Django: static folder for template's assets

Question

I'm learning Django 2.0
I have a ready-made template, that contains all assets in assets folder.
All references in template starts from assets/..., and I'm gonna keep it: all links should looks like {% static 'assets/...' %}
My Django app has following structure:

myapp
├───manage.py
└───mysite
    └───static/mysite/static/assets # some mess here?
    └───templates/mysite/index.html

Inside index.html I'm using {% load static %},
In settings I have just

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

but framework can't find path to assets. What I'm doing wrong?

UPD

{% load static %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'assets/css/bootstrap.min.css' %}">

@Shift'NTab Request URL: http://localhost:8000/static/assets/css/bootstrap.min.css, 'assets/css/bootstrap.min.css' could not be found — shmnff, Apr 01 '18 at 15:31
Please provide more detail to your question, add the template and complete code of how you are linking those static files — Shift 'n Tab, Apr 01 '18 at 15:36
@Shift'NTab I guess that problem with `static` folder structure and settings. — shmnff, Apr 01 '18 at 15:46
Yeah, try to move your assets folder to the first level folder `static/` your structure should be looks like this `myapp/mysite/static/assets` — Shift 'n Tab, Apr 01 '18 at 15:51
@Shift'NTab this is correct, please make your comment as an answer — shmnff, Apr 01 '18 at 22:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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If you want to use static file like.

CSS

JavaScript

Images

On Templates Use

{℅ load staticfiles %}

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Apr 01 '18 at 16:38

Deepak Saini

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 18 '20 at 07:42

 └───static/mysite/static/assets  - You should to change this,**like bellow**

myapp
└───Assets
├───manage.py
└───mysite
    └───mysite # your project files
    └───templates/index.html

and also : in your setting.py like this :

    STATIC_URL = '/static/'
    STATICFILES_DIRS = [
        os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets'),
    ]

and also : you need to change setting.py file 'DIRS': ['templates'], or 'DIRS': ['myapp/templates']

Django: static folder for template's assets

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