/hotwire-django-demo-chat

Chat app demo of the Turbo web framework, rendered with Django.

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This demo now lives in hotwire-django/turbo-django! All updates will happen over there.

Django Hotwire Demo

This repository contains a demonstration of Hotwire, specifically the three components of Turbo to build a realtime chat app in Django with only server-side custom code. It makes use of Django Channels for websocket support.

To run this demo, after cloning the repository:

  1. pipenv install
  2. pipenv shell
  3. ./manage.py migrate
  4. ./manage.py createsuperuser
  5. ./manage.py runserver
  6. Log into localhost:8000/admin and create a Room
  7. Go to localhost:8000, select your room, and start chatting! Open as many windows as you'd like.