.NET 8 lost the availability to change web root content folder when using Web Publishing?

[karanokara]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

By default, when publishing an ASP.NET application to a remote server, the frontend static files will be copied to \wwwroot folder.

In ASP.NET 6, I can change this remote folder when publishing by using this in my project .csproj

Here will using \Public folder rather than the default \wwwroot

<ItemGroup>
  <DistFiles Include="$(SpaRoot)build\**" />
  <ResolvedFileToPublish Include="@(DistFiles->'%(FullPath)')" Exclude="@(ResolvedFileToPublish)">
    <RelativePath>Public\%(RecursiveDir)%(FileName)%(Extension)</RelativePath>
    <CopyToPublishDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToPublishDirectory>
    <ExcludeFromSingleFile>true</ExcludeFromSingleFile>
  </ResolvedFileToPublish>
</ItemGroup>

In .NET 8, it separated the client project using .esproj and server project .csproj, and there is no configuration to modify this setting.

Describe the solution you'd like

There may be a solution there but I can't find out, but if not, could consider having it in the future?

Additional context

I am using ASP.NET 8 with React project on Windows 10
Application is published to remote Windows server 2019 via Web Deploy using Visual Studio 2022

[sundayScoop]

Same issue