I have sampleposition.png in my assets folder, and a page called myPage.js in my components folder. How do I reference the sampleposition.png in my assets folder from myPage.js. I've tried src="../assets/sampleposition.png" /
but that doesn't seem to be working.
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Jon
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The idiomatic way to achieve what you want is to use a bundler (such as webpack) and a "compiler" (such as babeljs), and instead use an `import` statement so you can use the image as a component. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66410782/how-to-load-image-react-babel – Alan Sep 08 '21 at 16:39
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37644265/correct-path-for-img-on-react-js – CuteShaun Sep 08 '21 at 16:40
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If you are using Create React App, the process is fairly easy and straight-forward.
Are you import
ing it or doing something like <img src="../whatever/>
? You need to be import
ing so that the build will know how to access it at runtime. See Adding Images, Fonts, and Files
import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.png'; // Tell webpack this JS file uses this image
console.log(logo); // /logo.84287d09.png
function Header() {
// Import result is the URL of your image
return <img src={logo} alt="Logo" />;
}
export default Header;
If you aren't, you need to be serving the content statically and referencing the static content address or use a build/bundle tool to put the content into a place that is known ahead of time which is what the create-react-app tool sets up for you.

zero298
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Import your image and use it in the code. This should do it according to your requirement.
import React from 'react';
import myImage from '../assets/sampleposition.png';
function YourFunction() {
return
<img src={myImage} alt="myImage" />;
}
export default YourFunction;

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