Feature/daphne

django_app/Dockerfile

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ COPY django_app/ .
 COPY --from=npm-packages /src/node_modules/ frontend/node_modules/
 COPY --from=poetry-packages /src/venv ./venv
 
-ENV DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='redbox_app.settings.py'
+ENV DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='redbox_app.settings'
 ENV PYTHONPATH "${PYTHONPATH}:/."
 
 EXPOSE 8090

django_app/pyproject.toml

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ django-allauth = "^0.61.1"
 humanize = "^4.9.0"
 channels = {extras = ["daphne"], version = "^4.1.0"}
 django-gov-notify = "^0.5.0"
-gunicorn = "^22.0.0"
 websockets = "^12.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]

django_app/redbox_app/asgi.py

@@ -14,9 +14,13 @@
 from channels.security.websocket import AllowedHostsOriginValidator
 from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
 
-from .routing import websocket_urlpatterns
-
 os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "redbox_app.settings")
+# Initialize Django ASGI application early to ensure the AppRegistry
+# is populated before importing code that may import ORM models.
+django_asgi_app = get_asgi_application()
+
+# https://github.com/django/daphne/issues/347#issuecomment-733132711
+from redbox_app.routing import websocket_urlpatterns  # noqa: E402
 
 application = ProtocolTypeRouter(
     {

django_app/start.sh

@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ venv/bin/django-admin collectstatic --noinput
 venv/bin/django-admin compress --force --engine jinja2
 venv/bin/django-admin create_admin_user
 
-exec venv/bin/gunicorn -c ./redbox_app/gunicorn.py redbox_app.wsgi
+exec venv/bin/daphne -p 8090 redbox_app.asgi:application