Briefly summarize the issues you have been experiencing. I have a site that is built by the npm run build command, using Parcel. The original setup was easy as I only have to run the same command on Netlify. It builds the site into the dist folder and serves the files from there. However, I realiz…

Hey there, is the static directory empty and the robots.txt and sitemap.xml generated by your build process? or the files in the static directory already when you check them into your build? If you clone your repo into a fresh directory, do you see them there?

Hey Gerald, Thank you for your response. The files are there in the repository and are not generated by the build process. In the meantime, I also followed the steps described for building the image locally (described here ) and it failed with the same error message even though the files were also…

Could you add a step to your build script in package.json? Something like an ls -l static/ step just before parcel runs to ensure that the build process isn’t somehow removing the files? Some SSG’s like Jekyll are prone to scooting files around unexpectedly…

Thank you for your answer. I did what you suggested and I can confirm the files were there: 10:55:19 AM: dist/index.html 10.27 KB 3.71s 10:55:19 AM: dist/avatar-balint.b1e8b9b3.jpg 8.85 KB 2.33s 10:55:19 AM: dist/font.2f561455.css.map …

thanks for closing the loop and letting us know!

Sorry to revive a year old thread, but I seem to be having the same issue with a directory also named “static”. I’m not sure if its a coincidence but it seems weird to have this same issue twice. I can confirm that cloning the repo also clones the nonempty static directory. Webpack complains about n…

What happens if you throw a .gitkeep in the directory?

I’m having the same problem using parcel-plugin-static-files-copy . Everything works perfect during development, but fails when building from Github. It makes me think on some configuration I’m missing?

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Thanks for your answer. This cannot be the issue, all my files are in lowercase. I’ve just opened another topic to not pollute this one with my own problem.

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Deployment fails – can't find files in folder that's added to git

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