Switch local API dev server to use gunicorn --reload instead of Django's runserver

[sarayourfriend]

Problem

Stems from #2566

runserver does not support critical features we will need after converting the app to ASGI:

1. Actually running the ASGI app in full asynchrony
2. Multiple workers (to test production configuration)

We're also making the configuration slightly more complex by moving to ASGI, relying on gunicorn and uvicorn workers.

Description

To anticipate these complexities and make the local development environment (a) behave more like production and (b) require fewer changes when switching to full ASGI, swap out manage.py runserver for gunicorn --reload. Once we switch to ASGI in #2790, we'll either continue using gunicorn for development (with multiple workers) or can switch to uvicorn --reload.

runserver handles static file serving locally, while gunicorn and uvicorn won't know what to do. In production we rely on nginx to handle this. We could set up Nginx locally to front the API service, but to keep this simple, it's easier to conditionally add the static route handler that runserver uses to the API's urls configuration. See these changes as an example (which require supporting changes for the ENVIRONMENT variable and changes to the static file configuration generally, all present in that commit).

Additional context

Something along these lines will be necessary for ASGI conversion anyway. Doing this as a separate issue again reduces

[ashiramin]

@sarayourfriend I'd like to take a look at this. How high of a priority is it? I don't want be a blocker

[sarayourfriend]

This won't necessarily block anything for another two weeks or so. If that works for you, let me know and I'll assign it to you 🙂

[ashiramin]

I just saw this :( I'll start on it soon. Please don't assign me the ticket. I'll take a stab at it and see if I can make progress by early next week. I don't want to block anyone else from picking this up. I'll report back here by Monday next week

[sarayourfriend]

No worries, sounds good, and thanks!