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Is there a way to ensure certain files that aren't in the app tree make it into the @svelte.dev Kit build output? I have a background process that pulls a file from a relative import. Works fine in dev. Can't find the file in prod :/

You can probably use the `read` function depending on how you are reading the file svelte.dev/docs/kit/$ap... Another option would be to manually copy the file after the build

Sadly, this did not work because it's a JS file. Oh well :/

Can you explain a little better the situation? What are you doing with the JS file? Where are you deploying?

Sure. Im deploying to a node server because I need background tasks to run. Using node-cron to run these, and there's a feature where tasks can run as background processes if you provide a file path. As such, node-cron tries to import that file, but it doesn't exist in the build output

Currently, I'm getting around this issue by registering the js module, rather than the file location. This doesn't support background processes, but it's a decent stop gap. I don't think node is the right place for background tasks anyway. But off the main process would be ideal.

In this case I would probably just write a script that runs after the build and copies the js file to a known location.