assets are pulled in from angular.json, but not served?

I added src/api to my assets for an angular app. Stackblit pulled them in, but when I try to access the files via http in angular, i get an error. It returns a status code of 200 as it brings in the index.html.

            "assets": [
              "src/api",
              "src/favicon.ico",
              "src/assets"
            ],

I am trying to hit it with code like this:

  getCharacters(storyId: number) {
    return this.http
      .get('api/characters.json')
      .map((response: Response) => response.json().data);
  }

How can I add a folder like this?

[djtahl]

Any updates on the topic ? this is a real pain that will prevent more and more users from using stackblitz no ?

[pct-cclausen]

I seem to be running into this as well, is this not fixed?