Gosra

Gosra is a real-time chat application built using Django and Django Channels, with Redis as a message broker. It supports both private messaging and public chat rooms. The project was created to explore and learn about real-time communication in Django.

Prerequisites

1. Python
2. Django
3. Django-channels
4. Redis installed and running on your local machine on the port: 6379

After cloning the repo

Cd to the folder and install the dependencies

  cd Gosra
  pip install -r requirements.txt

If you don't want to use redis you can use in-Memory Channel Layer in development

Update settings.py and change channel layers conf

  # CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
  # "default": {
  #      "BACKEND": "channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer",
  #      "CONFIG": {
  #          "hosts": [("localhost", 6379)],
  #      },
  #  },
  #}
  # COMMENT THIS OUT IN settings.py and add the code below this 

  CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'channels.layers.InMemoryChannelLayer',
    },
}

Then run the server

  python manage.py runserver

it will run on http://127.0.0.1:8000/