Serve assets (like jquery) from own server

Using Themes
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Hi!

I’m starting to use Hugo, using the ‘Academic’ theme (though that’s probably more than just a theme…)

That theme makes heavy use of several CSS and JS assets hosted at various places, mostly cloudflare. The assets are all registered in the themes ‘data/assets.toml’ file. I wonder if it is possible to tell hugo to download all these assets when building my page, putting them somewhere under ‘public/assets/whatever’ and adapt the links in the template to use these self-hosted variants. Is that possible?

Thanks a lot, Lukas

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As you’ve hinted, the Academic theme is massive and powerful. Overriding various features is quite the feat. However, it looks like they’ve built in a way to use self-hosted assets

I’m not exactly sure how it works, but I think if you put your assets in /static/css and /static/js it will use those assets rather than others on the CDN.

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Oh okay - so this is something the template does, not Hugo itself. I’ll try to ask the Academic folks how this works. Thanks!

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Generally speaking, you can serve any assets you don’t want hugo to process in /static. E.g:

/static/css/somefile.css
...is served as...
https://mysite.com/css/somefile.css
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See https://github.com/sourcethemes/academic-admin , as mentioned in the readme and documentation.

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Oh, that indeed looks like what I was searching for. Thank you!