Vue-cli: The baseUrl option cannot be empty

[sjoerdvisscher]

Version

3.0.0-alpha.13

Steps to reproduce

Make a vue.config.js with

module.exports = {
  baseUrl: ''
}

execute npm run build.

What is expected?

An index.html file is created with relative link, f.e. href=js/... etc.

What is actually happening?

I get an error that baseUrl cannot be empty.

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A simple workaround is

module.exports = {
  configureWebpack: {
    output: {
      publicPath: '',
    },
  },
};

This is actually the default value for publicPath, so it is weird that baseUrl does not allow this value.

[yyx990803]

Hmm, publicPath or baseUrl should either be / or .. Does . work for you?

[sjoerdvisscher]

. almost works, there is another bug that generates a url .css/...

[yyx990803]

@sjoerdvisscher that seems to be a legit bug - can you provide some more details?

[sjoerdvisscher]

I get:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href=.favicon.ico><title>mmm</title><link rel=preload as=script href=.js/vendor.b654b3dd.js><link rel=preload as=script href=.js/app.8878312f.js><link rel=preload as=style href=.css/app.d8788300.css>

The actual stylesheet link and the script src urls are correct. (They start with ./)

But why can't it be the empty string, it's the default for webpack: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/#output-publicpath

[sjoerdvisscher]

basePath: './' does work properly, so I'll be using that for now.

[lsorber]

Can this issue be reevaluated? Motivation is as follows:

We've tried all permutations of baseUrl values ('', '.', './', '/') and none of these allow the build process to output relative paths (e.g., src="assets/image.png").

To achieve this it seems the baseUrl should be set to '', but this is not allowed currently. What is the reasoning behind this? Is there a way to achieve relative references to assets such as in the example above?

[yyx990803]

This will be possible in the next release.

[stofte]

Sorry to be a troll, but are the docs just made up then? I dont think I ever heard of premature documentation. https://cli.vuejs.org/config/#baseurl