Chat application for Django using websockets

pip install django-rechat

Add "rechat" and "instant" to INSTALLED_APPS in settings and update urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    # ...
    path("instant/", include("instant.urls")),
    path("rechat/", include("rechat.urls")),
]

Install the websockets server: quickstart

Create chat rooms in the admin

An Alpinejs frontend is available. To use the rechat templates create your own index template (here with Tailwind css classes):

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block content %}
{% include "rechat/init.html" %}
<div class="flex flex-row h-full" x-init="$rechat.hxget('{% url 'rechat-rooms' %}', '#rooms')">
  <div id="rooms" class="w-2/12 h-full p-3 border-r border-gray-200 bg-slate-100">
    Loading rooms ..
  </div>
  <div id="room">
    <div class="p-5 text-stone-400">Select a chatroom</div>
  </div>
</div>
{% endblock %}

A runnable example project is available

• Add a persistence layer option
• Group level authorizations and rooms
• Rate limits
• Channel admin, kick/ban
• Add a presence widget to show users in the chat