Does this static site generation copy over public files like favicon, manifest.json etc?

[MeikyuuTrader]

I've used npm run production and php please ssg:generate to generate myself a static statamic site, however, it doesn't seem to copy over files from the public folder like favicon or manifest.json.

Under storage/app/public there's only a .gitignore file, is this by design?

How do you copy a file from public, like manifest.json into the public folder for the static site? I just copying over manifest.json from /public into storage/app/public and it doesn't exist. Do I put it into the root storage/app/static?

Edit

Answering my own question, yes, need to copy over favicons, manifest.json and other public files to storage/app/static. Not sure if there's an inbuilt command from statamic/ssg for this.

If you're trying to make a PWA using this guide exactly, then the below script (put into package.json) will be helpful to automatically copy over public files and put them into the static location. Run npm run copy after php please ssrg:generate

"copy": "cp public/*.png public/favicon.ico public/manifest.json public/robots.txt public/serviceworker.js storage/app/static/"

[duncanmcclean]

I'd recommend adding the files you wish to copy into the copy array inside the SSG config (config/statamic/ssg.php):

'copy' => [
        public_path('favicon.ico') => '',
        public_path('manifest.json') => '',
       // ...
],

[MeikyuuTrader]

The above code gives

Error exception
copy(): The second argument to copy() function cannot be a directory

Has to be like

'copy' => [
        public_path('favicon.ico') => 'favicon.ico',
        public_path('manifest.json') => 'manifest.json',
       // ...
],

Instead.

[duncanmcclean]

I didn't try it so was just giving it a guess. Glad you could sort it!