relative link in vue returns with nothing - vue.js

Question

I have got two components in vue, one with lightbox for images and one for playing audio. I got relative links to the assets but either the images or the audio is being displayed and played. First I thought it was an issue with the component itself but since it doesnt work on either of these it might be something else.
If I provide an absolut url it works however fine for some reason
This doesnt work either when I build the application or locally:
export default {
components: {
VueLitebox,
"vue-audio": VueAudio
},
data() {
return {
// AUDIO
file1: "../assets/music/myfile.mp3",
// LITEBOX
images: [
".../assets/img/myimage.jpg",
This works fine:
export default {
components: {
VueLitebox,
"vue-audio": VueAudio
},
data() {
return {
// AUDIO
file1: "http://mypage.com/music/myfile.mp3",
// LITEBOX
images: [
"http://mypage.com/img/myimage.jpg",
I can of course upload the images and music separate and make it work but it feels a bit inconvenient.
What can be wrong?
UPDATE:
Thanks for the answers. Now I got two methods. And both actually works.
One is to put all my assets in the public folder. That solved it with a link like:
"/assets/img/myimage.jpg",
The other way is to using require.
require("../assets/img/myimage.jpg"),
Both works but is there a prefered way?

Answer 1

You should use require when using assets
file1: require("../assets/music/myfile.mp3")
Without require webpack won’t know that you want to bundle that asset and your path will remain unchanged. Actually webpack knows how to handle this kind of files thru the use of plugins and not out of the box.
Regarding the fact that it works with absolute path and not relative ones.
Your relative path is valid in the local file system on your dev server. When deploying the app you are not running in the local file system, but on the web. Even though relative paths are resolved using a similar algorithm, your results will depend on the URL where the component is used and not on the path of the vue file.
For example if the component is rendered on a URL of the form
https://example.com/list/
The relative path would resolve to https://example.com/assets which is probably what you want. But on the following URL
https://example.com/list/1/
Will resolve to https://example.com/list/assest which isn’t what you’d expect.
Webpack takes care of this problems (to some degree, you need to be sure that you don’t mess up the base tag).