diff --git a/v2/internal/frontend/assetserver/assetserver_desktop.go b/v2/internal/frontend/assetserver/assetserver_desktop.go
index ed49b103b..c7d5fc7f2 100644
--- a/v2/internal/frontend/assetserver/assetserver_desktop.go
+++ b/v2/internal/frontend/assetserver/assetserver_desktop.go
@@ -17,13 +17,16 @@ import (
 var defaultHTML []byte
 
 type DesktopAssetServer struct {
-	assets    fs.FS
-	runtimeJS []byte
-	logger    *logger.Logger
+	assets          fs.FS
+	runtimeJS       []byte
+	logger          *logger.Logger
+	servingFromDisk bool
 }
 
-func NewDesktopAssetServer(ctx context.Context, assets fs.FS, bindingsJSON string) (*DesktopAssetServer, error) {
-	result := &DesktopAssetServer{}
+func NewDesktopAssetServer(ctx context.Context, assets fs.FS, bindingsJSON string, servingFromDisk bool) (*DesktopAssetServer, error) {
+	result := &DesktopAssetServer{
+		servingFromDisk: servingFromDisk,
+	}
 
 	_logger := ctx.Value("logger")
 	if _logger != nil {
@@ -53,6 +56,9 @@ func (d *DesktopAssetServer) LogDebug(message string, args ...interface{}) {
 // loadFile will try to load the file from disk. If there is an error
 // it will retry until eventually it will give up and error.
 func (d *DesktopAssetServer) loadFile(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
+	if !d.servingFromDisk {
+		return fs.ReadFile(d.assets, filename)
+	}
 	var result []byte
 	var err error
 	for tries := 0; tries < 50; tries++ {
diff --git a/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/darwin/frontend.go b/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/darwin/frontend.go
index cd5adb94b..26f2a888a 100644
--- a/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/darwin/frontend.go
+++ b/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/darwin/frontend.go
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ func NewFrontend(ctx context.Context, appoptions *options.App, myLogger *logger.
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	assets, err := assetserver.NewDesktopAssetServer(ctx, appoptions.Assets, bindingsJSON)
+	assets, err := assetserver.NewDesktopAssetServer(ctx, appoptions.Assets, bindingsJSON, result.servingFromDisk)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/linux/frontend.go b/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/linux/frontend.go
index 09b07d757..fba8d2c4d 100644
--- a/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/linux/frontend.go
+++ b/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/linux/frontend.go
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func NewFrontend(ctx context.Context, appoptions *options.App, myLogger *logger.
 		result.servingFromDisk = true
 	}
 
-	assets, err := assetserver.NewDesktopAssetServer(ctx, appoptions.Assets, bindingsJSON)
+	assets, err := assetserver.NewDesktopAssetServer(ctx, appoptions.Assets, bindingsJSON, result.servingFromDisk)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/windows/frontend.go b/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/windows/frontend.go
index 2eb152002..a25b8c898 100644
--- a/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/windows/frontend.go
+++ b/v2/internal/frontend/desktop/windows/frontend.go
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ func NewFrontend(ctx context.Context, appoptions *options.App, myLogger *logger.
 		result.servingFromDisk = true
 	}
 
-	assets, err := assetserver.NewDesktopAssetServer(ctx, appoptions.Assets, bindingsJSON)
+	assets, err := assetserver.NewDesktopAssetServer(ctx, appoptions.Assets, bindingsJSON, result.servingFromDisk)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}