CloudFront (Your Own CDN)

• Host your static assets on Github and deploy to cloud
• Use file checksum to detect changes

[Compiling] Version 1
[Found] 2 entries
-[DEL] icon-waterloo.png -> 840718cf5d750b818154b5568586eae1
[Old] icon-facebook.png -> 708018bebb8b7ed725e967023b1468b8
+[New] temp.txt -> d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
[Saving JSON] /Users/johnson/cloudfront/v1.json

• All files has cache control set to a max age of 1 year, so that browser can take advantage of caching and improve website performance
• Simply place your files in v1/, then run ./deploy.sh

Deployment

• Modify & run deploy.sh

heroku git:remote -a your_app_name

• Then access your files @ https://your_app_name.herokuapp.com/static/v1/{md5_hash}.

• Here's an example. You can view all your files' md5 hash in v1.json

• Note that Heroku has a 500 mb limit with the free tier. You can opt to deploy to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud for bigger storage size.