Django emits a warning when running tests if STATIC_ROOT doesn't exist. That directory is normally only created after running collectstatic. This would be a serious error in prod, but isn't a big deal in dev.
Regardless, it's easy to silence the warning by creating an empty directory.
Django emits a warning when running tests if
STATIC_ROOTdoesn't exist. That directory is normally only created after runningcollectstatic. This would be a serious error in prod, but isn't a big deal in dev.Regardless, it's easy to silence the warning by creating an empty directory.