Custom JS files are not copied to public/js folder

[davxiao]

Custom JS files place in assets/js/ folder are not copied into public/js folder.

See below for directory structure

assets
└── js
    ├── jquery.js
    └── node_modules
        ├── jquery
        │   ├── dist
        │   │   ├── jquery.js
        │   │   ├── jquery.min.js
        │   │   ├── jquery.min.map
        │   │   ├── jquery.slim.js
        │   │   ├── jquery.slim.min.js
        │   │   └── jquery.slim.min.map
        │   └── package.json

I've followed the instructions at https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/customization/#add-scripts-js and added jquery.js to params.toml

Hugo version 0.7.0, latest version Hugo-academic. Any suggestions? Much appreciated.

[gcushen]

for your own local scripts, let’s say that you have a JS file named custom.js. We can place your file in assets/js/ (create the folders within your website root if they don’t exist). Then open your config/_default/params.toml and set plugins_js = ["custom"], where custom is your JS filename without its extension.

Can you show the relevant line of your params.toml? Did you specify just the filename without the .js extension?

[davxiao]

In params.toml

# Load JS plugins
#   E.g. To load `/assets/js/custom.js`, set `plugins_js = ["custom"]`.
plugins_js  = ["jquery"]

I can confirm assets/js/jquery.js exists.

After ran hugo, I checked the public/js directory it generated, it has only the following files:

academic.min.01f19851374de3eb9e5c5e6b18db5b9f.js
academic.min.37431be2d92d7fb0160054761ab79602.js
mathjax-config.js
vendor

[gcushen]

The custom script should be included in the academic.min.*.js file.

[gcushen]

Alternatively, if you are looking to self-host the integrated assets rather than using third party CDN, there is a guide here https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/offline-site/