A simple chat application, with chat rooms.
Mainly used react for the frontend and django, and django channels for the backend.
Thanks to the open source libraries and websites like: framer-motion, tailwindcss, animista, djangochannelsrestframework (although I haven't used this in the final app) etc...
To install dependencies, use:
pip install -r requirements.txtor just:pip install Django channels daphne python-decouple
Create a .env file and put a SECRET_KEY there, or decleare a SECRET_KEY environment variable.
To create a secret key:
python -c 'from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())'
use command
daphne chitchat_server_project.asgi:applicationto start the server in production mode. Also make debug=False in production (usedaphne -p $PORT ...if you are using a custom port environment variable).