Channels loads into Django as a pluggable app to bring WebSocket, long-poll HTTP, task offloading and other asynchrony support to your code, using familiar Django design patterns and a flexible underlying framework that lets you not only customize behaviours but also write support for your own protocols and needs.
Documentation, installation and getting started instructions are at https://channels.readthedocs.io
Channels is an official Django Project and as such has a deprecation policy. Details about what's deprecated or pending deprecation for each release is in the release notes.
Support can be obtained either here via issues, or in the #django-channels channel on Freenode.
You can install channels from PyPI as the channels package. You'll likely also want to install asgi_redis or asgi_rabbitmq to provide the Redis/RabbitMQ channel layer correspondingly. See our installation and getting started docs for more.
All Channels projects currently support Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5. channels supports all released Django versions, namely 1.8-1.10.
To learn more about contributing, please read our contributing docs.
To report security issues, please contact security@djangoproject.com. For GPG signatures and more security process information, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/security/.
To report bugs or request new features, please open a new GitHub issue. For larger discussions, please post to the django-developers mailing list.
Django Core Shepherd: Andrew Godwin <andrew@aeracode.org>
Maintenance team:
- Andrew Godwin <andrew@aeracode.org>
- Steven Davidson
- Jeremy Spencer
If you are interested in joining the maintenance team, please read more about contributing and get in touch!
The Channels project is made up of several packages; the others are:
- Daphne, the HTTP and Websocket termination server
- asgiref, the base ASGI library/memory backend
- asgi_redis, the Redis channel backend
- asgi_rabbitmq, the RabbitMQ channel backend
- asgi_ipc, the POSIX IPC channel backend