Assets from module not appearing in pub/static folder

Question

Running Magento 2.1

I am building a module with alert.js in the /view/frontend/web/ folder in my module: https://github.com/waynhall/frontend1/tree/master/Pulsestorm/FrontendTutorial1

However, after enabling the module and running magento setup:upgrade and magento setup:di:compile and reloading the homepage to generate the pub/static folder, there is no folder here as I would expect:

/var/www/magento.dev/public_html/pub/static/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/Pulsestorm_FrontendTutorial1/ in order to serve the alert.js

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Run following command to generate pub/static directory

sudo php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy 

Answer 2

in case if u have enabled opcache in your php.ini u will not see immediately the result. Also the images from the module are not added into pub/static folder. therefore to clear opcache do:

systemctl restart php<<version.minor>>-fpm i.e. systemctl restart php7.4-fpm