Question: How to access copyed files during postBuild when in develop mode

[jairmilanes]

So I used the postBuild on the gatsby-node.js file to copy a few static scripts to the public/assets/ folder on every build, they are all js scripts that don´t need to be processed by webpack like jquery and a few plugins.

There are no code related to this files inside my pages, they are only used by one of the script files that also get´s moved during the postBuild.

I can access this files using serve-build but not on develop, they all return 404 when I put them on script tags like <script src="assets/js/jquery-2.1.3.min.js"></script>

Is there a way I can properly access this files during develop mode?

[KyleAMathews]

Which version of Gatsby are you on?

If you copy the files manually to the public directory do things work in development?

[jairmilanes]

I´m using 0.12.48, it does not work even if I copy them manually.

The thing here is that when in develop the server looks for files inside the /pages directory and not in public or in the root directory.

So just to be clear on what I´m trying to acomplish here, I have this pure HTML template that I´m building my site from, I´m trying to convert this template to a React app, but some features on this template uses jQuery and a few plugins.

So using postBuild I copy the existing .js files from assets/js to inside the public/assets/js and use script tags to add them to the html.js file.

When I build my website the files are moved and I can serve-build and everything loads fine, but when on develop the server looks for this files inside the /pages folder, and surely does not find any asset, so it returns 404 for all of them and the site breaks.

So is there a way to while on develop, load point this static assets either to the root/* or the public/* instead of looking into pages only?

[KyleAMathews]

You might want to try doing this a more Gatsby/webpack native way https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28969861/managing-jquery-plugin-dependency-in-webpack

I'm not sure why the develop server isn't loading your files though they should.

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