html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1688#issuecomment-1079550754,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1688,1079550754,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5AWKMi,9020979,2022-03-26T01:27:27Z,2022-03-26T03:16:29Z,NONE,"> Is there a way to serve a static assets when using the plugins/ directory method instead of installing plugins as a new python package?

As a workaround, I found I can serve my statics from a non-plugin specific folder using the [--static](https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/custom_templates.html#serving-static-files) CLI flag.

```bash
datasette ~/Library/Safari/History.db \
  --plugins-dir=plugins/ \
  --static assets:dist/
```

It's not ideal because it means I'll change the cache pattern path depending on how the plugin is running (via pip install or as a one off script), but it's usable as a workaround.
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https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1688#issuecomment-1079582485,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1688,1079582485,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5AWR8V,9599,2022-03-26T03:15:34Z,2022-03-26T03:15:34Z,OWNER,"Yup, you're right in what you figured out here: stand-alone plugins can't currently package static assets other then using the static folder.

The `datasette-plugin` cookiecutter template should make creating a Python package pretty easy though: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin

You can run that yourself, or you can run it using this GitHub template repository: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin-template-repository 

","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1181432624,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1688#issuecomment-1079806857,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1688,1079806857,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5AXIuJ,9020979,2022-03-27T01:01:14Z,2022-03-27T01:01:14Z,NONE,"Thank you! I went through the cookiecutter template, and published my first package here: https://github.com/hydrosquall/datasette-nteract-data-explorer","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1181432624,