What is the difference between {% load staticfiles %} and {% load static %}

Question

The most important part of the question is in the topic.

I am wondering what tag is best for which case. Moreover... I found code, that also use settings.STATI

Answer 1

Refer to the docs, where there is a nice explanation of it. Actually the {% static %} template tag know the location of STATICFILE_STORAGE

As docs say :

 {% load static from staticfiles %}  The previous example is equal to calling the url method of an instance of STATICFILES_STORAGE with "images/hi.jpg".

This is especially useful when using a non-local storage backend to deploy files as documented in Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN.

If you’d like to retrieve a static URL without displaying it, you can use a slightly different call:

{% load static from staticfiles %}
{% static "images/hi.jpg" as myphoto %}

Hope that helps!!