[Bug]: NGINX serves stale production assets in dev mode

[KevinMind]

What happened?

Here be dragons.. jk but this is tricky.

If you run make up in dev mode, and previously had a compressed production asset from a previous commit, the bundled asset will take precedence in nginx file serving and you can have a broken FE.

1. create a file test.txt in ./static add "foo" to the file
2. run make up DOCKER_TARGET=production
3. Expect that the file is copied to ./site-static
4. Change the contents of the file "banana"
5. Run make down && make up DOCKER_TARGET=development
6. request the file from http://olympia.test/static/test.txt
7. BUG: the file will have "foo"

What did you expect to happen?

The file should return "bar" in dev mode because we should not be serving/prioritizing production assets in dev as in dev we are not managing those files. They will not be updated or removed because this takes time and slows down make up.

So in order to prevent errors, we need to ensure that in dev mode nginx does not try to serve production assets.

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

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[KevinMind]

@diox FYI