dj-tornado

Embedding a production-ready HTTP server in your Django application by installing an app - easy as Py!

dj-tornado uses dj-static to serve your dynamic pages and your static assets with tornado's great non-blocking HTTP server.

Setup

Simply install dj-tornado

pip install dj-tornado

Add it to your INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = (
  ...,
  'dj_tornado',
)

And then run it directly

python manage.py tornadoserver

or in a Procfile

web: python manage.py tornadoserver