Serve static files with Eve

Question

I am running Flask and Eve on localhost at a same time. The Flask app serves static files and makes requests to the Eve app to get some data. I want to run Eve only, without a separate Flask app. How can I serve static files with Eve?

Answer 1

A better approach will be to prefix the /api for all REST APIs. This can be done by adding URL_PREFIX="api" in settings.py.

By doing this whenever there is request to /, Eve(Flask) will not return the resource catalog instead returns the page as given in run.py.

To serve static content add route decorators accordingly in run.py,

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return app.send_static_file('index.html')

app.run(host="0.0.0.0", debug=True)