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Antonio Melé
Antonio Melé
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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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Functional overview

Figure 16.1 shows a representation of the views, templates, and functionalities that will be built in this chapter:

Figure 16.1: Diagram of functionalities built in this chapter

In this chapter, you will implement the course_chat_room view in the chat application. This view will serve the template that displays the chat room for a given course. The latest chat messages will be displayed when a user joins a chat room. You will use JavaScript to establish a WebSocket connection in the browser, and you will build the ChatConsumer WebSocket consumer to handle WebSocket connections and to exchange messages. You will use Redis to implement the channel layer that allows broadcasting messages to all users in the chat room.

The source code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Django-5-by-example/tree/main/Chapter16.

All Python modules used in this chapter are included in the requirements.txt file in the source code that...

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Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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