Introduction

Chat application named Conversat developed for the purpose of smooth group and personal conversation.

Features

• Realtime Personal chats
• Realtime group chats
• Create groups
• Notification system
• Send friend requests
• Realtime text messages
• Realtime audio, video messages
• Realtime images, documents uploading

Tech Stack

Client Side: HTML, CSS, SCSS, TailwindCSS, JavaScript, JQuery

Server Side: Python, Django, Django Channels, Websockets, Redis

Database: SQLite (can be upgraded to MySQL/Postgress)

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

• Django settings

DEBUG = TRUE

SECRET_KEY = "django-insecure-1cih0ds(h2(w4c)gy8+v1ihj=g-2-0d0^%xw+19s#x%mo6a0*%"

Installation

Create a folder and open terminal and install this project by command

git clone https://github.com/Mr-Atanu-Roy/ChatApplication

or simply download this project from https://github.com/Mr-Atanu-Roy/ChatApplication

In project directory Create a virtual environment of any name(say env)

  virtualenv env

Activate the virtual environment

For windows:

  env\Script\activate

Install dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

To migrate the database run migrations commands

  py manage.py makemigrations
  py manage.py migrate

Create a super user

  py manage.py createsuperuser

To run the project in your localserver

  py manage.py runserver

Authors

• @Atanu Roy