usamawizard / django-websockets-no-dep

Django 3.0 with ASGI + web-sockets implementation with no dep

django-websockets-no-dep

Django 3.0 with ASGI + web-sockets implementation with no dep

Trying it out

Prerequisite

You need to have installed in your system docker + docker-compose

Running the project

First build the images, this can take some time based on your Mbps

docker-compose build

Then start the containers

docker-compose up

Now you will be able to access to your localhost on port 8000

Testing it

Firts let's create a websocket connection, open your browser and in the console run

ws = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:8000/')

Then set a on message function

ws.onmessage = event => console.log(event.data)

Now from a http client (postman, curl, browser, etc) hit the endpoint GET http://localhost:8000/trigger_event/

You will get a json response {"status": "ok"}

Now take a look at the console, you should see a console log Event triggered