Turn off caching of static files in Django development server

Question

Is there an easy way to turn off caching of static files in Django\'s development server?

I\'m starting the server with the standard command:

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Answer 1

Use whitenoise. There's a lot of issues with the static file serving in runserver and they're all already fixed in whitenoise. It's also WAY faster.

They've talked about just replacing the built-in static serving with it, but no one has gotten around to it yet.

Steps to use it in development...

Install with pip install whitenoise

Add the following to the end of settings.py:

if DEBUG:
    MIDDLEWARE = [
        'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
    ] + MIDDLEWARE
    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        'whitenoise.runserver_nostatic',
    ] + INSTALLED_APPS