reworded docker compose files to segregate responsibilites. Dev version no longer uses the nginx proxy to proxy, merely to be the static file server. Also dev version no longer used gunicorn as it was screwing up the live reload functionality and didn't provide any other benefit.

.docker-compose-files/compose.dev.yaml

@@ -1,18 +1,36 @@
+---
 services:
   web:
-    command: gunicorn --capture-output --enable-stdio-inheritance -b 0.0.0.0:8000 website.wsgi:application
+    command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
-    volumes:
+    volumes: [./src:/src]
-      - ./src:/src
     env_file:
       - path: .env.template
         required: true
       - path: .env
         required: false
-
+    environment:
+      DJANGO_RELOAD: true
+      DEBUG: true
+      ALLOWED_HOSTS: localhost,127.0.0.1
+    ports: [127.0.0.1:8000:8000]
   db:
     env_file:
       - path: .env.template
         required: true
       - path: .env
         required: false
-
+  proxy:
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    ports: [127.0.0.1:80:80]
+    environment: [NGINX_HOSTNAME=localhost, NGINX_PORT=80]
+  tailwind:
+    image: python:3.14-slim
+    working_dir: /src
+    command: >
+      sh -c "apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl &&
+             curl -sL https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/latest/download/tailwindcss-linux-x64
+             -o /usr/local/bin/tailwindcss &&
+            chmod +x /usr/local/bin/tailwindcss &&
+             tailwindcss -i ./static/css/input.css -o ./static/css/output.css --watch"
+    volumes: [.:/src]
+    networks: [frontend]

.docker-compose-files/compose.prod.yaml

@@ -1,10 +1,25 @@
+---
 services:
   web:
+    command: gunicorn website.wsgi:application
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      ALLOWED_HOSTS: ${NGINX_HOSTNAME}
+      DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: ${DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE}
     env_file:
       - path: .env
         required: true
-
   db:
+    restart: unless-stopped
     env_file:
       - path: .env
         required: true
+  adminer:
+    restart: unless-stopped
+  proxy:
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    ports: [80:80, 443:443]
+    environment:
+      - NGINX_HOSTNAME=${NGINX_HOSTNAME}
+      - NGINX_PORT=80
+      - NGINX_SSL_PORT=443

.docker-compose-files/compose.test.yaml

@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
+---
 services:
   web:
-    command: python manage.py check --deploy; python -Wa manage.py test --noinput --parallel
+    command: python manage.py check --deploy; python -Wa manage.py test --noinput
-    restart: "no"
+      --parallel
+    environment:
+      DEBUG: false
+      DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: website.settings.test
     env_file:
       - path: .env.template
         required: true
-
-
   db:
+    # Tmpfs keeps tests fast and isolated — no persistent volume needed
+    tmpfs: [/var/lib/postgresql/data]
     env_file:
       - path: .env.template
         required: true
-

compose.yaml

@@ -2,16 +2,9 @@
 services:
   web:
     build: .
-    command: gunicorn website.wsgi:application
     depends_on:
       db:
         condition: service_healthy
-    environment:
-      ALLOWED_HOSTS: ${NGINX_HOSTNAME}
-      DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: ${DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE}
-      # VIRTUAL_HOST: localhost
-      # VIRTUAL_PORT: 8000
-    restart: unless-stopped
     volumes: [static_volume:/app/static, media_volume:/app/media]
     networks: [frontend, backend]
   db:
@@ -21,32 +14,24 @@ services:
       POSTGRES_USER: ${POSTGRES_USER}
       POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
     volumes: [postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql]
-    restart: unless-stopped
     healthcheck:
       test: [CMD-SHELL, 'pg_isready -U ${POSTGRES_USER} -d ${POSTGRES_DBNAME}']
       interval: 5s
       retries: 5
     networks: [backend]
-  adminer:
-    image: adminer
-    depends_on: [db]
-    restart: always
-    ports: [127.0.0.1:8080:8080]
-    networks: [backend]
   proxy:
     image: nginx:stable
     volumes:
       - ./.nginx/.templates:/etc/nginx/templates
       - static_volume:/app/static:ro
       - media_volume:/app/media:ro
-    restart: unless-stopped
-    ports: [80:80, 443:443]
-    environment:
-      - NGINX_HOSTNAME=${NGINX_HOSTNAME}
-      - NGINX_PORT=80
-      - NGINX_SSL_PORT=443
     depends_on: [web]
     networks: [frontend]
+  adminer:
+    image: adminer
+    depends_on: [db]
+    ports: [127.0.0.1:8080:8080]
+    networks: [backend]
 networks:
   frontend:
   backend: