This post was adapted from my Stack Overflow answer to a question about using single page applications (SPAs) with Django on Heroku.
Update: check out my django-spa package for a ready-to-use solution for serving SPAs from Django.
Here’s how to set up Django to serve your static files and index.html on / while still having the possibility to use Django views for the admin dashboard, registration etc.:
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.staticfiles.views import serve
from django.views.generic import RedirectView
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = [
# / routes to index.html
url(r'^$', serve,
kwargs={'path': 'index.html'}),
# static files (*.css, *.js, *.jpg etc.) served on /
# (assuming Django uses /static/ and /media/ for static/media urls)
url(r'^(?!/?static/)(?!/?media/)(?P<path>.*\..*)$',
RedirectView.as_view(url='/static/%(path)s', permanent=False)),
# other views still work too
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]
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