damianstone/websockets-api

Group chat created with Django REST, Django Channels, websockets and Redis

Initialization

Create a virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv-location
source venv-location/bin/activate 

Install requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install Django Channels

python -m pip install -U channels
pip install channels-redis

Download Redis

https://redis.io/

Start redis server in your terminal

redis-server

Migrate models

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Run

python manage.py runserver

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