> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.shuttle.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Static Files

> This article walks you through setting up static files with Axum, a powerful Rust framework maintained by the Tokio-rs team.

## Description

This example has one route at `/` where the homepage is served and shows you how you can serve HTML or other types of files with Actix Web.

Note that build assets are declared in `Shuttle.toml`.

You can clone the example below by running the following (you'll need `shuttle` CLI installed):

```bash theme={null}
shuttle init --from shuttle-hq/shuttle-examples --subfolder axum/static-files
```

## Code

```rust src/main.rs theme={null}
use axum::Router;
use tower_http::services::ServeDir;

#[shuttle_runtime::main]
async fn main() -> shuttle_axum::ShuttleAxum {
    // ServeDir falls back to serve index.html when requesting a directory
    let router = Router::new().fallback_service(ServeDir::new("assets"));

    Ok(router.into())
}
```

```html assets/index.html theme={null}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Static Files</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>This is an example of serving static files with Axum and Shuttle.</p>
  </body>
</html>
```

```toml Cargo.toml theme={null}
[package]
name = "static-files"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"
publish = false

[dependencies]
axum = "0.8"
shuttle-axum = "0.57.0"
shuttle-runtime = "0.57.0"
tokio = "1.28.2"
tower-http = { version = "0.6", features = ["fs"] }
```

```toml Shuttle.toml theme={null}
[build]
assets = [
    "assets",
]
```

## Usage

After you clone the example, launch it locally by using `shuttle run` then visit the home route at `http://localhost:8000` - you should see a homepage that shows our included HTML file.

You can extend this example by adding more routes that serve other files.

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