Chat-IO

An efficient multi-user Chat WebApp built with Django, Web Sockets, and Channels 2.

Normal Setup

- Basic System Prerequisites:

Python >= 3.6
virtualenv >= 16.0.0

- Redis Server Setup:

• For Ubuntu follow this link.
• For Mac OS follow this link.
• Redis does not support Windows officially.

- Fork this repo and run these commands after cloning the project and go inside the directory:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py runserver

Optional Docker Setup

# This builds the Docker image.
docker build -t "pujanm/chat_app" .

# This will start the container.
docker run -itd --name chat_app_cont -p 8000:8000  pujanm/chat_app

# To stop and remove the container
docker stop chat_app_cont && docker rm chat_app_cont

You can access the WebApp at http://localhost:8000

TODOs:

• Group Chat
• Finding which user is currently typing
• User Online / Offline
• Finding out count of messages unread in a chat