django-chant is a chat via pure websockets and tornado.
At this moment it's not a standalone chat application, but it can easily be extracted from project root: use chant folder in your project.
DEMO: http://django-chant.force.fm/ (openid auth only)
Features
- rooms
- typing notification
- rate limits
- blacklist
- optional notification (user may cancel chat updates)
- max connections limit
- authentication (via django session)
- gravatar icons
- markdown support
- sound notification (html5 audio)
- favicon notification
Requirements
- django
- tornado
- bootstrap3
- jquery
- jquery mustache
- moment.js
- jquery favico
- jquery-slimscroll
- bootstrap
- html5
Configuration
RATE_LIMIT:
CHANT_RATE_LIMITS = {
'on_message': UNLIMITED,
'authenticate': UNLIMITED,
'post': UNLIMITED,
'typing': UNLIMITED,
'history': UNLIMITED,
'rooms': UNLIMITED
}
where UNLIMITED is a dict like:
UNLIMITED = {
'max_rate': 1,
'time_unit': 2
}
MAX_CONNECTIONS:
CHANT_MAX_CONNECTIONS = 1024
Starting chat daemon
Run:
./manage.py startchant 8877
Sample supervisord config (i.e., /etc/supervisor/conf.d/django-chant.conf):
[program:django-chant] process_name=%(program_name)s directory=/var/www/django-chant.project/venv/chant_project command=/var/www/django-chant.project/venv/bin/python /var/www/django-chant.project/venv/chant_project/manage.py startchant 8877 autostart=true autorestart=true redirect_stderr=false stdout_logfile=/var/log/chant.log stdout_logfile_maxbytes=1MB stdout_logfile_backups=10 stdout_capture_maxbytes=1MB stderr_logfile=/var/log/cat_err.log stderr_logfile_maxbytes=1MB stderr_logfile_backups=10 stderr_capture_maxbytes=1MBr
TODO
- add manage commands for chat, i.e. ./manage.py chant online