diff --git a/pagerite/app.py b/pagerite/app.py
index 11e5599..4880e14 100644
--- a/pagerite/app.py
+++ b/pagerite/app.py
@@ -30,18 +30,28 @@ walking the tree (``resolve``), moves are slot detach/attach
 
 import asyncio
 import logging
+from collections.abc import AsyncGenerator
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
+from pathlib import Path
 
 from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
 from fastapi.responses import Response
+from fastapi_vue import Frontend
 
 from pagerite import api, files, pages, tracking
 from pagerite.__main__ import DEVMODE
 from pagerite.files import file_store
-from pagerite.state import analytics_store, config, frontend, kanta
-from collections.abc import AsyncGenerator
+from pagerite.state import analytics_store, config, kanta
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+# Vue build served at the site root, no SPA catch-all (assets only). The
+# build mirrors the URL space: hashed, immutable files live under
+# /_assets/ (assetsDir: '_/assets'), the favicon at /favicon.ico.
+frontend = Frontend(
+    Path(__file__).with_name("frontend-build"), spa=False, cached="/_assets/"
+)
+
 
 @asynccontextmanager
 async def lifespan(_app: FastAPI) -> AsyncGenerator:
diff --git a/pagerite/state.py b/pagerite/state.py
index d0d7d28..b68b9dc 100644
--- a/pagerite/state.py
+++ b/pagerite/state.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Everything the route modules (files, api, tracking, pages) need that is not
 a route itself: environment-derived paths and tunables, the ``Data`` root
 with its ``Kanta`` handle (migrations in pagerite.migrations), the analytics
-store, the fastapi-vue ``Frontend``, the page render cache
+store, the page render cache
 (``_render_html``/``_cached_body``/``_html_response`` plus the
 ``_render_gen`` ETag generation, bumped by ``_invalidate_pages`` on every
 content/settings write), the translator ``dispatcher``, the slug charset
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import blake3
 from fastapi import HTTPException, Request
 from fastapi.responses import Response
-from fastapi_vue import Frontend
 from kanta import Kanta
 from zstandard import ZstdCompressor
 
@@ -80,12 +79,6 @@ FAVICON_MAXSIZE = 192
 data = Data()
 kanta = Kanta(DB_PATH, data, migrations="pagerite.migrations")
 
-# Vue build served at the site root, no SPA catch-all (assets only). The
-# build mirrors the URL space: hashed, immutable files live under
-# /_assets/ (assetsDir: '_/assets'), the favicon at /favicon.ico.
-BUILD_DIR = Path(__file__).with_name("frontend-build")
-frontend = Frontend(BUILD_DIR, spa=False, cached="/_assets/")
-
 # Dynamic HTML is compressed per request at level 9 (static assets are
 # already pre-compressed by fastapi-vue's Frontend).
 _zstd = ZstdCompressor(9)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c49cd34..215f3ae 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.14"
 dependencies = [
     "blake3>=1.0.9",
-    "fastapi-vue~=1.4.0",
+    "fastapi-vue~=1.4.2",
     "fastapi[standard]>=0.141.1",
     "html5tagger>=2.0.0",
     "httpx>=0.28.1",