Chat Server

Real Time chat application made with Django (Backend) and React (frontend). Django Channels for API with React and Websockets on the frontend. Redis to implement the publish subscribe pattern.

Requirements

API:

• python 3

• pip

• redis-server

Frontend:

• npm

Setup

Clone this repository.

• I am on arch thats why I'm using pacman , one can use any package manager.

Backend

$ sudo pacman -S python

$ sudo pacman -S redis

$ pip3 install virtualenv

$ cd backend

$ virtualenv venv

$ source venv/bin/activate

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

$ python manage.py migrate

$ python manage.py makemigrations

$ redis-server & python3 manage.py runserver

Frontend

$ sudo pacman -S npm

$ cd frontend

$ npm install

$ npm start

Future Additions

• Login feature using the User model

• Show online users