That is not true. You can mount static to assets in your site configuration:
[[module.mounts]]
source = 'assets'
target = 'assets'
[[module.mounts]]
source = 'static'
target = 'assets'
The extended version of Hugo is required to (a) transpile Sass to CSS with libsass, and (b) decode/encode webp images.
Markdown render hooks are powerful. Try this:
git clone --single-branch -b hugo-forum-topic-34833 https://github.com/jmooring/hugo-testing hugo-forum-topic-34833
cd hugo-forum-topic-34833
hugo server
The image render hook in this example allows you to control processing method, processing options, and much more using a query string. Some markdown examples:




It works with both remote and local images. For local images, it will look for a page resource first, and fallback to a global resource if present.
See the README file for a description of the available query string parameters.