vegabook
I have a very simple site which must simply serve a bunch of pdfs that I have created. So I have two questions:
a) where should I locate the pdf files? Should they be in the “assets” directory or in the “priv” directory? I assume in either case I would create a “pdfs” subdirectory (please tell me if not).
b) How do I reference them in html in my index.html.eex file? Here is what W3schools says I should do for downloadable files:
<a href="/images/myw3schoolsimage.jpg" download>
<img src="/images/myw3schoolsimage.jpg" alt="W3Schools">
</a>
but but I don’t know how to reference the /pdfs directory (nor indeed the /images directory) shown in that example. How do I translate those fixed paths to the relevant relative pdf file and images directories?
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kokolegorille
The recommended way is to put all pdfs under assets/static/pdfs so they would be copied to priv/static/pdfs by webpack copy plugin.
Then You still need to modify your endpoint to allow Plug.Static to serve pdfs…
What is under priv/static is served by Plug.Static (if configured in the endpoint) but usually You don’t touch this folder… You put stuff in assets/static and they will be copied.
You should note that priv/static is not under git supervision, so the content is not persisted when You commit…
If You look at your application layout You find this kind of line, but I guess using the path is ok too (I did not test).