Make a custom directory accessible to GatsbyJS for development and build

[insmac]

I have GatsbyJS set up within a large monorepo with two different builds using a shared components set. The structure is as following:

src/
    /assets
        /images
    /gatsby-site
    /other-site
    /shared
gatsby-{config,node,etc.js}
package.json
...

The issue is this: I can access the shared components directory to import and use React components and logic in both GatsbyJS site and other site (native React) just fine, only that they contain images with src using a regular src=/assets/images/... tag, not ES6 imports. Obviously, they won't work in both development or built version in the Gatsby site.

What's the easiest solution to 1) make the assets directory visible to Gatsby and 2) copy these files (preferably only the used ones...) to static folder in the built version?

Best,
Maciek

[pieh]

Not ideal, but we copy files from <project-root>/static to public directory, so it would be worth checking setup when symlink is created:
<project-root>/static/assets -> <project-root>/src/assets, so those would be automatically copied.

Other option is to copy files there as part of build step - either in npm script or in gatsby-node - i.e.:

const fs = require(`fs`)
const path = require(`path`)

exports.onPostBootstrap = () => {
  fs.copySync(path.join(process.cwd(), "src", "assets", path.join(process.cwd(), `public`, "assets"))
}

(it won't watch for files and copy new one during gatsby develop tho)

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