Static Assets

Besides dynamically generated content, most websites also load other files which are static, such as images, JavaScript and stylesheets. These files need not be dynamically generated upon requests. We call them "static assets" and Skygear provides two ways to serve these static assets.

1. Simple approach: using the public_html directory in your cloud code.
2. More customized approach: using the static_assets decorator to have a function specifying the locations of the static assets.

Put your static assets in a directory

The simplest way to serve static assets to your users is to put them into a directory called public_html in your cloud code directory. The static assets you put in this folder will be automatically available at http://<endpoint>/static/.

For example, if your cloud code project contains a file saved at ./public_html/images/hero.png, your user will be able to access it at http://<endpoint>/static/images/hero.png.

Declare your static assets using decorator

If your cloud code project is more complex, or if you cannot put your static assets in the public_html directory, you can also declare your static assets using the static_assets decorator so that Skygear knows where to find your static assets.

import skygear
from skygear.utils.assets import directory_assets


@skygear.static_assets('hello-world')
def set_hello_world_assets():
    return directory_assets('my-assets/files')

In the above example, Skygear will find your static assets at ./my-assets/files/hero.png if the user makes a request to http://<endpoint>/static/hello-world/hero.png.