Use whitenoise to serve static files

pyproject.toml

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "sentry-sdk>=2.19.2",
     "setuptools>=75.6.0",             # Needed by django-bootstrap-form
     "typenv>=0.2.0",
+    "whitenoise>=6.8.2",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]

src/comics/settings.py

@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
     "django.contrib.messages",
     "django.contrib.sessions",
     "django.contrib.sites",
+    "whitenoise.runserver_nostatic",  # Before staticfiles
     "django.contrib.staticfiles",
 ]
 LOCAL_APPS = [
@@ -128,6 +129,7 @@
 #
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     "django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
+    "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.http.ConditionalGetMiddleware",
     "django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware",
@@ -266,6 +268,15 @@
 TIME_FORMAT = "H:i"
 
 
+# Storage backends
+#
+STORAGES = {
+    "staticfiles": {
+        "BACKEND": "whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage",
+    }
+}
+
+
 # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
 #
 # Path on disk to where static files will be collected to and served from.
@@ -293,6 +304,9 @@
 
 # Static files - django-compressor
 #
+# Compress files offline to enable WhiteNoise to serve the generated files.
+COMPRESS_OFFLINE = True
+#
 # Explicitly use HtmlParser to avoid depending on BeautifulSoup through the use
 # of LxmlParser
 COMPRESS_PARSER = "compressor.parser.HtmlParser"

src/comics/urls.py

@@ -43,6 +43,3 @@
         pass
     else:
         urlpatterns += debug_toolbar_urls()
-
-
-urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL)