dopeboy/justchat

A chat application built with Django channels.

Django Channels Tutorial Series

This tutorial is for how to build a chat application with Django Channels. The tutorial series can be watched here

To run the frontend, run:

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
cd src
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py runserver

To run the backend:

cd frontend
npm i
npm start

To build for deployment:

npm run build

Please note this is a demo project of the concepts used in building a chat app. It is simply not production ready. The project is setup for deployment on Heroku however you'll need to follow tutorials on how to get this up and running