#Assets handle

#Import Static assets

You can import static assets in your markdown(or mdx) file, and Island.js will handle it for you.

Relative and absolute paths are both supported. For example, if you have an image in the same folder as your markdown file, you can reference it like this:

![](./island.png)

Of course, in mdx file your can also use img tag directly:

<img src="./island.png" />

Island.js will response the image request based on your source file path and the relative path you provided.

On the other hand, you can also use absolute path to import static assets.In this way, Island.js will look for the file in two places:

• root dir served by Island.js, such as docs
• public folder in root dir

For example, if root dir is docs and you have a file docs/public/island.png, you can reference it like this:

![](/island.png)

Then, if you have a file docs/assets/island.png, you can reference it like this:

![](/assets/island.png)

#Public Files

As well as mentioned above, you can put your static assets in public folder, and Island.js will serve them for you. And in production build, Island.js will copy all files in public folder to the output folder(dist).

For example:

docs
├── public
│   └── island.png

After build, you will get:

docs
├── public
│   └── island.png
├── .island
│   └── dist
│       └── island.png
│       └── index.html
│       └── ...