Load local images in React.js

Question

I have installed React using create-react-app. It installed fine, but I am trying to load an image in one of my components (Header.js, file path: <

Answer 1

In React or any Javascript modules that internally use Webpack, if the src attribute value of img is given as a path in string format as given below

e.g.  or 

then during build, the final HTML page built contains src='/src/images/logo.png'. This path is not read during build time, but is read during rendering in browser. At the rendering time, if the logo.png is not found in the /src/images directory, then the image would not render. If you open the console in browser, you can see the 404 error for the image. I believe you meant to use ./src directory instead of /src directory. In that case, the development directory ./src is not available to the browser. When the page is loaded in browser only the files in the 'public' directory are available to the browser. So, the relative path ./src is assumed to be public/src directory and if the logo.png is not found in public/src/images/ directory, it would not render the image.

So, the solution for this problem is either to put your image in the public directory and reference the relative path from public directory or use import or require keywords in React or any Javascript module to inform the Webpack to read this path during build phase and include the image in the final build output. The details of both these methods has been elaborated by Dan Abramov in his answer, please refer to it or use the link: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-images-fonts-and-files/