Flask blueprint without a static_folder

[hollabigj]

Hi,

What if the business/corporation/or senior architecture/designer do not want to have a static folder in the directory. IE static_folder

Would it possible to add static_css and static_javascript or override the constructor to point each desirable directory paths without strictly adhere static_folder or have a static folder in the parent directory.

So, it can serve css and javascript without a static folder.

For example:

index = Blueprint('index', name, template_folder=html_dir, static_css=css_dir, static_js=js_dir)

This cannot be achieved:

index = Blueprint('index', name, template_folder=html_dir, static_folder=multi_dir)

multi_dir points to the parent directory and html css link and script points to css and js/lib directories. It does not work at all.

If it can be overrided, how?

[tachyondecay]

Nothing stops you from doing this already—you just wouldn’t be able to generate URLs dynamically and would instead have to hardcode them.

If you want to use url_for, then you will need to add new endpoints that correspond to your additional folders.

If you want to do this at the blueprint level, you can sublcass the Blueprint class and add your custom URL rules there. See the following lines from Blueprint.register(), which is where blueprints register their static folder endpoints (but you could probably get away with just overriding Blueprint.__init__()

flask/src/flask/blueprints.py

Lines 325 to 330 in 1888df3

	if self.has_static_folder:
	state.add_url_rule(
	f"{self.static_url_path}/<path:filename>",
	view_func=self.send_static_file,
	endpoint="static",
	)