Simple Chatapp

Simple chatapp using django, django-channels and websocket

Features

• Login / Signup
• Chat with other users in the same room

ScreenShots

Installation

• Clone the Repository
• Create a Virtual environment

  virtualenv venv
  source venv/bin/activate

• Go to the project directory

    cd chatrealtime

• Inside the project folder
• Run the following command in the terminal

    pip install -r requirements.txt

• Open the settings file and change DEBUG to True

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

SECRET_KEY

EMAIL_HOST_USER

EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD

Run Locally

Run the following Command

    python manage.py makemigrations
    python manage.py migrate

Then start the server with

    python manage.py runserver

or

    daphne chatrealtime.asgi:application

• It will run the application on your localhost
• Open the browser with the localhost address and enjoy the application