Static Assets

Every website needs assets: images, stylesheets, favicons etc. By default, you are suggested to put these assets in the static folder.

Every file you put into that directory will be copied into the root of the generated build folder with the directory hierarchy preserved. E.g. if you add a file named sun.jpg to the static folder, it will be copied to build/sun.jpg.

This means that:

• for site baseUrl: '/', the image /static/img/docusaurus.png will be served at /img/docusaurus.png.
• for site baseUrl: '/subpath/', the image /static/img/docusaurus.png will be served at /subpath/img/docusaurus.png.

You can customize the static directory sources in docusaurus.config.js. For example, we can add public as another possible path:

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {
  title: 'My site',
  staticDirectories: ['public', 'static'],
  // ...
};

Now, all files in public as well as static will be copied to the build output.

Referencing your static asset

In JSX, you can reference assets from the static folder in your code using absolute paths, but this is not ideal because changing the site baseUrl will break those links. For the image <img src="/img/docusaurus.png" /> served at https://example.com/test, the browser will try to resolve it from the URL root, i.e. as https://example.com/img/docusaurus.png, which will fail because it's actually served at https://example.com/test/img/docusaurus.png.

You can import / require() the static asset (recommended), or use the useBaseUrl utility function: both prepend the baseUrl to paths for you.

info

In Markdown, things are different: you can stick to use absolute paths because Docusaurus actually handles them as require calls instead of URLs when parsing the Markdown. See Markdown static assets.

Examples

MyComponent.js

import DocusaurusImageUrl from '@site/static/img/docusaurus.png';

<img src={DocusaurusImageUrl} />;

MyComponent.js

<img src={require('@site/static/img/docusaurus.png').default} />

MyComponent.js

import useBaseUrl from '@docusaurus/useBaseUrl';

<img src={useBaseUrl('/img/docusaurus.png')} />;

You can also import SVG files: they will be transformed into React components.

MyComponent.js

import DocusaurusLogoWithKeytar from '@site/static/img/docusaurus_keytar.svg';

<DocusaurusLogoWithKeytar title="Docusaurus Logo" className="logo" />;

Caveats

Keep in mind that:

• By default, none of the files in static folder will be post-processed, hashed or minified.
• Missing files referenced via hardcoded absolute paths will not be detected at compilation time, and will result in a 404 error.
• By default, GitHub Pages runs published files through Jekyll. Since Jekyll will discard any files that begin with _, it is recommended that you disable Jekyll by adding an empty file named .nojekyll file to your static directory if you are using GitHub pages for hosting.