hoseasandstrom / chatdjango

Stream Twitter clone

This is a simple twitter clone app built with Stream's API. It shows you how you can use GetStream.io to built a site similar to Twitter.

Tutorial

This application is based on the Build a scalable Twitter clone with Django and GetStream.io tutorial.

Live Demo

You can see a live demo of this application here.

Heroku

The best way to try this application is via Heroku; you can deploy this example (for free) on Heroku by pressing the Deploy button below.

If you prefer to run this locally then make sure to signup for GetStream's service and follow this steps:

Install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Add your API keys to settings.py

STREAM_API_KEY = 'my_api_key'
STREAM_API_SECRET = 'my_api_secret'

Setup your database and the demo data:

python manage.py after_deploy