Is Nginx ASGI?

The recommended ASGI server seems to be Daphne[0]. Nginx doesn’t need to speak ASGI natively (as it doesn’t speak WSGI natively), more likely Daphne would replace the WSGI server (gunicorn, etc) running behind nginx.

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Does Django need WSGI?

Django’s primary deployment platform is WSGI , the Python standard for web servers and applications. Django’s startproject management command sets up a minimal default WSGI configuration for you, which you can tweak as needed for your project, and direct any WSGI-compliant application server to use.

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Can Daphne run WSGI?

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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