realtime-chat-application

A simple real time chat application in Django

Table of Contents

• A simple real time chat application in Django
  • Table of Contents
  • General Information
  • Technologies
  • Set Up
  • Usage
  • Going Further

General Information

A simple realtime Chat Application in Python using Django

Technologies

• Python
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS
• Django
• Ajax

Set Up

• Install Pip following this instruction
• Set up virtual environment following this instruction
• Clone this repository to your working directory
• Install dependencies from requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create a .env file in realchat folder, generate a random SECRET_KEY and copy paste into the .env file:

from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key
print(get_random_secret_key())

# within the .env file
SECRET_KEY = "{new secret key}"

Usage

• To run the server, activate the virtual environment, and running the following command:

# migrate
python manage.py migrate

# create admin and follow the instructions
python manage.py createsuperuser

# run server
python manage.py runserver

Going Further

• Have replaced the unsecured SECRET_KEY with a new one

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