If that’s the case, that’s fine; you can run Daphne and a WSGI server alongside each other , and only have Daphne serve the requests you need it to (usually WebSocket and long-poll HTTP requests, as these do not fit into the WSGI model).
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Channel layers allow you to talk between different instances of an application . They’re a useful part of making a distributed realtime application if you don’t want to have to shuttle all of your messages or events through a database.
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The channel backend, which is a combination of pluggable Python code and a datastore (e.g. Redis, or a shared memory segment) responsible for transporting messages . The workers, that listen on all relevant channels and run consumer code when a message is ready.
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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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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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Channels is comprised of six packages:
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