery, browser caching, authentication behavior, deployment requirements, and integration testing from the changeset.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

docs/server-settings.md (1)

25-25: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify the web-content path.

Locations.UiAssetsDirectory has no server-side consumer. EventStore.ClusterNode.csproj still packages ui-assets as wwwroot/ui/assets, and Program.cs serves the published files through MapStaticAssets() and its endpoint manifest. Describe the three wwwroot/ui/assets entries as packaged output, not as a configurable location. Keep the packaging rule and require the matching manifest and assets to be deployed together.

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In `@docs/server-settings.md` at line 25, Update the Web content documentation to
describe the three wwwroot/ui/assets entries as packaged output rather than a
configurable location, remove the implication that Locations.UiAssetsDirectory
controls them, and state that the matching endpoint manifest and assets must be
deployed together while preserving the existing packaging rule.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@docs/server-settings.md`:
- Line 25: Update the Web content documentation to describe the three
wwwroot/ui/assets entries as packaged output rather than a configurable
location, remove the implication that Locations.UiAssetsDirectory controls them,
and state that the matching endpoint manifest and assets must be deployed
together while preserving the existing packaging rule.

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• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Program.cs
• src/EventStore.Core.Tests/Services/Transport/Http/UiStaticAssetsTests.cs
• src/EventStore.Core/ClusterVNodeStartup.cs

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