wwwroot/dist vs ClientApp/dist folder in .NETCore

Question

What is the difference between "wwwroot/dist" and "ClientApp/dist" folders after running this command and how to use them correctly?

dotnet publish -c Release

Answer 1

The wwwroot/dist folder is basically an exposed folder that stores the compiled distributions of all pre-compiled javascript or scss code in the other parts of the project.

The ClientApp/dist folder stores all the compiled distributions of all the frontend framework classes/files within the ClientApp folder (i.e. AngularJS code transpiled docs).

.NET Core SPA apps usually route to the ClientApp/dist folder when performing Dependency injection on the SPA side of things.