What's the point of Django's collectstatic?

Question

This is probably a stupid question, but it\'s just not clicking in my head.

In Django, the convention is to put all of your static files (i.e css, js) specific to y

Answer 1

It's useful when there are multiple django apps within the site.

collectstatic will then collect static files from all the apps in one place - so that it could be served up in a production environment.