diff --git a/cli/htmgo/tasks/astgen/entry.go b/cli/htmgo/tasks/astgen/entry.go
index 6c45551..bc385a3 100644
--- a/cli/htmgo/tasks/astgen/entry.go
+++ b/cli/htmgo/tasks/astgen/entry.go
@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ import (
 	"go/parser"
 	"go/token"
 	"golang.org/x/mod/modfile"
+	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
+	"unicode"
 )
 
 type Page struct {
@@ -37,6 +39,32 @@ const ModuleName = "github.com/maddalax/htmgo/framework/h"
 var PackageName = fmt.Sprintf("package %s", GeneratedDirName)
 var GeneratedFileLine = fmt.Sprintf("// Package %s THIS FILE IS GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT.", GeneratedDirName)
 
+func toPascaleCase(input string) string {
+	words := strings.Split(input, "_")
+	for i := range words {
+		words[i] = strings.Title(strings.ToLower(words[i]))
+	}
+	return strings.Join(words, "")
+}
+
+func isValidGoVariableName(name string) bool {
+	// Variable name must not be empty
+	if name == "" {
+		return false
+	}
+	// First character must be a letter or underscore
+	if !unicode.IsLetter(rune(name[0])) && name[0] != '_' {
+		return false
+	}
+	// Remaining characters must be letters, digits, or underscores
+	for _, char := range name[1:] {
+		if !unicode.IsLetter(char) && !unicode.IsDigit(char) && char != '_' {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
 func normalizePath(path string) string {
 	return strings.ReplaceAll(path, `\`, "/")
 }
@@ -390,6 +418,63 @@ func writePagesFile() {
 	})
 }
 
+func writeAssetsFile() {
+	cwd := process.GetWorkingDir()
+	config := dirutil.GetConfig()
+	distAssets := filepath.Join(cwd, "assets", "dist")
+	hasAssets := false
+
+	builder := strings.Builder{}
+
+	builder.WriteString(`package assets`)
+	builder.WriteString("\n")
+
+	filepath.WalkDir(distAssets, func(path string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		if d.IsDir() {
+			return nil
+		}
+
+		if strings.HasPrefix(d.Name(), ".") {
+			return nil
+		}
+
+		path = strings.ReplaceAll(path, distAssets, "")
+		httpUrl := fmt.Sprintf("%s%s", config.PublicAssetPath, path)
+
+		path = normalizePath(path)
+		path = strings.ReplaceAll(path, "/", "_")
+		path = strings.ReplaceAll(path, "//", "_")
+
+		name := strings.ReplaceAll(path, ".", "_")
+		name = strings.ReplaceAll(name, "-", "_")
+
+		name = toPascaleCase(name)
+
+		if isValidGoVariableName(name) {
+			builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(`const %s = "%s"`, name, httpUrl))
+			builder.WriteString("\n")
+			hasAssets = true
+		}
+
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	builder.WriteString("\n")
+
+	str := builder.String()
+
+	if hasAssets {
+		WriteFile(filepath.Join(GeneratedDirName, "assets", "assets-generated.go"), func(content *ast.File) string {
+			return str
+		})
+	}
+
+}
+
 func GetModuleName() string {
 	wd := process.GetWorkingDir()
 	modPath := filepath.Join(wd, "go.mod")
@@ -411,6 +496,7 @@ func GenAst(flags ...process.RunFlag) error {
 	}
 	writePartialsFile()
 	writePagesFile()
+	writeAssetsFile()
 
