Trouble setting custom assetDir name & path

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I am trying to set a custom assetDir instead of the default assets I’d like to use src. The short of it is I have been using Gulp to run tasks for me and I use the src as my naming convention. I’d like to start taking more advantage of Hugo’s sass watching / compilation, moving away tasks out of Gulp where I can…
I want to change the default asset directory via assetDir in my config.toml file like so:
assetDir = "src"

Now, if I run hugo config to print out my settings, I see that the change has taken hold. However, when I run hugo server essentially I get this (I’ve edited down the output):

Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "page" failed: "/my-project/themes/blank/layouts/_default/single.html:2:22": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:2:3: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "header.html...>: error calling partial: "/my-project/themes/blank/layouts/partials/header.html:2:22": execute of template failed: template: partials/header.html:2:22: executing "partials/header.html" at <resources.Get>: error calling Get: stat /my-project/themes/blank/assets/sass/main.scss: no such file or directory

At this point, the exercise is mostly academic b/c I just changed the name of the directory, and now Hugo will watch and compile my sass:

{{ $options := ( dict "targetPath" "css/root.css" "outputStyle" "compressed" "enableSourceMap" true ) }} {{ $style := resources.Get "sass/root.scss" | resources.ToCSS $options }}

That said, I’d still like to get to the bottom of why changing the config setting does not work.

Thanks!

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Can you share your site code?

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@zwbetz,
Thanks for your help, here are some links to the branch in my github repo:

here is the config.toml file:
https://github.com/ricardoom/dominotrono/blob/refactor-gulp/config.toml

and here is the relevant partial:
https://github.com/ricardoom/dominotrono/blob/refactor-gulp/themes/blank/layouts/partials/header.html

Feel free to look about the repo if you need more, its all a big work in progress / learning project and presently the dev site broken as all get out, but for different reasons…

Thanks again!

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I was able to replicate your issue on Windows 10 with Hugo 0.54.0

Weirdly, when I moved the src folder from themes/blank/src to your site root, the site built fine. So this feels like a bug

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If you would, please create an issue here https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues @ricardoom

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@zwbetz thanks for your help, looks like the functionality you experienced is by design. See this github issue: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5207

The way I understand it, if I am to rename or call a different directory, it must indeed be placed in the project root, and not in the theme…

I’m going to close this and mark it as solved.

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Ah, good to know.