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Personal Chat Application using Django Channels

Django Channels is a project that extends Django to handle real-time WebSockets, allowing you to build chat applications and other real-time features in your Django application. In this article, we will build a personal chat application using Django Channels and demonstrate how to show users’ online/offline status using websockets.

Setting up Django Channels

To use Django Channels, you will first need to install the package using pip:

pip install channels

Once installed, you can configure Django Channels in your Django settings and routing files.

Building the Personal Chat Application

With Django Channels set up, we can start building our personal chat application. We will create a simple chat room where users can send and receive messages in real-time using websockets.

Adding Users’ Online/Offline Status

One useful feature for a chat application is to show the online/offline status of users. We can achieve this using Django Channels by keeping track of the connected clients and updating their status in the frontend.

Conclusion

With Django Channels and websockets, we have built a personal chat application that allows users to send and receive messages in real-time. We have also demonstrated how to show users’ online/offline status using websockets. This opens up a wide range of possibilities for building real-time features in Django applications.

Tags

#django #websockets #chatapplication