Django Collectstatic Command

The collectstatic command in Django is used to gather all static files from your applications and any other locations specified in your settings into a single directory, typically for deployment purposes.

The goal is to collect all static files into a single directory, which can then be served by a web server in production.

In my case we use MinIO to serve static files, so we put the urls of this minio bucket in the STATIC_URL setting.

Basic Usage

python -m manage collectstatic

Don't forget to ignore the staticfiles directory in your .gitignore

echo "staticfiles/" >> .gitignore

Settings

settings.py should include the following configurations:

STATIC_URL = 'https://<minion_server>:9000/django-staticfiles/'
STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'

Additional Options to update the static files

You can pass additional options to the collectstatic command:

python -m manage collectstatic --noinput --clear

This command will run without prompting for input and will clear the existing static files in the STATIC_ROOT directory before collecting new ones.