A CDN is commonly used in two ways, as a proxy for offloading your content or as a hosting provider for common third-party libraries and frameworks. You can use a dynamic CDN service, such as CloudFlare or Akamai, for the first use case, but the second situation (using a static CDN from Google or Microsoft) is more common and that's what we'll cover here.
Although using a CDN for your libraries, such as jQuery and Twitter bootstrap, is becoming less useful with the adoption of HTTP/2, it can still be helpful for reducing your hosting costs. Also, if you use a popular CDN and library, then a user may already have a copy of some required assets. For example, if the user has been to another site that uses ...
