Serving static files on heroku

Question

I'm creating a Python app for heroku. Flask is used for the web component of the app.

But the problem is that I can't find a way to serve static files. I don't want to do it through flask because that is very inefficient.

I'm also using gunicorn. How would I set up serving of static files?

Answer 1

Try using Amazon s3 for storing static and media files. Here is heroku's documentation of using s3. Then you might want to disable automatic collectstatic instructions here so collectstatic isn't run every time you push to heroku. Hope this helps.