Custom static folder?

Can Next be configured to use a custom folder for static files, rather than /static? (e.g. /client/static)

[piupiupiu]

Hey guys,

This is really a must-have feature. In my particular case,I have tons of dynamic urls which come from API and which are absolute. So, now the only possible way of solving this issue is playing with 301 redirects which is not reliable and much more time consuming. I bet I’m not the only one who needs an ability to alternate this path.

[kachkaev]

app.serveStatic() includes this.isServeableUrl() check:

https://github.com/zeit/next.js/blob/e9242705a3c75fa480250ef623b926b6140b1bf5/server/index.js#L396-L410

This means that serving any static file from outside next.js dir will result 404. In order to avoid that in some special case, this raw version of serveStatic can be used:

import { serveStatic } from "next/dist/server/render";

e.g.:

server.get("*", (req, res) => {
  const { pathname } = parse(req.url, true);

  if (env.WEB_ASSETS_DIR) {
    const fullPathname = `${req.protocol}://${req.get(
      "Host",
    )}${decodeURIComponent(pathname)}`;
    if (fullPathname.startsWith(env.WEB_ASSETS_BASE_URI)) {
      const assetPath = resolve(
        env.WEB_ASSETS_DIR,
        fullPathname.substr(env.WEB_ASSETS_BASE_URI.length),
      );
      if (fs.existsSync(assetPath)) {
        return serveStatic(req, res, assetPath);
      }
    }
  }
  handle(req, res);
});