Add simple CDN example for static files

[hnykda]

Hi,

I am struggling with a simple task: "serve my static files from CDN (say, public google cloud storage)". In Django, I would simply do:

STATIC_URL = "https://googleapis..."

but I can't figure out how to deal with this in starlette (I am using fastapi)

Related:

• url_for only returns URLs with an autrority component #843
• Add support for Google Cloud Storage and AWS S3 #873

[tomchristie]

I'd suggest including STATIC_URL in your template contexts, and using {STATIC_URL}/whatever.css in the template.

You'll probably also want to do some config setup so that in development you serve from http://127.0.0.1/statics and include StaticFiles in that case.

[hnykda]

Thanks, that was my backup plan, I was hoping for solution with url_for. But understandable, thanks.

Do you think it would be worth it to add it into docs to static files section? Should I do a PR?