Serve static assets from Firebase Hosting's CDN instead of proxying through Cloud Run - #187
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…hrough Cloud Run The last real Firebase Hosting deploy of public/ content was ~3.5 years ago -- since then, everything (including static assets) has gone through firebase.json's catch-all rewrite to Cloud Run. Since Firebase Hosting only falls back to that rewrite when no literal file matches under public/, populating public/media with Django's collectstatic output (matching STATIC_URL='media/') makes Firebase serve these files directly from its own CDN on the next `make firebase` deploy, cutting Cloud Run compute for that traffic without any firebase.json changes. Verified via the Firebase Hosting emulator: main.css and htmx.min.js serve with status 200 and byte-identical content from public/media, with no changes to firebase.json's rewrite rule. Excludes servestatic's own compressed sidecar files (.br/.gz/.zstd) from the copy -- those exist for servestatic's on-disk serving scheme, and Firebase Hosting compresses on the fly at its own CDN edge instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Hf6j2xXQXywHVh3HAVRxB3
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make firebasenow runscollectstaticfirst and mirrors the output intopublic/media(matchingSTATIC_URL='media/'), so Firebase Hosting serves these files directly from its own CDN on the next deploy instead of proxying every static-asset request through Cloud Run.firebase.jsonchanges needed -- Firebase Hosting only falls back to the catch-all Cloud Run rewrite when no literal file matches underpublic/, so a matching file there is served directly. Confirmed this empirically via the Firebase Hosting emulator (see test plan).public/mediais gitignored (build output, regenerated by the Makefile target) and servestatic's own compressed sidecar files (.br/.gz/.zstd) are stripped from the copy, since Firebase compresses on the fly at its CDN edge and never looks for them.servestaticitself stays in the app -- it's still needed for local dev (no Firebase Hosting in front ofdocker compose) and theorthocal-devCloud Run service (not covered byfirebase.json's rewrite, which is hardcoded to theorthocalservice), plus it's a reasonable fallback if amake firebasedeploy is ever forgotten.Test plan
make collectstaticruns cleanly and produces 79 files inpublic/media, with zero leftover.br/.gz/.zstdsidecar files.firebase emulators:start --only hosting) servesmain.cssandhtmx.min.jsfrompublic/mediawith status 200 and content byte-identical to the source files, with nofirebase.jsonchanges.make firebasefor a real deploy (manual, left to Brian).Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 noreply@anthropic.com
https://claude.ai/code/session_01Hf6j2xXQXywHVh3HAVRxB3