Compute public URI based on path

[kadamwhite]

I've observed that incorrect URI generation can be a foot gun (why isn't my script loading / I used the wrong function to compute the URI or typo'd a file path), while the structure of a WordPress project is very consistent. We have code in the asset-loader repository which can be used to automatically compute a URI based on a file system path. Could we consider bringing that code into here so that we don't need to specify the URI, only the path?

[roborourke]

Yeah if it saves a step or can be used to provide a default then all good. I was just reflecting what the core function requires really. I guess the only thing to consider is that you could be modifying the src and build paths via wp-scripts parameters, but we'd probably run into further problems with this in that instance anyway.