Directory Structure

This section describes the default directory structure for both source and compiled assets. The default directory structure follows Symfony’s best practices and conventions as much as possible, as long as they make sense for the use case.

You’re free to change this directory structure as you see fit but we recommend you use the default one. If you do change it, remember to update your gulpfile.js accordingly.

Here’s an example of the directory structure of the source assets and the corresponding compiled assets:

# Sources                    # Compiled

app/Resources                web/assets
├── images                   ├── images
│   ├── foo.png              │   ├── foo.png
├── scripts                  ├── js
│   ├── app.coffee           │   ├── app.js
└── stylesheets              └── css
    └── app.scss                 └── app.css

Source Assets

Symfony’s best practices recommend you store your source assets under web/, which means they will be publicly available. However, in our case, this doesn’t make sense because those assets are meant to be compiled: you don’t want your .scss or .coffee sources to be publicly available.

Having assets under app/Resources/ solves that problem and has the added advantage that they’re right next to the templates, under app/Resources/views/, which is the best-practice location for storing templates.

Compiled Assets

Compiled assets are publicly visible so they must be stored in a directory under web/. By default, they’re stored under web/assets.

To use a directory other than web/assets just modify your gulpfile.js accordingly:

// gulpfile.js

var config = {
  buildDir: path.join(__dirname, 'web/foo'),
  // ..
};

You also need to make sure that your bundle configuration references the correct directory:

# app/config/config.yml
rj_frontend:
    prefix: foo