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I also had some struggle working with these two directories in Quasar. So I was very happy when I found this page in the documentation. The difference between assets and statics is described as follows:
Assets vs Statics
Files in the “assets” folder are only included in your build if they have a
literal reference in one of your Vue files. Every file and folder from the > “statics” folder are copied into your production build as-is, no matter what.
So I guess that you currently do not use any of the files inside the assets directory in at least one of your components.
Example: One possible way to make logo.png be part of the dist folder is to use the asset in a Vue component like this (also taken from the docs): <img src="~assets/logo.png">. Afterwards run quasar build and check the output in your dist folder. Good luck!