Serving assets in npm start

[quanterion]

I added to this starter image to /src/assets/img/test.png
After launching "npm start" the address
localhost:3000/assets/img/test.png is inaccessible, but address
localhost:3000/src/assets/img/test.png is working.

Which url should I set in image tag inside my html template?

[phil-lgr]

+1, was fighting to get fonts being loaded from url() in my css.

[PatrickJS]

the assets folder should be copied over to dist/assets and serving dist for example we;re using /assets/ for the icons https://github.com/AngularClass/angular2-webpack-starter/blob/master/src/index.html#L13...L25

[quanterion]

1)So I need to copy /src/assets/ to dist/assets manually each time I change smth in assets folder?
2)What do you mean by serving dist? Should I change server:dev command in package.json to serve dist folder instead of root folder? Will hot reload be working then?

[tmramo]

Hi,

I am experiencing the same issue as RemKolomna.

Downloaded a (fresh) Webpack starter, installed it by running ‘npm install’ (with no issues at all). I started it with ‘npm start’ with Webpack reporting that the bundle is valid. When accessing localhost:3000, I cannot access the icons:

http://localhost:3000/assets/icon/favicon-16x16.png -> 404
http://localhost:3000/src/assets/icon/favicon-16x16.png -> 200

I am running Windows 10, with Node version 4.2.3 and npm version 2.14.7. I didn’t had any problems prior to copy-webpack-plugin and am thinking that it might be the cause of this issue.

[deleonio]

Does anyone know why the whole src directory is accessible under dist?

The CopyWebpackPlugin does nothing!

[alvipeo]

Actually, CopyWebpackPlugin works. According to setup it runs when you do 'npm run build:dev' but not when you 'npm start'. But the problem is there anyway - even if img file is copied to dist webserver returns 404. And this is really the big unknown for me...

[PatrickJS]

so the problem was that webpack-dev-server was serving dist/ in-memory so if you added another file to src/assets you need to rebuild for it to copy over to dist/ I changed the contentBase to use src so when you use assets/ it's poining to src/assets rather than dist/assets. closed via c6f50c8