Understanding this projects collectstatic

General

The collectstatic command collects all the static files e.g. css, javascript and images from each application and any static file directories in this project. These files are then put in the one location, to make it easier to serve them in a production environment.

Specific to this project

In settings.py

• The STATIC_URL defines the base URL where the static files will be served from. So in this project since the STATIC_URL = '/static/', static files are accessed via URLs like https://johnsite.ie/static/..