What is a Django channel?

Routing in Channels is done using a system similar to that in core Django; a list of possible routes is provided, and Channels goes through all routes until a match is found, and then runs the resulting consumer.

Consumers receive the connection’s scope when they are called, which contains a lot of the information you’d find on the request object in a Django view . It’s available as self. scope inside the consumer’s methods.

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.