Django Channels Tutorial

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Want to use this project?

1. Fork/Clone

2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   $ python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
   

3. Install the requirements:

   (venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Apply the migrations:

   (venv)$ python manage.py migrate
   

5. Start a Redis server for backing storage:

   (venv)$ docker run -p 6379:6379 -d redis:5
   

6. Run the server:

   (venv)$ python manage.py runserver
   

7. By default, only authenticated users can chat. To create a test user:

   (venv)$ python manage.py createsuperuser
   

8. Log in using your newly created user at http://localhost:8000/admin/.

9. Navigate to http://localhost:8000/chat/.