NestJS - assets & views folder not being added to dist

You can copy those folders into the dist folder by adding these lines to your nest-cli.json file:

  "compilerOptions": {    
    "assets": [
      {
        "include": "../assets",
        "outDir": "dist/public",
        "watchAssets": true
      },
      {
        "include": "../views",
        "outDir": "dist/views",
        "watchAssets": true
      }
    ],
    "watchAssets": true
  }

Also make sure nest-cli.json is included while building the app (example: from Dockerfile)

I added my own build.js script when running yarn build:

package.json:

"build": "nest build && node build.js"

It copies the views and assets folders into the dist build folder.

build.js:

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');

copyFolderRecursiveSync('views', 'dist');
copyFolderRecursiveSync('assets', 'dist');

function copyFileSync(source, target) {
  let targetFile = target;

  // If target is a directory, a new file with the same name will be created
  if (fs.existsSync(target)) {
    if (fs.lstatSync(target).isDirectory()) {
      targetFile = path.join(target, path.basename(source));
    }
  }

  fs.writeFileSync(targetFile, fs.readFileSync(source));
}

function copyFolderRecursiveSync(source, target) {
  let files = [];

  // Check if folder needs to be created or integrated
  const targetFolder = path.join(target, path.basename(source));
  if (!fs.existsSync(targetFolder)) {
    fs.mkdirSync(targetFolder);
  }

  // Copy
  if (fs.lstatSync(source).isDirectory()) {
    files = fs.readdirSync(source);
    files.forEach(function (file) {
      const curSource = path.join(source, file);
      if (fs.lstatSync(curSource).isDirectory()) {
        copyFolderRecursiveSync(curSource, targetFolder);
      } else {
        copyFileSync(curSource, targetFolder);
      }
    });
  }
}