Merge pull request 'fix: make docker compose up work out of the box' (#13) from fix/dev-setup into main

Reviewed-on: #13

config/settings/development.py

@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ DEBUG = True
 
 INTERNAL_IPS = ["127.0.0.1"]
 
-# Use plain static file storage in dev — CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage
-# (set in base.py) requires collectstatic to have been run and will 404 on
-# every asset otherwise.
+# Drop WhiteNoise in dev — it serves from STATIC_ROOT which is empty without
+# collectstatic, so it 404s every asset. Django's runserver serves static and
+# media files natively when DEBUG=True (via django.contrib.staticfiles + the
+# media URL pattern in urls.py).
+MIDDLEWARE = [m for m in MIDDLEWARE if m != "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware"]
 STATICFILES_STORAGE = "django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage"
 
 try:

config/urls.py

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.conf.urls.static import static
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.urls import include, path
 from django.views.generic import RedirectView
@@ -21,3 +23,6 @@ urlpatterns = [
     path("admin/", RedirectView.as_view(url="/cms/", permanent=False)),
     path("", include(wagtail_urls)),
 ]
+
+if settings.DEBUG:
+    urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)