Using static files

Usually web applications make use of CSS and JavaScript resources to provide a better user experience. For efficiency reasons, such content is not dynamically served by the WSGI application and are delivered by App Engine as static files instead.

We know from the previous chapter that App Engine provides two types of handlers, script handlers and static file handlers. We add a static file handler to our app.yaml configuration file like this:

handlers:
- url: /static
  static_dir: static

- url: .*
  script: main.app

The syntax is almost the same as for script handlers. We specify a URL to map as a regular expression but instead of providing a Python script to handle requests, we specify a filesystem path relative to the application root where the files and directories that need to be served as static resources are located.

Note

We are now going to provide a minimal style for our HTML pages by manually coding some CSS rules. While it is acceptable for the scope of the book...

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Python for Google App Engine

By : Pippi

Python for Google App Engine

By: Pippi

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Using static files

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Python for Google App Engine

By : Pippi

Python for Google App Engine

By: Pippi

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