kurt grandis

This branch adds 'whitenoise' ( http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/index.html ) to the project for managing static media. The primary reasoning is to ease deployment and containerization by allowing the static content to be...

This branch updates the project to explicitly define the STATIC_ROOT, which is project root level directory called 'staticfiles'. It also updates the templates to make use of the 'static' template...

A nice enhancement to include wildcard or glob-based exclusions like: --exclude-dir= _/migrations/_ or --exclude-dir=migrations/* First suggested by Vadim Lopatyuk