Added WhiteNoise to serve static files

Author: clintonb

Makefile

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ test:	## Ensure we can build and run a new project
 	cd todo_project_name && make validate_terraform
 
 test-static:	## Confirm nginx is serving static files
-	curl -o /dev/null --fail --silent http://localhost:8080/static/admin/css/login.css
+	curl -o /dev/null --fail --silent --compressed http://localhost:8080/static/admin/css/login.css
 
 down:	## Shutdown the containers
 	cd todo_project_name && make local.down

{{ cookiecutter.project_slug }}/Pipfile

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ django-model-utils = "~=3.1"
 gevent = "~=1.3"
 gunicorn = "~=19.9"
 psycopg2-binary = "~=2.7"
+whitenoise = {extras = ["brotli"],version = "~=4.1"}
 
 [dev-packages]
 coverage = "~=4.5"

{{ cookiecutter.project_slug }}/Pipfile.lock

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
@@ -131,6 +132,9 @@
     str(project_root.path('static')),
 ]
 
+STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
+
+
 SITE_ID = 1
 
 CACHES = {