What is a Django channel?

Django Channels. Channels is a project to make Django able to handle more than just plain HTTP requests, including WebSockets and HTTP2, as well as the ability to run code after a response has been sent for things like thumbnailing or background calculation.

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What are Django channels used for?

Django Channels facilitates support of WebSockets in Django in a manner similar to traditional HTTP views . It wraps Django’s native asynchronous view support, allowing Django projects to handle not only HTTP, but also protocols that require long-running connections, such as WebSockets, MQTT, chatbots, etc.1 Mar 2021

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Is Django good for real time applications?

Django is a good solution for a vast majority of web applications today . But the expectations are rapidly changing to show real-time updates. Realtime web applications need a lot of design changes in existing web frameworks like Django. The existing solutions require a lot of components and sometimes repetitive code.

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What is Websocket in Django?

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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How 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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