What are Phoenix channels?

Channels are a really exciting and powerful part of Phoenix that allow us to easily add soft-realtime features to our applications. Channels are based on a simple idea – sending and receiving messages . Senders broadcast messages about topics. Receivers subscribe to topics so that they can get those messages.

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Does Django channels use Redis?

channels_redis is the only official Django-maintained channel layer supported for production use. The layer uses Redis as its backing store , and supports both a single-server and sharded configurations, as well as group support. To use this layer you’ll need to install the channels_redis package.

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What are WebSocket channels?

A WebSocket is a persistent bi-directional communication channel between a client (e.g. a browser) and a backend service . In contrast with HTTP request/response connections, websockets can transport any number of protocols and provide server-to-client message delivery without polling.

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How does Django WebSockets work?

With WebSockets (via Django Channels) managing the communication between the client and the server, whenever a user is authenticated, an event will be broadcasted to every other connected user . Each user’s screen will change automatically, without them having to reload their browsers.

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