is this client still receiving updates?

[aryaniyaps]

I am planning to use centrifugo as a service for a new channel layer, adding onto django channels. I would like to know if this project still receives updates so that I can rely on it.

Thanks a lot!

[FZambia]

@aryan340 hello, yes - this is still an actual and maintained repo, just no issues and API changes for a long time.

[FZambia]

Please share if you will be able to make Centrifugo a channels layer, this would be really interesting.

[aryaniyaps]

Sure! There's already a redis channel layer shipped by django, but group sending is slow- there is an active issue regarding that and it is yet to be solved.

As centrifugo scales, it would be a great service for a channel layer. I'll let you know when I start implementing.

[aryaniyaps]

@FZambia but there is an issue.
In order to support centrifugo as a service we need server-side subscriptions to effectively subscribe clients from the backend. However, according to the documentation, this feature is only supported by the js client.

any plans on implementing this soon?

[FZambia]

No, there are no plans to implement this since Centrifugo has no such API. The doc says about client protocol libraries, not about HTTP API libraries (this repo is an HTTP API client).

[aryaniyaps]

sorry for the miscommunication, I get it now.

[FZambia]

@aryan340 feel free to reach out in our community channels if you have more questions, as I said integration with Django channels would be super interesting. Though Centrifugo itself was designed to work well with frameworks like Django out of the box - so in general you can use Django with Centrifugo without implementing channel layer (i.e. not using Django Channels at all) - and benefit from all Centrifugo features.

[aryaniyaps]

Great! Thanks a lot! I just realized that.
Closing this. 👍