Allow Nginx to serve Video Vue static assets (opt-in)

app/eventyay/config/next_settings.py

@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ class BaseSettings(_BaseSettings):
     linkedin_client_secret: str = ''
     # Ask to provide comments when making changes in the admin interface.
     admin_audit_comments_asked: bool = False
+    # Video Vue app: Allow Nginx to serve static assets (opt-in, default: False)
+    nginx_serve_static: bool = False
 
     @classmethod
     def settings_customise_sources(
@@ -242,6 +244,9 @@ def increase_redis_db(url: str, increment: int) -> str:
 SECRET_KEY = conf.secret_key
 DATABASE_REPLICA = 'default'
 
+# Video Vue app: Allow Nginx to serve static assets (opt-in, default: False)
+VIDEO_STATIC_NGINX_SERVE = conf.nginx_serve_static
+
 DATA_DIR = BASE_DIR / 'data'
 LOG_DIR = DATA_DIR / 'logs'
 MEDIA_ROOT = DATA_DIR / 'media'

app/eventyay/config/settings.py

@@ -1042,6 +1042,12 @@ def instance_name(request):
 ]
 
 STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'static.dist'
+
+# Video Vue app: Allow Nginx to serve static assets (opt-in, default: False)
+VIDEO_STATIC_NGINX_SERVE = config.getboolean(
+    'video', 'nginx_serve_static', fallback=False
+)
+
 STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
     'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
     'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',

app/eventyay/multidomain/views.py

@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
 WEBAPP_DIST_DIR = cast(Path, settings.STATIC_ROOT) / 'webapp'
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+# File extensions expected to be served by Nginx when VIDEO_STATIC_NGINX_SERVE is enabled
+VIDEO_STATIC_NGINX_EXTENSIONS = {'.js', '.css', '.map'}
+
 
 def safe_reverse(name: str, **kw) -> str:
     try:
@@ -129,6 +132,11 @@ def default(self, obj):
 
 class VideoAssetView(View):
     def get(self, request, path='', *args, **kwargs):
+        # When VIDEO_STATIC_NGINX_SERVE is enabled, skip serving static assets
+        if settings.VIDEO_STATIC_NGINX_SERVE and path:
+            _, ext = os.path.splitext(path.lower())
+            if ext in VIDEO_STATIC_NGINX_EXTENSIONS:
+                raise Http404()
         # Accept empty path -> index handling done by SPA view
         candidate_paths = (
             [

deployment/nginx/enext-direct

@@ -37,6 +37,27 @@ server {
 		access_log off;
 		expires 30d;
 	}
+
+	# Video Vue app static assets (optional Nginx serving)
+	# Uncomment this block to serve Video Vue static assets directly from Nginx.
+	# This requires setting nginx_serve_static = true in the [video] section of eventyay.cfg
+	# or nginx_serve_static: true in eventyay.*.toml configuration files.
+	# When enabled, Django will return 404 for these assets, allowing Nginx to serve them.
+	#
+	# location ~ ^/[^/]+/[^/]+/video/assets/ {
+	#     alias <PATH_TO>/data/compiled-frontend/;
+	#     access_log off;
+	#     expires 30d;
+	#     add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";
+	# }
+	#
+	# location ~ ^/[^/]+/[^/]+/video/.*\.(js|css|map)$ {
+	#     alias <PATH_TO>/data/compiled-frontend/;
+	#     access_log off;
+	#     expires 30d;
+	#     add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";
+	# }
+
         listen 80;
 }