I have a route on the path /src/routes/[first]/[[second]]/+page.ts.
So far so good.
But! Now I also have static assets such as /static/attachments/image1.jpg. These assets are unreachable because the [first]/[[second]] route gets in the way.
To clarify, if I write an anchor tag such as <a href="/attachments/image1.jpg">Download the picture</a>, clicking this link will lead the visitor's browser to try to run the [first]/[[second]] route, not just download the asset.
Sidenote: oddly enough, it works fine with img tags, i.e.
<img src="/attachments/image1.jpg"></img> will render an image as intended. So the path exists. I just need to make the SvelteKit router understand that for the a tag too.
Question: is there something like a way to "throw redirect()" to treat an URL as just an asset?
PS: yes I know about the possibility of importing the assets via Javascript using import statements, which would be ideal, but not an option since my anchor tags are autogenerated coming from inside a {@html post.content} expression. So I must use static asset paths.
You have to add the rel="external" attribute to your link tag. Please see the SvelteKit documentation about Link options for details about this. A data-sveltekit-reload might not what you are looking for as you try to link an asset and want to prevent a svelte route to be linked.