Creating our first page with Daphne

Let’s begin by activating all the real-time capabilities that Channels has to offer. So, we are going to enable Channels in the configuration, change the WSGI server for ASGI, and build a minimal HTML page to check that everything is running correctly. We will continue the application we started in Chapter 2, Creating a Django Project around Docker. If you don’t have the code, you can use the example available in the following repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-SPAs-with-Django-and-HTML-Over-the-Wire/tree/main/chapter-2.

Let’s begin:

1. The first thing we are going to do is to activate Channels. To do this, we open hello_world/settings.py, and under INSTALLED_APPS, we add app.simple_app (put it at the end) and channels (put it first):

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ' channels', # New line
       'django.contrib.admin',
       'django...