- Remove WhiteNoise from MIDDLEWARE in development: it intercepts /static/
requests and serves from STATIC_ROOT, which is empty without collectstatic.
Django's runserver serves static files natively with DEBUG=True.
- Switch to StaticFilesStorage in dev: no manifest required.
- Add media URL pattern in DEBUG mode: runserver does not serve MEDIA_ROOT
automatically, so uploaded images were 404ing in local dev.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
