NUXT- assets and static folder - when to use which?

Question

Being new to NUXT, I am a bit confused about the difference between the assets and static folders.

in the documentation regarding this folders it says:

Answer 1

The content of assets folder will be process by webpack, if you use pre-processor for CSS like SASS, SCSS, or Stylus it will transform into generic CSS. Or maybe you put an image on that folder, it also will be optimized by webpack for production.

And for static folder, it just a place where you can put all of your static asset, like an image for background or slider. It never touched by webpack.