Grails Asset-Pipeline system with 3rd party libs

Question

Grails 2.4 is now using the Asset Pipeline for managing and processing static assets in Grails applications instead of the Resources system. Th

Answer 1

That works fine for assets under the assets folder, but given the proliferation of web components and javascript frameworks, we often find ourselves checking out external projects, outside of a Grails project, that we want to package and distribute with our application. You also have cases where the front end of an application is worked on by front-end developers who aren't grails developers, and they use different tools to develop and test the front end in a manner that is disconnected from the grails REST services.

So, rather than copying the assets of an external project into your grails app how do you make a reference to external folders, that will insure that those assets will be included with your app whenever you run the app during development, and when you WAR the app for deployment?