Assets Output Target

The assets output target copies every component's assetsDirs to one unified location, shared by every other output target you configure. It's always present - Stencil auto-generates it (in both dev and production builds) unless you configure one explicitly, so there's nothing to add to outputTargets for the common case.

outputTargets: [
  {
    type: 'assets'
  }
]

The copy itself is a no-op if no component declares assetsDirs - configuring this target explicitly only matters if you want a directory other than the default.

Config

dir

default: dist/assets

Where component assets are copied to. loader-bundle, standalone, and www all resolve getAssetPath()/setAssetPath() against this directory automatically, so changing it doesn't require updating anything on those targets.

skipInDev

default: false

Unlike most auto-generated output targets, assets also runs during development builds (--dev) by default, since a component's assets need to resolve correctly in the dev server too. Set this to true to skip it in dev.

See the Assets guide for how to declare a component's assets and resolve their paths at runtime.