Structure a flask with an angular.js

Question

How to structure flask app with angular.js front-end? What is best practice? Should I use webserver like ngnix to host static files even when I'm working on development?

With flask default, I can serve index.html like below:

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return make_response(open('static/index.html').read())

or

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return send_from_directory('static', 'index.html')

But, there is a problem where I cannot point js files without '../static' prefix. I just want to point angular.js and all others like:

<script src="lib/angular/angular.js"></script>

not

<script src="../static/lib/angular/angular.js"></script>

Can I change all static file prefix in flask? Or is there a good way to solve this problem?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you really want to, you can:

app = Flask(__name__, static_url_path='')

Although I'd just use the absolute URL:

/static/lib/angular/angular.js