feat & fix: install and configure whitenoise to serve static files in

prod

fixes: https://gitea.hostea.org/Hostea/dashboard/issues/24

.gitignore

@@ -154,3 +154,4 @@ cython_debug/
 keys
 htmlcov/
 tmp/
+static/

dashboard/settings.py

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     "django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
+    "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",
     "django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware",
     "oauth2_provider.middleware.OAuth2TokenMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware",
@@ -129,10 +130,12 @@ USE_TZ = True
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/howto/static-files/
 
 STATIC_URL = "static/"
+STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / "static"
+# STATICFILES_DIRS = [
+#    BASE_DIR / "static",
+# ]
 
-STATICFILES_DIRS = [
-    BASE_DIR / "static",
-]
+STATICFILES_STORAGE = "whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage"
 
 # Default primary key field type
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/settings/#default-auto-field

docs/INSTALL.md

@@ -9,6 +9,18 @@ configuration file to override [dashboard/settings.py](../dashboard/settings.py)
 Please copy local_settings.example.py to local_settings.py and make
 changes to the newly copied file.
 
+## Static files
+
+In order to serve static files, please run the following command before
+running the Dashbaord server:
+
+```bash
+yes yes | python manage.py collectstatic
+```
+
+This command will gather all static assets from all the modules in
+Dashbaord and place them in `static/` in the base directory.
+
 ## Cron jobs
 
 Run cron job at an interval of your choosing with the following comamnd:

requirements.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 asgiref==3.5.0
 astroid==2.9.3
 black==22.1.0
+Brotli==1.0.9
 certifi==2022.5.18.1
 cffi==1.15.0
 charset-normalizer==2.0.12
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ gitdb==4.0.9
 GitPython==3.1.27
 greenlet==1.1.2
 idna==3.3
+install==1.3.5
 isort==5.10.1
 jedi==0.18.1
 jwcrypto==1.3.1
@@ -45,4 +47,5 @@ tblib==1.7.0
 toml==0.10.2
 tomli==2.0.1
 urllib3==1.26.9
+whitenoise==6.2.0
 wrapt==1.13.3