Rapid-ChatXChannels

A rapid fire tutorial and introduction of Django Channels. To get more in-depth check out the full course https://kirr.co/badl8e

YouTube Video: coming soon

Recommended Start

$ cd path/to/your/dev/folder
$ mkdir channels-rapid
$ cd channels-rapid
$ git clone https://github.com/codingforentrepreneurs/Rapid-ChatXChannels .
$ git reset a9a2c42052c87fd2eb5acdc417729f9359a1e087 --hard
$ git remote remove origin
$ virtualenv -p python3 .
$ source bin/activate
(channels-rapid) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
(channels-rapid) $ cd src
(channels-rapid) $ python manage.py migrate
(channels-rapid) $ python manage.py createsuperuser
... do the creation
(channels-rapid) $ python manage.py createsuperuser
... create second super user

Install Redis

Download Redis
- Using Homebrew:
```
brew install redis

brew services start redis
```
  Brew permission errors? Try sudo chown -R "$USER":admin /usr/local
- Direct Download

Open & Test Redis:

open Terminal
redis-cli ping
```
$ redis-cli ping
PONG
```

redis-server

$ redis-server
86750:C 08 Nov 08:17:21.431 # Warning: no config file specified, using the default config. In order to specify a config file use redis-server /path/to/redis.conf
86750:M 08 Nov 08:17:21.433 * Increased maximum number of open files to 10032 (it was originally set to 256).
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86750:M 08 Nov 08:17:21.434 # Server started, Redis version 3.2.5
86750:M 08 Nov 08:17:21.434 * The server is now ready to accept connections on port 6379

Close Redis with control + c to quit