Adding whitenoise so serving static files becomes less painful

Dockerfile

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 FROM python:3.6 as python
 COPY backend/requirements.txt .
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
-RUN curl https://gitlab.gwdg.de/snippets/51/raw --output words
+RUN curl -s https://gitlab.gwdg.de/snippets/51/raw --output words
 
 FROM node:carbon as node
 

backend/core/permissions.py

@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ class IsUserGenericPermission(permissions.BasePermission):
     def has_permission(self, request: HttpRequest, view: View) -> bool:
         """ required by BasePermission. Check if user is instance of any
         of the models provided in class' models attribute """
-        log.warn("Checking permission of request %s on view %s for user %s",
-                 request, view, request.user)
-
         assert self.models is not None, (
             "'%s' has to include a `models` attribute"
             % self.__class__.__name__
@@ -29,7 +26,7 @@ class IsUserGenericPermission(permissions.BasePermission):
             user.get_associated_user(), models) for models in self.models)
 
         if not is_authorized:
-            log.warn('User %s has no permission to view %s',
+            log.warn('User "%s" has no permission to view %s',
                      user.username, view.__class__.__name__)
 
         return is_authorized

backend/grady/settings/default.py

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
+    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
 ]
 
 ROOT_URLCONF = 'grady.urls'
@@ -106,13 +107,14 @@ USE_TZ = True
 
 # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/static-files/
-STATICFILES_DIRS = (
-    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'node_modules'),
-)
 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
-STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')
+STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
+STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
 
-FIXTURE_DIRS = ['/core/fixtures/']
+STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
+)
 
 GRAPH_MODELS = {
     'all_applications': True,
@@ -131,10 +133,6 @@ MESSAGE_TAGS = {
     messages.ERROR: 'alert-danger',
 }
 
-STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
-    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
-    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
-)
 
 AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'core.UserAccount'
 AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = []
@@ -163,13 +161,9 @@ LOGGING = {
     "version": 1,
     "disable_existing_loggers": False,
     "formatters": {
-        'django.server': {
-            'datefmt': '%d/%b/%Y %H:%M:%S',
-            'format': '[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)-10s %(name)-20s %(message)s',
-        },
         'core': {
-            'datefmt': '%d/%b/%Y %H:%M:%S',
-            'format': '[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)-10s %(name)-20s "%(message)s"',
+            'datefmt': '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
+            'format': '[%(asctime)s] [%(levelname)s] %(name)-20s %(message)s',
         },
     },
     'filters': {

backend/requirements.txt

@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ xlrd~=1.0.0
 pytest-cov~=2.5.1
 pytest-django~=3.1.2
 prospector~=0.12.7
+whitenoise~=3.3.1

docker-compose.yml

 version: '3'
 
 services:
+
   postgres:
     image: postgres:9.5
-  web:
-    build: .
+    restart: always
+
+  grady:
+    image: docker.gitlab.gwdg.de/j.michal/grady:master
     command:
       - /bin/sh
       - -c
       - |
+        sleep 5
+        python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
         python manage.py migrate --noinput
-        gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 grady.wsgi:application &
-        cd static/ && python -m http.server 8080
-    ports:
-      - "8000:8000"
-      - "8080:8080"
+        gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 grady.wsgi:application
     depends_on:
       - postgres
+    restart: always
+    networks:
+      - default
+    expose:
+      - "8000"