 	WriteFile("__htmgo/setup-generated.go", func(content *ast.File) string {
 
diff --git a/framework/config/project.go b/framework/config/project.go
index 33f6cfc..33b3d07 100644
--- a/framework/config/project.go
+++ b/framework/config/project.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package config
 
 import (
+	"github.com/maddalax/htmgo/cli/htmgo/tasks/process"
 	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
 	"log/slog"
 	"os"
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ type ProjectConfig struct {
 	WatchFiles                    []string `yaml:"watch_files"`
 	AutomaticPageRoutingIgnore    []string `yaml:"automatic_page_routing_ignore"`
 	AutomaticPartialRoutingIgnore []string `yaml:"automatic_partial_routing_ignore"`
+	PublicAssetPath               string   `yaml:"public_asset_path"`
 }
 
 func DefaultProjectConfig() *ProjectConfig {
@@ -25,6 +27,7 @@ func DefaultProjectConfig() *ProjectConfig {
 		WatchFiles: []string{
 			"**/*.go", "**/*.html", "**/*.css", "**/*.js", "**/*.json", "**/*.yaml", "**/*.yml", "**/*.md",
 		},
+		PublicAssetPath: "/public",
 	}
 }
 
@@ -57,9 +60,19 @@ func (cfg *ProjectConfig) Enhance() *ProjectConfig {
 		}
 	}
 
+	if cfg.PublicAssetPath == "" {
+		cfg.PublicAssetPath = "/public"
+	}
+
 	return cfg
 }
 
+func Get() *ProjectConfig {
+	cwd := process.GetWorkingDir()
+	config := FromConfigFile(cwd)
+	return config
+}
+
 func FromConfigFile(workingDir string) *ProjectConfig {
 	defaultCfg := DefaultProjectConfig()
 	names := []string{"htmgo.yaml", "htmgo.yml", "_htmgo.yaml", "_htmgo.yml"}
diff --git a/framework/config/project_test.go b/framework/config/project_test.go
index bb492a0..197f4b9 100644
--- a/framework/config/project_test.go
+++ b/framework/config/project_test.go
@@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ func TestShouldPrefixAutomaticPartialRoutingIgnore_1(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, []string{"partials/somefile/*"}, cfg.AutomaticPartialRoutingIgnore)
 }
 
+func TestPublicAssetPath(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	cfg := DefaultProjectConfig()
+	assert.Equal(t, "/public", cfg.PublicAssetPath)
+
+	cfg.PublicAssetPath = "/assets"
+	assert.Equal(t, "/assets", cfg.PublicAssetPath)
+}
+
 func writeConfigFile(t *testing.T, content string) string {
 	temp := os.TempDir()
 	os.Mkdir(temp, 0755)
diff --git a/htmgo-site/pages/base/root.go b/htmgo-site/pages/base/root.go
index 84e2c93..03e546f 100644
--- a/htmgo-site/pages/base/root.go
+++ b/htmgo-site/pages/base/root.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package base
 import (
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
 	"github.com/maddalax/htmgo/framework/h"
+	"htmgo-site/__htmgo/assets"
 	"htmgo-site/partials"
 )
 
