Assets in the Cloudby Robert Lemke

What the Asset?

WebserverDatabaseShared Filesystem

WebserverDatabaseCloud Storage

WebserverDatabaseCloud Storage

WebserverDatabaseCloud Storage

WebserverDatabaseCloud StorageDropbox / GDrive

CDN

ON

Building Blocks

ResourceA resource is the atom of assets; it is the representation of data which is usually stored as a file. It is best practice to not share Resource objects between multiple parents.

Resource PointerThere are NO Resource Pointer objects anymore in Flow 3.0.

Static vs PersistentStatic resources are deployed as part of the code base. They never change during runtime. Persistent resources is data uploaded, created or imported by the application. Each resource is registered in the database.

StorageResources are stored in internal storages which are only accessible to your application. There are writeable and read-only storages.

Publishing TargetResources are published to Publishing Targets. The Publishing Target provides a public URL to a single or multiple resources.

CollectionEach resource belongs to one collection. A collection defines the storage and publishing target to use for the contained resources.

Common Tasks

Publish to a CDN

Import a PDF file

Upload an image

Get a URL for a resource

Media

Asset

Image

Audio

Document

Video

Image Variant

Crop Adjustment

B/W Adjustment

Thumbnail

What else?

S3 / WebDAV / GDrive …

CSS path rewriting

Filters

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