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Using PHP Code to Generate Asset URLs in Magento 2
Question and answer from yours truly on using the asset repository to get the full URL to Magento 2 frontend asset files.
The short version – inject a MagentoFrameworkViewAssetRepository, use $repository->createAsset('Vendor_Module::path/to/file.js') to create an asset object, use the getUrl method on that created asset object.