BUILD READ RECEIPTS USING DJANGO

Today, we will make a read receipt framework for your chat app with Django and Pusher. The full tutorial can be found here : https://pusher.com/tutorials/read-receipts-django/](https://pusher.com/tutorials/read-receipts-django/)

Getting Started

• clone this repository by running:

git clone https://github.com/samuelayo/pusher_django_message_delivery.git

• Change directory to the cloned repo

cd django_message_delivery

• install required libraries: i.e pusher and django

pip install django pusher

Prerequisites

Setup Pusher

If you don't have one already, create a free Pusher account at https://pusher.com/signup then login to your dashboard and create an app.

• Replace the XXX_APP_ID, XXX_APP_KEY, XXX_APP_SECRET and XXX_APP_CLUSTER with your own keys you obtained when you created an app on Pusher in the line below in your message\views.py file. If you dont have a Pusher account, sign up here

Pusher(app_id=u'XXX_APP_ID', key=u'XXX_APP_KEY', secret=u'XXX_APP_SECRET', cluster=u'XXX_APP_CLUSTER')

• Replace the XXX_APP_KEY with your app key in the message\templates\chat.html file.

Database Migrations

• Run the following command at the root of your application to make the migrations needed for the database

python manage.py makemigrations

• Run this command to migrate the database

 python manage.py migrate

• Create two super users by running the below command twice:

python manage.py createsuperuser

And finally, start the application:

python manage.py runserver.

and visit http://localhost:8000/ to see the application in action.

Built With

• Pusher - APIs to enable devs building realtime features
• DJango - The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
• Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework.