Simon Willison’s Weblog

19th April 2020

TIL Running a Python ASGI app on Vercel — Vercel really wants you to deploy static assets with [serverless functions](https://vercel.com/docs/serverless-functions/introduction) tucked away in a separate folder. They suggest creating modules like `api/index.py` which will be served up automatically as API backends to your client-side JavaScript.

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Posted 19th April 2020 at 10:28 pm

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