Enhancement: Astro new assets location

[estruyf]

In Astro added a new location for asset management src/assets. When this feature is enabled, the images added to this folder should be relatively referenced to the content folder/file.

Example:

---
title: 'First post'
description: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet'
pubDate: 'Jul 08 2022'
heroImage: '../../assets/blog-placeholder-1.jpg'
---

![](../../assets/blog-placeholder-1.jpg)

https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/assets/

[estruyf]

• Check if we can allow multiple asset folders in the frontMatter.content.publicFolder setting
• Add the astro:assets as a frontMatter.content.publicFolder option. If this is used, the files will be added relative to the content folder/page.
• Breadcrumb

[estruyf]

To use the new Astro Assets feature, you will need to configure the frontMatter.content.publicFolder setting with the following value: astro:assets.

[estruyf]

Thinking more about it, to be more future-proof, it would be better to enhance the frontMatter.content.publicFolder setting as I just read the following on the Astro docs:

We recommend storing all images to be optimized in the src/assets/ directory to make use of our official ~/assets alias, although this location is optional.

Right now the setting expects a string, but might be better to be an object which defines the folder + if it needs to be a relative path or not.

{
  "frontMatter.content.publicFolder": {
    "path": "src/assets",
    "relative": true
  }
}

[estruyf]

The above setting is implemented in the latest beta. During the welcome experience, you will also have the option to pick the asset folder.