To simplify the rendering of assets I created a directory /storage within my deployment. I created several API endpoints to apply CRUD operations to such files. One endpoint as such (written with Flask) was as follows:
@app.route('/api/get-metadata', methods=['GET']) def get_metadata(): with open(METADATA_PATH, 'r') as f: metadata = json.load(f) return jsonify(metadata), 200
This had no problem working locally. Now that it is deployed - the request is (pending) indefinitely and eventually times out. Locally the request is fulfilled almost instantaneously as it is very light.