Serve Static Assets From Custom Directory

When you new up a Phoenix project, an endpoint.ex file will be generated. This file is full of different plugs for handling incoming traffic. The Plug.Static declaration specifies how your application will handle and serve requests for static files.

  plug Plug.Static,
    at: "/", from: :my_app, gzip: false,
    only: ~w(css fonts images js favicon.ico robots.txt)

The from options declares where these static files are located. In this case it references our application (:my_app) as the target which will translate to its priv/static directory.

If you instead want to serve your files from a different, custom directory, you can replace it with the path to that directory.

  plug Plug.Static,
    at: "/", from: "priv/my_frontend/static", gzip: false,
    only: ~w(css fonts images js favicon.ico robots.txt)

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