Content Pages in self-host

ServiceStack Razor
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I have a self-hosting instance and I’m looking at adding some Razor + Markdown pages to it.

Could you clarify the best practice when rendering Content Pages (as defined in this very helpful SO answer) within a self-hosted service?

I can serve *.cshtml/ *.md content pages using the following methods:

  1. Setting Build Action to “Copy if Newer” (as per SO comment), or
  2. Setting Build Action to “Embedded Resource”, or
  3. Adding WebHostPhysicalPath = Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine("~".MapProjectPath())) when setting up HostConfig

I’m wondering if there’s a general best practice around this, or if there’s some drawbacks to certain approaches?

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Well each option pretty much explains what each approach does, personally for self-host I like to use embedded resources as it will let you ILMerge with other .dlls to create a single self-encapsulated .exe which you can also do with ServiceStack.Gap which does the additional benefit of pre-compiling the razor views.