[Question] This or ServeStatic?

[mecampbellsoup]

I came across ServeStatic when searching through the WhiteNoise docs/issues/etc. on GitHub for ASGI/async keywords.

Like many/most of us, I'm using uvicorn and running Django as an ASGI app.

I'm fine with bypassing nginx/HAProxy for static file serving given that with something like WhiteNoise, all your Django app does is tell the webserver (uvicorn in my case) to sendfile which it should be pretty good at (not as optimized as NGINX, but not problematic whatsoever for my use case and scope of my app).

Is there a strong case to be made for either:

• https://github.com/matthiask/blacknoise
• https://github.com/Archmonger/ServeStatic

Would love to hear discussion for people like me trying to decide. I imagine both are probably quite suitable, but figured I'd ask the community :)

[Archmonger]

Blacknoise author's response: evansd/whitenoise#359 (comment)
Servestatic author's response: Archmonger/ServeStatic#83 (comment)

[matthiask]

Thanks @Archmonger

That's mostly what I would have said. One additional thing is that Blacknoise let's Starlette do the heavy lifting.

Also, ServeStatic has some support for development setups, Blacknoise has none at all and let's Django/other ASGI frameworks and/or the user do all the heavy lifting.

I was a happy user of Whitenoise, and if Whitenoise supported ASGI or if ServeStatic would already have existed at this time I wouldn't have started Blacknoise. That said, I like that it doesn't do much, uses Starlette under the hood, and is easy to maintain. https://406.ch/writing/weeknotes-2024-week-21/#blacknoise may be interesting.