This is a chat server app built using channels in django.

Token Authentication from Django Rest Framework(DRF) is used for all Rest APIs.

Currently only Token authentication is allowed for all websocket communications.

Installation

This is a standard Django project. Please refer to Django documentation for more details.

• Install requirements in the virtualenv

virtualenv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Postgres setup

create database dev_db;
create user chatuser with password 'password';
grant all privileges on database dev_db to chatuser;

• Run the inital migrations

python manage.py migrate

Run Server

./manage.py runserver

API

• Login : POST /accounts/login/

• Register: POST /accounts/register/

• Load Room Chat: GET /room/<room_name> (Requires Auth)

• Realtime updates demo: /room/render/<room_name> (Requires Auth)

• Allowed room_name: public, room1, room2

Resources

• https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels/
• https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/3/17/in_deep_with_django_channels_the_future_of_real_time_apps_in_django
• http://www.machinalis.com/blog/jwt-django-channels/
• https://github.com/jacobian/channels-example/