Base Paths

Evidence supports serving your app from a subdirectory. For example, you can serve your app from https://acme.com/analytics.

This can be useful for embedded reporting, where you want to use the root domain for your main app and serve Evidence reports from a subdirectory.

Configuring the Base Path

Add the following to evidence.config.yaml at the project root:

deployment:
  basePath: /my-base-path

All links in your markdown files will be automatically adjusted to include the base path.

The base path must:

• Start with a /
• Not end with a /
• Be a valid URL path

Your pages/index.md file will be served from https://my-domain.com/my-base-path, and other pages will be served relative to this path.

Configuring the Build Directory

Evidence builds your app to the build directory, rather than to build/my-base-path.

To modify the build directory, set the EVIDENCE_BUILD_DIR environment variable:

  "build": "EVIDENCE_BUILD_DIR=./build/my-base-path evidence build"

This is required to use the npm run preview command, or else the preview will not run correctly.

Custom Components

Custom components links are not automatically adjusted to include the base path. Links should be adjusted using the addBasePath utility function, which adjusts relative links to include the base path.

For example:

CustomLink.svelte:

<script>
  export let link;
  import { addBasePath } from '@evidence-dev/sdk/utils/svelte';
</script>

<a href={addBasePath(link)}>My Component</a>

Evidence Cloud

Deploying apps with custom base paths is supported in Evidence Cloud's Enterprise plan.