Proper way to handle static files and templates for Django on Heroku

Question

I\'m moving over my django app to Heroku, and I was wondering what the proper way to handle static files is. Do I just push them via git to Heroku? Or should I be storing th

Answer 1

While @Intenex's answer might still be the way to go if you have a lot of static content, for getting started, Heroku suggests using Whitenoise.

Here's Heroku's article aptly entitled "Django and Static Assets".

And the whitenoise documentation itself has a nice section on "Shouldn’t I be pushing my static files to S3 using something like Django-Storages?"