Public files not served from subdirectory in development

[adueck]

I am developing an app which I am deploying from a subdirectory.

In my package.json I have included "homepage": "https://example.com/my-subdirectory" and everything works great for deployment.

The only problem is when developing, my public folder assets get served from http://localhost:3000/ and not http://localhost:3000/my-subdirectory/.

Because I am using react-router and also doing some fetching and reading from resources in the public directory I do need to use the sub-directory in the urls, and so I need to modify some of my code while developing, and then again when deploying.

It would be wonderful if the public assets could be served from http://localhost:3000/subdirectory/ when there is "homepage": "https://example.com/subdirectory" in package.json.

[Timer]

We're adding this in the future, for now you can prefix your assets with process.env.PUBLIC_URL, e.g. <img src={process.env.PUBLIC_URL + '/my-thing.jpg'} />.

[Timer]

Merging into #4158