What is the recommended practice for deploying a website with a large amount of static assets?

[vedantroy]

I have a website with a ~ 250 MB video file.
I can deploy this without issue, however, the problem is building takes a long time.
For example, even sending the build context to the remote builder takes forever.
What’s the recommended workaround here?

My guess is static asset caching will help w/ this problem?

First look: static asset caching

One comment we keep getting from people building super interesting fullstack apps is: “I don’t want to have to deal with a CDN when I deploy”. Fly.io isn’t a CDN, but we do have some CDN-like infrastructure that we can do fun things with. Today’s fun thing is [[statics]] in fly.toml. Add a config section to your app like this: [[statics]] guest_path = "/app/web/dist" url_prefix = "/static" When you deploy, we’ll pull /app/web/dist out of your packaged app, then serve requests that to https://<…