Staticware

ASGI middleware for static file serving with content-based cache busting. Zero runtime dependencies.

• Created by Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld
  • GitHub: https://github.com/audreyfeldroy
  • PyPI: https://pypi.org/user/audreyr/
• PyPI package: https://pypi.org/project/staticware/
• Free software: MIT License

Features

• Serves static files over ASGI with content-hashed filenames for cache busting
• Hashed filenames get Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable
• Original filenames still work, without aggressive caching
• StaticRewriteMiddleware automatically rewrites static paths in HTML responses
• static.url() resolves cache-busted URLs for use in templates
• Works with any ASGI framework: Starlette, FastAPI, Air, Litestar, Django, or raw ASGI
• Zero runtime dependencies

Quick Start

from staticware import HashedStatic, StaticRewriteMiddleware

# Point at your static files directory
static = HashedStatic("static")

# Mount it however your framework mounts sub-apps:
app.mount("/static", static)

# Wrap any ASGI app to rewrite static paths in HTML responses
app = StaticRewriteMiddleware(app, static=static)

# In templates, resolve cache-busted URLs:
static.url("styles.css")       # /static/styles.a1b2c3d4.css
static.url("images/logo.png")  # /static/images/logo.7e4f9a01.png

Documentation

Documentation is built with Zensical and deployed to GitHub Pages.

• Live site: https://feldroy.github.io/staticware/
• Preview locally: just docs-serve (serves at http://localhost:8000)
• Build: just docs-build

API documentation is auto-generated from docstrings using mkdocstrings.

Docs deploy automatically on push to main via GitHub Actions. To enable this, go to your repo's Settings > Pages and set the source to GitHub Actions.

Development

To set up for local development:

git clone git@github.com:feldroy/staticware.git
cd staticware
uv sync

Run tests:

uv run pytest

Run quality checks (format, lint, type check, test):

just qa

Author

Staticware was created in 2026 by Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld.

Built with Cookiecutter and the audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.