how to access assets/images from the view in Sails.js?
I simply want to add an image in a view in my Sails-Project
My view-file has the location
views/album/albums.ejs
and the image is located in
assets/images/placeholder.png
if I add the image like this
<img src="../../assets/images/placeholder.png">
I get this error
GET http://localhost:1337/assets/images/placeholder.png 404 (Not Found)
Am I missing something?
Answer
Sails use Grunt (Gruntfile.js in root of project) to execute some tasks during sails lift. One of that tasks is to copy files from assets directory to .tmp/public/ directory (in development version). So if u add your file to assets directory you will need to restart sails (sails lift) to get it accessible from .tmp/public/ (what is public accessible directory root). Also its important to note that if u put files directly to .tmp/public/ it will be accessible instant, but on next sails lift it will be deleted, since one of Grunt tasks is to clear that directory before copy new files. All of this u can find on sails documentation (assets and asset-management) and by reading Gruntfile.js in root of your project