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Russian BlueOP
Hey..,how can I modify this middleware matcher so that public folder paths are excluded? 
export const config = {
  matcher: [
    /*
     * Match all request paths except for the ones starting with:
     * - api (API routes)
     * - _next/static (static files)
     * - _next/image (image optimization files)
     */
    '/((?!api|_next/static|_next/image).*)',
  ],
}

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Russian BlueOP
My assets are in public/static-assets
Adding it like this seems to work:
'/((?!api|_next/static|_next/image|static-assets).*)',

but I’m a little confused by this from the docs:

Good to know: For backward compatibility, Next.js always considers /public as /public/index. Therefore, a matcher of /public/:path will match.

What does it mean?
tafutada777
if you need to match /public, you need to specify /public/:path* (with *, zero or more, or ['/public', '/public/:path'])
but actually, for backward compatibility, /public is considered as /public/index
so, you don't need *, just /public/:path is okay, because it matches /public/index