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Serving static images with Webpack

I am having trouble with webpack and react serving static images on webpack dev server.

This is my currenct folder structure

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As you can see I have a assets folder witch holds all my images This is my webpack entry and output configuration

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Where client entry is source of my react project CLIENT_ENTRY: path.join(process.cwd(), 'src/client/index.jsx')

Now here is my output in BASH when webpack has done its part enter image description here

And here is where I am trying to load images from assets folder in root of the project

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Only the import works witch is expected.

I have tried to change the output and public path like so in webpack path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'), publicPath: '/',

path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist/assets'), publicPath: '/assets/',

path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'), publicPath: '/assets',

path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'), publicPath: '/assets/',

etc.. etc..

If someone could help me that would be great

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jonjonson Avatar asked Sep 21 '25 04:09

jonjonson


2 Answers

In your webpack.config.js, you will need to serve the assets folder as well.

{
  ...webpack,
  devServer: {
    contentBase: [__dirname + '/public', __dirname + '/assets'],
    ...webpack.devServer,
  },
}
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Richard Avatar answered Sep 22 '25 20:09

Richard


To follow the idea behind webpack you need to process assets from your source to your target.

Therefore, add your images to a relative path in your source (where your entry is, essentially) and add a loader for the images (and perhaps other things) as such:

{
    test: /\.(woff2?|jpe?g|png|gif|ico)$/, 
    use: 'file-loader?name=./assets/images/[name].[ext]'
}

Just update the relative path of the outputs to the assets/images and they should be able to load.

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cbll Avatar answered Sep 22 '25 19:09

cbll