gatsby build deletes all html files

[singuerinc]

I have a bunch of examples in my blog, small index.html files with a bit of js.
I put them in a folder inside the static folder.

If I run gatsby develop everything works well, but I soon as I run gatsby build every html file is deleted because https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/packages/gatsby/src/bootstrap/index.js#L64

And that's seems to be the correct behavior, so my question is: How you handle this situation?

I tried to use the onPostBuild function and that works ok with gatsby build, but not with gatsby develop, so I'm not entirely sure how to solve that.

Any idea?

[KyleAMathews]

Oh, hmmm does this happen? The solution would be then to copy stuff from the static folder after we delete the HTML files in public. Could you create a PR doing this?

[singuerinc]

What about excluding public/static/**/*.html from https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/packages/gatsby/src/bootstrap/index.js#L64 ?

[KyleAMathews]

👍 that'd work too

[singuerinc]

I don't have time right now but I will create a PR asap. Thanks!

[singuerinc]

Done: #2569

[singuerinc]

Unfortunately the fix didn't work as expected, it is still removing the files.

Looking into the readme of "del" I saw:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/del#beware

So, that was the cause why it didn't work before.

I created a new PR that should fix it properly:
#2600

Thanks!

[singuerinc]

I works now!