What is the assets folder for in laravel?

Question

Laravel

The question is very controversial and primitive, but that's why it is the 99th in my collection.
vshost is set to blah-blah-blah/public
Accordingly, the assets folder is outside the root.
What is its essence? there and sass daddy lies and css. Thus, with the connection of css, a headache arises.
Am I doing the right thing by creating both css and js and images in the public folder... And I already include src(href) /href(src)="/css(js)/....
But what are assets for?

Answer 1

The /assets folder usually contains uncompiled styles and scripts. Coffescript, sass, less... that's it. And in theory, you need to configure Elixir (an add-on for the gulp) so that it sends already concatenated and minified files to /public.
Such matters, I hope, clarified.