fix: avoid cached static hash urls

.env.example

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 SECRET_KEY=replace-me
 DEBUG=false
 LOG_LEVEL=info
+WHITENOISE_USE_MANIFEST=false
 WHITENOISE_MANIFEST_STRICT=false
 ALLOWED_HOSTS=example.com,www.example.com
 CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS=https://example.com,https://www.example.com

santehray/settings.py

@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ STATICFILES_DIRS = [
 STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
 
 # Whitenoise storage for compressed static files
+WHITENOISE_USE_MANIFEST = env_bool("WHITENOISE_USE_MANIFEST", False)
 STORAGES = {
     'default': {
         'BACKEND': 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage',
@@ -273,12 +274,17 @@ STORAGES = {
         'BACKEND': (
             'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage'
             if DEBUG else
-            'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
+            (
+                'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
+                if WHITENOISE_USE_MANIFEST else
+                'whitenoise.storage.CompressedStaticFilesStorage'
+            )
         ),
     },
 }
 
 # Keep the app serving even if a deployment has a stale or incomplete manifest.
+# This only matters when WHITENOISE_USE_MANIFEST=true.
 WHITENOISE_MANIFEST_STRICT = env_bool("WHITENOISE_MANIFEST_STRICT", False)
 
 # Default primary key field type