From ddf28fea792a258f41d0fce87144af55fc7c3bcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Flatlogic Bot <support@flatlogic.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 07:12:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Add WhiteNoise for optimized static file serving

---
 config/settings.py | 5 +++++
 requirements.txt   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/settings.py b/config/settings.py
index 32d14eb..b46bf76 100644
--- a/config/settings.py
+++ b/config/settings.py
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",  # Add WhiteNoise Middleware
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
@@ -181,6 +182,10 @@ STATICFILES_DIRS = [
     BASE_DIR / 'node_modules',
 ]
 
+# Enable WhiteNoise's Gzip compression of static assets.
+STATICFILES_STORAGE = "whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage"
+
+
 # Media files
 MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
 MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'media'
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 206132a..9c927b1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ drf-yasg
 gunicorn==22.0.0
 django-cors-headers
 django-admin-rangefilter
-requests
\ No newline at end of file
+requestswhitenoise