> This pattern can be used to serve uploaded files stored in a non-public location, after the backend authenticated the request etc. That's a perfectly valid u

> This pattern can be used to serve uploaded files stored in a non-public location, after the backend authenticated the request etc. That's a perfectly valid use case! Packaging a front end application (e.g. React/Angular/Vue) inside of a .jar file and making Tomcat or something else serve it, as a part of a larger Java application, though? Perhaps less of an optimal solution than just using Apache/Nginx/Caddy for it, outside of really wanting to be able to deploy everything as a single package.