@@ -43,8 +44,8 @@ func ConfigurableRootPage(ctx *h.RequestContext, props RootPageProps) *h.Page {
 				h.Title(
 					h.Text(title),
 				),
-				h.Link("/public/favicon.ico", "icon"),
-				h.Link("/public/apple-touch-icon.png", "apple-touch-icon"),
+				h.Link(assets.FaviconIco, "icon"),
+				h.Link(assets.AppleTouchIconPng, "apple-touch-icon"),
 				h.Meta("charset", "utf-8"),
 				h.Meta("author", "htmgo"),
 				h.Meta("description", description),
@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@ func ConfigurableRootPage(ctx *h.RequestContext, props RootPageProps) *h.Page {
 				h.Link("canonical", canonical),
 				h.Link("https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@docsearch/css@3", "stylesheet"),
 				h.Meta("og:description", description),
-				h.LinkWithVersion("/public/main.css", "stylesheet", Version),
-				h.ScriptWithVersion("/public/htmgo.js", Version),
+				h.LinkWithVersion(assets.MainCss, "stylesheet", Version),
+				h.ScriptWithVersion(assets.HtmgoJs, Version),
 				h.Style(`
 				html {
 					scroll-behavior: smooth;
diff --git a/htmgo-site/pages/docs/htmx-extensions/overview.go b/htmgo-site/pages/docs/htmx-extensions/overview.go
index 56c59d2..46c83b7 100644
--- a/htmgo-site/pages/docs/htmx-extensions/overview.go
+++ b/htmgo-site/pages/docs/htmx-extensions/overview.go
@@ -61,20 +61,3 @@ h.JoinExtensions(
     h.HxExtension("my-extension"),
 )
 `
-
-const htmxExtensions = `
-h.HxOnLoad
-h.HxOnAfterSwap
-h.OnClick
-h.OnSubmit
-h.HxBeforeSseMessage
-h.HxAfterSseMessage
-h.OnClick
-h.OnSubmit
-h.HxOnSseError
-h.HxOnSseClose
-h.HxOnSseConnecting
-h.HxOnSseOpen
-h.HxAfterRequest
-h.HxOnMutationError
-`
diff --git a/templates/starter/htmgo.yml b/templates/starter/htmgo.yml
index 7647094..3074bbe 100644
--- a/templates/starter/htmgo.yml
+++ b/templates/starter/htmgo.yml
@@ -16,3 +16,6 @@ automatic_page_routing_ignore: ["root.go"]
 # files or directories to ignore when automatically registering routes for partials
 # supports glob patterns through https://github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar
 automatic_partial_routing_ignore: []
+
+# url path of where the public assets are located
+public_asset_path: "/public"
diff --git a/templates/starter/main.go b/templates/starter/main.go
index bab347c..a33919b 100644
--- a/templates/starter/main.go
+++ b/templates/starter/main.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
+	"github.com/maddalax/htmgo/framework/config"
 	"github.com/maddalax/htmgo/framework/h"
 	"github.com/maddalax/htmgo/framework/service"
 	"io/fs"
@@ -10,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 
 func main() {
 	locator := service.NewLocator()
+	cfg := config.Get()
 
 	h.Start(h.AppOpts{
 		ServiceLocator: locator,
@@ -23,7 +26,10 @@ func main() {
 
 			http.FileServerFS(sub)
 
-			app.Router.Handle("/public/*", http.StripPrefix("/public", http.FileServerFS(sub)))
+			// change this in htmgo.yml (public_asset_path)
+			app.Router.Handle(fmt.Sprintf("%s/*", cfg.PublicAssetPath),
+				http.StripPrefix(cfg.PublicAssetPath, http.FileServerFS(sub)))
+
 			__htmgo.Register(app.Router)
 		},
 	})
diff --git a/templates/starter/pages/root.go b/templates/starter/pages/root.go
index c228349..e6e5a0f 100644
--- a/templates/starter/pages/root.go
+++ b/templates/starter/pages/root.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package pages
 
 import (
 	"github.com/maddalax/htmgo/framework/h"
+	"starter-template/__htmgo/assets"
 )
 
 func RootPage(children ...h.Ren) *h.Page {
@@ -20,8 +21,8 @@ func RootPage(children ...h.Ren) *h.Page {
 					h.Text(title),
 				),
 				h.Meta("viewport", "width=device-width, initial-scale=1"),
-				h.Link("/public/favicon.ico", "icon"),
-				h.Link("/public/apple-touch-icon.png", "apple-touch-icon"),
+				h.Link(assets.FaviconIco, "icon"),
+				h.Link(assets.AppleTouchIconPng, "apple-touch-icon"),
 				h.Meta("title", title),
 				h.Meta("charset", "utf-8"),
 				h.Meta("author", author),
@@ -30,8 +31,8 @@ func RootPage(children ...h.Ren) *h.Page {
 				h.Meta("og:url", url),
 				h.Link("canonical", url),
 				h.Meta("og:description", description),
-				h.Link("/public/main.css", "stylesheet"),
-				h.Script("/public/htmgo.js"),
+				h.Link(assets.MainCss, "stylesheet"),
+				h.Script(assets.HtmgoJs),
 			),
 			h.Body(
 				h.Div(