Static files directory does not exist on Heroku after deployment

[addianto]

Good day.

Thanks for preparing the project template. It is usable and I can deploy it to display a "Hello, World" page.

I encountered an issue when I checked the logs from the CI job and Heroku. I found out that there might
be a problem related to the static assets when the app was in deployment process at Heroku.

The relevant part of the CI job log from https://github.com/pbp-fasilkom-ui/django-pbp-template/runs/8170403745?check_suite_focus=true#step:6:50:

-----> $ python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
       System check identified some issues:
       WARNINGS:
       ?: (staticfiles.W004) The directory '/tmp/build_9f0fd430/static' in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting does not exist.
       130 static files copied to '/tmp/build_9f0fd430/staticfiles', 384 post-processed.

Sample log from Heroku after deployment:

System check identified some issues:

WARNINGS:

?: (staticfiles.W004) The directory '/app/static' in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting does not exist.

I believe Heroku always invoke collectstatic command whenever they build a Django Web project.
I think there might be an issue with the Django project configuration in settings.py. Could someone triage the issue?

Thanks in advance!

[addianto]

I think I found the cause. There is no static directory yet in the code template and base.html wants to import a CSS file in the header, which still does not exist.