feat: add django-whitenoise

highscore/app/settings.py

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO", "https")
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     "django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
+    "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",
     "django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware",
@@ -122,3 +123,26 @@ USE_TZ = True
 # them, so the prefix must be added manually for the admin assets to load under
 # the /scores sub-path.
 STATIC_URL = f"{FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME.rstrip('/')}/static/"
+STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / "staticfiles"
+
+# WhiteNoise serves static files directly from the app (no separate web server
+# needed), with compression and far-future cache headers. In production the
+# manifest backend hashes filenames for cache-busting (requires collectstatic);
+# locally we skip the manifest and serve straight from the finders so no
+# collectstatic step is needed.
+STORAGES = {
+    "default": {
+        "BACKEND": "django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage",
+    },
+    "staticfiles": {
+        "BACKEND": (
+            "whitenoise.storage.CompressedStaticFilesStorage"
+            if DEBUG
+            else "whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage"
+        ),
+    },
+}
+
+# Serve static files from the app dirs in development (we run under daphne, which
+# does not auto-serve static like runserver does).
+WHITENOISE_USE_FINDERS = DEBUG