Build with Relative URLs

Feature request

If there was a feature to build with relative urls, we could run the files without opening a server. Might be something like:
vuepress build --relative

And urls would be like:
assets/js/5.3ca37a5b.js
instead of:
/assets/js/5.3ca37a5b.js

What problem does this feature solve?

Run static files without a server.

Are you willing to work on this yourself?**

Sure.

[ulivz]

Change you base to ""

@ulivz
I've already tried couple of base configs. And i tried again like yours. It doesn't work.
Paths are still start with /.
Can you open the issue again?

[petzerhub]

@atilkan
Probably related to #387 (see #387 (comment)), also #575 and #667
As i understand vuepress just cannot be used without a static server (see #667 (comment)).

@petzerhub
I changed paths manually and some of it worked.

[ulivz]

Since "" is negative, so "" truly doesn't work for now (it will fallback to "/") ...

We need to enhance it.

[tiptronic]

What timeframe do you expect for this enhancement? I am about starting a new project and this is really required. (Manually changing the paths later is simply pita - but I'm sure, you guessed that already ;))

[rebz]

Any updates on this? Working on a project that would be perfect for VuePress, but need to build out with relative URLs as the deliverable will live on a Windows Filesystem.

[benmccann]

It looks to me like this may be supported in html-webpack-plugin 4.0.0 jantimon/html-webpack-plugin#1114

However, vuepress uses a fork 4816bef of that plugin (#1303), so we'd need to update the fork or switch back to html-webpack-plugin

[BernardZhao]

Any more updates on this?

[shigma]

@BernardZhao @atilkan

I wrote a plugin which may satisfy your needs.

vuepress serve docs

And vuepress will build with absolute URLs and then serve them.