Routing static files using flask

So I'm going to go and get my head around what I know is probably a terrible way to make static files for my site. I came across a lot of other threads (which didn't quite solve my problem) that referred to the fact that I should be using a web server like apache to serve static files. I've been doing this so far for my static website, but basically I just wanted to chat with it this way for development purposes while I learn Flask and add its functionality to the website.

So basically what was giving me problems, I want to serve all my static files (JS, CSS, etc.) with Flask, and also route all my static web pages using flask (for now, so i can run my application without apache and still download all links). My application setup: I have an "app.py" with all my code and a "static" directory for all my static files and a "templates" folder for all of my web pages.

This is my code:

from flask import Flask, render_template

# Create the application object
app = Flask(__name__, static_url_path='/static')

# Routes to path
@app.route('/')
def home():
    return render_template('index.html')

# Routes to specific file, want to route all my pages instead
@app.route('/work.html')
def work():
    return render_template('work.html')

#Route methods for other webpages

# Serves static files
@app.route('/<path:path>')
def static_file(path):
    return app.send_static_file(path)

# Start the server 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

      

        
        
        
      

    

There are now a few noticable problems with this code, but unfortunately this is the best, I can get it to work correctly. First, I read a lot that "send_from_directory" instead of "send_static_file" is the correct way to send static files to Flask, but I couldn't get that to work. But currently my main problem is that I cannot route all of my static web pages this way (and I would have thought that "static_file" would do this, besides serving all my JS, CSS, etc. ); as it stands, I can route my web pages by creating a separate function in "app.py" for each web page that seems horribly inefficient. So yes, if in my code I need multiple lines, I will be very grateful forthat it is pointing in the right direction!