Move /assets folder to /_astro

[matthewp]

Move /assets/ to /_astro/

Reasons

• Avoid route conflicts
• Sets up a namespace for more endpoints like the Image integration
• Helps httparchive with fingerprinting

Note, it would be nice if this were more easily configured. For ex.:

export default {
  build: {
    assets: 'my-assets/'
  }
};

This would match what we already have with build.server, build.client, etc.

[Tc-001]

Would it be useful to have it optionally be outside of dist as well?
On second thought I only see it being useful together with a CDN domain, and that is definitely a future RFC if there isn't one already

[plutoniumm]

Hey, so this creates a problem with github pages deployment since jekyll does not let you fetch from _ domains on frontend. The problem randomly seems to persist even after adding .nojekyll

It could help to do one of these

1. Move _astro to some randomly generated hash
2. Add an adapter for gh-pages where _astro is automatically renamed to something non _

Additionally it might help to add this in the docs too in either FAQ or as a warning

[matthewp]

@plutoniumm You can customize this using config.assets. That's what I would suggest doing. A GH integration would be great. But for now you should mention this to the docs team on discord.

[ARISEN-DEV]

Hey Matthew, i'm pretty noob with Astro but can you please show how can we configure it? Should be awesome if you can do that :D

[plutoniumm]

Hey Arisen you can go to the astro.config.mjs file, add a root level key to it called build in the defineConfig object, then add a sub key-value pair `assets: 'yourDirName',

You can also check this out from the docs

[leoplaw]

Since there is a problem with github pages deployment since jekyll does not let you fetch from _ domains on frontend, what config option is there to change the _pagefind directory?

[gibbok]

@plutoniumm I had the same issue and I was able to solve it. Thansk to your comment!
Would be great have this mentioned in the official docs.
Thanks again

https://github.com/gibbok/typescript-book/blob/main/website/astro.config.mjs#L9