Option to read assets on startup

[cyberalien]

Describe the feature

Currently when building in Nuxt, Nitro caches list of assets in server/chunks/nitro/nitro.mjs and serves only those assets, ignoring actual contents of public.

However, I want to keep serving static assets from previous deployment, which are in public directory. It would be awesome if there was an option to read public directory on startup instead of serving hardcoded set of assets.

Additional information

• Would you be willing to help implement this feature?

[pi0]

.output/{public/server} directory is the artifact of the build, portable and immutable (including .output/public), this is by design.

I understand that you want to make public assets from previous builds to the new one in order to allow them being served for clients currently loading older manifest.

Nuxt in particular implemented a build manifest mechanism to detect new builds and vendors such as Vercel Skew Protection in order to answer this common problem.

If you have older build files available, there is another way of adding an additional public dir so that nitro picks and merges it during build. It merges them.

{
  publicAssets: [{ baseURL: "/_nuxt", dir: "path/to/previous/build/public" }],
}