Unable to load background image from Css file Webpack5 - css

Question

I'm trying to put an image as background in a div but it doesn't recognize it because webpack changes the path to http://localhost:8080/gaia.png instead of http://localhost:8080/assets/images/gaia.png
The image is displayed correctly inside an tag but it doesn't load if I want to use it from the Css file.
I'm sure the problem is the file path but I don't know how to fix it.
index.js
import './assets/style/style.css'
import './assets/images/gaia.png'
import './assets/fonts/CascadiaCode.ttf'
const fun = () => {
console.log('hey')
}
fun();
webpack.config.js
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require("html-webpack-plugin");
const path = require('path');
module.exports = {
mode: 'development',
devtool: 'inline-source-map',
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
filename: 'main.js',
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
},
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
template: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src', 'index.html')
})
],
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.css$/i,
use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader'],
},
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: ["babel-loader"]
},
{
test: /\.(png|svg|jpg|jpeg|gif)$/i,
type: 'asset/resource',
generator: {
filename: '[name][ext][query]',
outputPath: 'assets/images/',
},
},
{
test: /\.(woff|woff2|eot|ttf|otf)$/i,
type: 'asset/resource',
generator: {
filename: '[name][ext][query]',
outputPath: 'assets/fonts/',
},
},
],
},
};
style.css
.container {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background-image: url("../images/gaia.png");
background-size: auto;
}

Answer 1

delete outputpath and set it up as :
generator: {
filename: 'assets/images/[hash][ext][query]'
}
}

Answer 2

I fixed the problem by installing a specific loader for Html images
npm install --save-dev html-loader image-webpack-loader
I followed this tutorial: Optimizing Static HTML And Images With Webpack
Here is my webpackconfig.js file:
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const path = require('path');
module.exports = {
mode: 'development',
devtool: 'inline-source-map',
devServer: {
static: './dist',
},
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
filename: 'main.js',
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
clean: true,
},
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
template: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src', 'index.html'),
}),
],
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.css/,
use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader'],
},
{
test: /\.html$/i,
use: 'html-loader',
},
{
test: /\.(png|jpg)$/i,
type: 'asset/resource',
generator: {
filename: 'images/[name]-[hash][ext]',
},
},
{
test: /\.(woff|woff2|eot|ttf|otf)$/i,
type: 'asset/resource',
generator: {
filename: 'fonts/[name]-[hash][ext]',
},
},
],
},
};
I also created a Webpack Template that you can use with the default configuration on my GitHub:
Webpack Template Repo