sparshdang / chatapp-react-django

A realtime chat app using django, react, redis and channels

🗨️🗣️💬Real Time Chat App🗨️🗣️💬

A real time chat app created using React and Django

Technologies Used

• ⚛️React Js : - We used React Js framework for creating the frontend of the web app as it has component-based architecture and also developer friendly.
• 🌐Django :- We use django for creating the backend server as it has inbuilt authentication system as well as have a great community support.

Features

• 💬Real time chatting :- In this web app I have used the channels and websockets for providing the real time functionality for chatting.
• 🛠️Custom Authentication :- We have also created our own authentication system for this web app. It allow us to authenticate us with our username as well as with our email.
• 🔐Security :- With the custom authentication, we have also keep the security as the concern and implement the hash based password storage.
• 🍪Cookies based authentication :- In this web app, authentication is done using JWT and we store the tokens in cookies, so that user does not have to login himself again and again.
• 🔄State Management :- We have use useContext hooks for better state management system.