candlechat

About The Project

This is a simple chat web app that includes group and one-to-one chat; I relate the terminologies with that of blockchain i call group chat as blocks, because a block in blockchain contains series of transaction so also we've series of chat in block in this web app -- EDFolmi.

Here's why:

• To have a practical understanding of websockets.
• Curious to know how chat apps works
• I love coding! 😄

I will add more features and AI technology to this project!

Built With

This section include list of major frameworks/libraries used to bootstrap this project.

• Django Framework
• Django Rest Framework
• Javascript Websocket
• Django channels
• Django-redis
• Redis Tool
• HTML
• CSS

Getting Started

This is an example of how you will set up this project locally. To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

You need to utilize redis tool as message broker, you can simply get redis tool in docker.

• Install docker desktop.
• run redis from the terminal.

• docker

  docker run --name some-redis -d redis

Installation

_Below is an example of how you can set up this app.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/edfolmi/candlechat.git

2. Install Django packages

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file in projects folder, Enter your SECRET KEY in .env

   SECRET_KEY=<ENTER YOUR API>;

4. Run Django project

   python manage.py runserver

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