Is Django good for WebSocket?

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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Why does Django channels use Redis?

The primary purpose of redis in django-channel_layers is to store the necessary information required for different instances of consumers to communicate with one another . For example, in the tutorial section of channels documentation, it is clear that Redis is used as a storage layer for channel names and group names.

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What is Django channel?

Channels is a project that takes Django and extends its abilities beyond HTTP – to handle WebSockets, chat protocols, IoT protocols, and more . It’s built on a Python specification called ASGI. Channels builds upon the native ASGI support available in Django since v3.

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