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FastAPI not loading static files

So, I’m swapping my project from node.js to python FastAPI (for my convinience, I’m more acknowledged with python). Everything has been working fine with node, but here it says that my static files are not present, so here’s basic code:

from fastapi import FastAPI, Request, WebSocket
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse
from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates

app = FastAPI()

app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="../static"), name="static")
templates = Jinja2Templates(directory='../templates')

@app.get('/')
async def index_loader(request: Request):
    return templates.TemplateResponse('index.html', {"request": request})

And a project structure
Project structure

Files clearly are where they should be, but when I connect to website uvicorn raises an error:

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←[32mINFO←[0m:     connection closed
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54295 - "←[1mGET /img/separator.png HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[31m404 Not Found←[0m
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54296 - "←[1mGET /css/rajdhani.css HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[31m404 Not Found←[0m
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54295 - "←[1mGET /js/pixi.min.js HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[31m404 Not Found←[0m
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54296 - "←[1mGET /js/ease.js HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[31m404 Not Found←[0m
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54298 - "←[1mGET / HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[32m200 OK←[0m
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54298 - "←[1mGET /img/separator.png HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[31m404 Not Found←[0m
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54299 - "←[1mGET /css/rajdhani.css HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[31m404 Not Found←[0m
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54298 - "←[1mGET /js/pixi.min.js HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[31m404 Not Found←[0m
←[32mINFO←[0m:     127.0.0.1:54299 - "←[1mGET /js/ease.js HTTP/1.1←[0m" ←[31m404 Not Found←[0m

So basicly ever one static file I’m using is missing, and I have no idea what am I doing wrong, I used to do some projects with FastAPI and never encountered such a problem, and couldn’t find a word about it in docs, so I have no idea what to do to fix it.

>Solution :

Here:

app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="../static"), name="static")

You mount your static directory under /static path. That means, if you want access static files in your html you need to use static prefix, e.g. <img src="static/img/separator.png"/>

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