Static Assets

In general, every website needs assets: images, stylesheets, favicons and etc. In such cases, you can create a directory named static at the root of your project. Every file you put into that directory will be copied into the 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’ll be copied to build/sun.jpg.

This means that if the site's baseUrl is /, an image in /static/img/docusaurus_keytar.svg is available at /img/docusaurus_keytar.svg.

Referencing your static asset

You can reference assets from the static folder in your code. You could use hardcoded absolute paths, i.e. starting with a slash /, but remember to include the baseUrl if it is not /. However, this will break if you change your baseUrl in the config.

A better way would be to use the useBaseUrl utility function which appends the baseUrl to paths for you.

JSX example

MyComponent.js

import useBaseUrl from '@docusaurus/useBaseUrl';

<img

alt="Docusaurus with Keytar"

src={useBaseUrl('img/docusaurus_keytar.svg')}

/>;

You can also import SVG images, which will be transformed into React components.

MyComponent.js

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

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

Markdown example

Thanks to MDX, you can also use useBaseUrl utility function in Markdown files! You'd have to use <img> tags instead of the Markdown image syntax though. The syntax is exactly the same as in JSX.

my-doc.mdx

---

id: my-doc

title: My Doc

---

// Add to the top of the file below the front matter.

import useBaseUrl from '@docusaurus/useBaseUrl';

...

<img alt="Docusaurus with Keytar" src={useBaseUrl('img/docusaurus_keytar.svg')} />

You could also just use Markdown image syntax, but you would have to manually maintain the image paths yourself and isn't recommended.

my-doc.md


Caveats

Keep in mind that:

• By default, none of the files in static folder will be post-processed or minified.
• Missing files references 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.