[RFC] Serving static files from the root

Feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

After seeing some custom server.js usage a clear pattern is people using it to define static file serving from the root. For example for robots.txt or google site verification and other files that have to be served from the root.

Describe the solution you’d like

Ideally users would not have to define this. The common way root serving has been solved is through a public directory.

For example:

• Symfony
• create-react-app

Notes

This also needs to be applied to @now/next when implemented.

[digigarlab]

I think public/ is more explicit. In fact I already have a public/ folder that I copy manually to out during the export:

async exportPathMap(defaultMap) {
  //...
  await copy('./public', './out')

  return defaultMap
}

[timneutkens]

One implementation detail that we have to figure out is which are preferred: pages or public directory. I think it should be pages first.