juanparker1 / messenger

Messenger REST API backend with django and django rest framework

messenger

Messenger REST API backend with django and django rest framework.

Database design idea: https://github.com/yoosuf/Messenger

Installation

1 - Clone project

2 - Install pipenv with this command py -m pip install pipenv

3 - Create virtual environment and install packages using py -m pipenv install in cloned directory

4 - Create messenger database in your mysql server

5 - Create .env file in cloned directory and copy & replace .env.example with right data into it.

6 - Run py -m pipenv shell to activate virtual environment

7 - Migrate database with py manage.py migrate command

8 - Create superuser using py manage.py createsuperuser command

9 - Start server with py manage.py runserver command

10- open http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/docs/ in your browser

KNOWN BUGS

messenger_consumer.py:

-first message for new privatechats won't send because the chat_id isn't still in groups list.