how to add specific folder to generated exe

[sick nacelle]

i have react app i want to add specific folder outside app how to acces to it directly without fetch
i mean like this .../specificfolder/img1.png

[queen cloak]

with absolute or relative path

[sick nacelle]

how

[queen cloak]

with ..

[sick nacelle]

beacause i have api to save all image in the specific folder and i want to acces to this images directly

but i cant configure it in electron

and electron not let me to specify folder to install it

[queen cloak]

what?

you can access it directly by path

[sick nacelle]

i want to add other folder outside app andd acces it directly from front

[queen cloak]

you can access it by absolute path

[sick nacelle]

you can explain because with absolute path i cant

[queen cloak]

Do you know what absolute path is?

[midnight flint]

You can make a folder named static outside the src folder, add any file (eg icon.ico) there and then use path.join(__static, "icon.ico") to get the path. You'll have to import path like this: import * as path from "path";

This is my folder structure. I use electron builder to package my app

[sick nacelle]

the problem i have a middlware save picture from cloud to specific folder like c:/images

and my electron app exe cant access to this folder to read all image directly

i hope you understand me