Collectstatic only for certain apps

Question

I manage all my static files with Grunt in my Django project. I have setup a gruntfile for my project that gets all js and css files and then concats and minifies them into one file. Those files are copied to a directory named /static/source and in my settings I have configured static files like this:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static/build'),
)

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PUBLIC_ROOT, 'static')

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
)

All this works fine and I don't have any problem with this. The problem is when I try to use the admin app for example. If I add to STATICFILES_FINDERS the django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder, when I do the collectatic process, it also copies all static files from my apps (the source files which I have concatenated and minified with Grunt).

Is there any way to collect the static files only for a certain app?

Answer 1

You can use the i flag of collectstatic command to ignore staticfiles from apps.

E.g: python manage.py collectstatic -i app -i an_other_app

If you use grunt, you can use grunt-exec plugin to run this command automatically.