Auto-build the fronted into the release binary on cargo build --release

README.md

@@ -3,30 +3,28 @@
 This app runs as a single Rust web server binary that serves the Vite/React frontend and exposes APIs.
 The frontend lives in the `frontend/` directory.
 
+You can also run the frontend and backend separately in development (Vite dev server + Rust API).
+
 ## Running it in development
 
 ```bash
 # Build the frontend
 cd frontend
-pnpm install
-pnpm build
-cd ..
+pnpm install 
+pnpm dev
 
 # Run the server (serves embedded frontend/dist/)
 cargo run
 ```
 
-## Running it in production
+## Production
 
 ```bash
-# Build the frontend
-cd frontend
-pnpm install
-pnpm build
-cd ..
+# Build the release binary (also builds the frontend via build.rs)
+cargo build --release
 
 # Run the server (serves embedded frontend/dist/)
-cargo run
+./target/release/story-kit-server
 ```