Add support for a static folder

It is a nice escape hatch, ref: #28

Author: mxstbr

Diff for: config/paths.js

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ if (isInCreateReactAppSource) {
     appFavicon: resolve('../template/favicon.ico'),
     appPackageJson: resolve('../package.json'),
     appSrc: resolve('../template/src'),
+    appStatic: resolve('../template/static'),
     appNodeModules: resolve('../node_modules'),
     ownNodeModules: resolve('../node_modules')
   };
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ if (isInCreateReactAppSource) {
     appFavicon: resolve('../../../favicon.ico'),
     appPackageJson: resolve('../../../package.json'),
     appSrc: resolve('../../../src'),
+    appStatic: resolve('../../../static'),
     appNodeModules: resolve('../..'),
     // this is empty with npm3 but node resolution searches higher anyway:
     ownNodeModules: resolve('../node_modules')
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ if (isInCreateReactAppSource) {
     appFavicon: resolve('../favicon.ico'),
     appPackageJson: resolve('../package.json'),
     appSrc: resolve('../src'),
+    appStatic: resolve('../static'),
     appNodeModules: resolve('../node_modules'),
     ownNodeModules: resolve('../node_modules')
   };

Diff for: config/webpack.config.dev.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ var path = require('path');
 var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
 var webpack = require('webpack');
 var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
+var CopyWebpackPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
 var paths = require('./paths');
 
 module.exports = {
@@ -85,6 +86,9 @@ module.exports = {
       favicon: paths.appFavicon,
     }),
     new webpack.DefinePlugin({ 'process.env.NODE_ENV': '"development"' }),
+    new CopyWebpackPlugin([
+      { from: paths.appStatic, to: 'static' }
+    ]),
     // Note: only CSS is currently hot reloaded
     new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin()
   ]

Diff for: config/webpack.config.prod.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ var path = require('path');
 var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
 var webpack = require('webpack');
 var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
+var CopyWebpackPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
 var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
 var url = require('url');
 var paths = require('./paths');
@@ -109,6 +110,9 @@ module.exports = {
     new webpack.DefinePlugin({ 'process.env.NODE_ENV': '"production"' }),
     new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin(),
     new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin(),
+    new CopyWebpackPlugin([
+      { from: paths.appStatic, to: 'static' }
+    ]),
     new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
       compressor: {
         screw_ie8: true,

Diff for: package.json

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
     "babel-preset-es2016": "6.11.3",
     "babel-preset-react": "6.11.1",
     "chalk": "1.1.3",
+    "copy-webpack-plugin": "3.0.1",
     "cross-spawn": "4.0.0",
     "css-loader": "0.23.1",
     "eslint": "3.1.1",