This Django project serves as the backend infrastructure for Texter, a web-sockets based chat application. Seamlessly managing backend processes, this project ensures efficient communication and data handling for a robust chat experience.
Following features are leveraged for the application with this project:
- SMS OTP based authentication (token auth.)
- Web sockets client/server communication
- Managing messages, users, chatrooms and other data.
- Exposing end-points to fetch users' data, messages data, chatrooms data etc.
- Django
- Django-rest-framework
- Django-channels
- Redis : Cache to manage web sockets message queue
Authentication
/auth/user//auth/sendotp//auth/verifyotp//auth/updateprofile//auth/activitystatus//auth/fetchuser//auth/logout/
Chat
/chat/participation//chat/chatrooms//chat/messages/
Token based authentication flow is implemented with this project where a cookie set on user's browser after succesful verification of users' phone number. Overall flow for the authentication process is as follows:
- User enters their phone number
- A verification code is sent to their number (Twilio)
- User enters the otp
- Back-end verifies the otp, sets a cookie in the response object and sends the response to the client (user's browser)
- Clone the repository
- Install the dependencies
pip3 install requirements.txt - Run the redis server
docker run -p 6379:6379 -d redis:5 - Run the django server
python3 manage.py runserver