default value for project/@stage

[Alex-Jordan]

In a project file, the default value for project/@output-dir is output. And the default value for project/@stage is output/stage. If you override the first default, with say project/@output-dir="myoutput" and then you deploy, it creates an output/stage/ folder (creating the intermediate output/ folder) and now your file tree has both output/ and myoutput/.

Thoughts on making stage just not be a subfolder of output?

[StevenClontz]

Hot take, I forget why we put the default stage in output (maybe just to be lazy with gitignores), but I think having stage as a sibling of output makes sense.

[oscarlevin]

I don't love having another root-level folder for this, as for most users currently, stage will be identical to output/web. I think having both will be confusing.

No reason we can't get the location of stage to be relative to the value of project/@stage with default being the stage subdirectory of the actual project/@output directory.