Whatsapp-Clone-Using-Django

Basic Principle/Architechture

This project is basically a real time chat application like whatsapp which supports one-one messaging with less latency. In this project Django-channels has been used to maintain the connection status stable through the ASGI server and to get real time live chat notification we have used Websocket which creates the connection. To get less latency we have used redis server.

Tool Used: Python, Django, Django-Channels, Websocket, Redis Server, SQLITE3, Rest API, HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.

--> Here 'chat' is the project folder & 'core' is the project app

Step-1: Installing the redis-server for windows https://github.com/microsoftarchive/redis/releases

Step-2: Creating Virtual Environment

Use the command: python -m venv "env-name you want to set" Example: python -m venv myenv

Step-3: Changing directory

Use the command: cd "project directory name" Example: cd django-whatsapp-main

Step-4: Installing requirements.txt

Use this command: pip install -r requirements.txt

Step-5: Migrate all the changes into the database

Use this command: python manage.py migrate

Step-6: Creating super user to acces the django-admin panel

Use this command: python manage.py createsuperuser

Step-7: Run the ASGI server

Use the command: python manage.py runserver

--> Please check the server which is running in console is ASGI/CHANNEL or not

--> Please use the same versions which is listed in requirements.txt to get ASGI server

--> The project will not be executed if the server is Development server

--> Go to any browser and search for: http://localhost:8000