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Django 5 By Example - Fifth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805125457
Pages 820 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
Profile icon Antonio Melé

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Implementing Social Authentication 6. Sharing Content on Your Website 7. Tracking User Actions 8. Building an Online Shop 9. Managing Payments and Orders 10. Extending Your Shop 11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop 12. Building an E-Learning Platform 13. Creating a Content Management System 14. Rendering and Caching Content 15. Building an API 16. Building a Chat Server 17. Going Live 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

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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