/django-push-demo

A demo project showcasing ServerSentEvents and WebSocket

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

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Installation

  1. Create a virtualenv and download the project.

  2. Install the requirements:

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the project

$ gunicorn_django -c config/gunicorn
  1. Open your browser at http://localhost:8000/.
  2. Open the javascript console.
  3. Open a python interpreter (within your virtualenv).

To send a Server-Sent Event:

>>> from django_sse.redisqueue import send_event
>>> send_event('myevent', 'text')

To send a SocketIO packet from the server to the browser:

>>> from myapp.utils import emit_to_channel
>>> emit_to_channel('default_room', 'myevent', 'text')

To send a SocketIO packet from the browser to the server:

> socket.emit('myevent', 'default_room', 'text')

License

Released under the MIT License.