Chat app using Django with DRF

• Python 3.10.0
• Django 4.0
• Django Rest Framework 5.2
• Postgres 10.x

License: MIT

This chat app is developed using Django. On the frontend side, it uses jquery to manage different actions.

1. Assuming you have python 3.10 installed, create a python 3.10 virtual environment

   virtualenv -p python venv
   source venv/bin/activate

2. Install python dependencies

   pip install -r requirements/local.txt

3. Install javascript dependencies

   npm install

4. Configure static files

   python manage.py collectstatic

5. Configure database

   create a postgresql database named chattin and then create a file named local_settings.py in the config/settings folder and add following lines:

       DATABASES = {
           'default': {
               'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
               'NAME': 'chattin',
               'USER': 'postgres',
               'PASSWORD': 'postgres',
               'HOST': 'localhost',
               'PORT': '5432',
           }
       }

   update the credentials based on your settings, then run:

   python manage.py migrate

6. Run Project

   npm run dev