Why not added prefix option?

[shurshilov]

Hi, when we run mkdocs from a local server, we create a url with documents that return index.html and css links to /assets/
and we also need to add a path to the resources (assets). Can we do this as dynamic params in the config? Because I would like to use a different path than assets, because it is. And I do it manually every time after the build.

Because assets prefix static in builded docs

[kamilkrzyskow]

Hello @shurshilov,
the location of the bundled theme assets is static, and they're copied from the theme to the final build as-is in 1:1 directory structure.
https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/tree/master/material/templates/assets

MkDocs also doesn't provide any API for compute logic for themes, so there is no dynamic way for the theme to change the location.
If you want this situation to change, you could create an issue upstream.

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However, you could create a hook, which would do the modification for you.
Like copy the files somewhere else and then modify the templates.

You could use a similar approach which I used to dynamically modify files:

• How to dynamically override templates with hooks? #5060
  You don't need any "backup" functionality or the complexity of the whole solution, you'd just modify the paths in base.html permanently.

It also doesn't need to be a hook, just another script. Similar to this approach:

• Group plugin breaks if environmen value is "1", must be "true" to work #7976 (comment)