Installing Channels and Daphne

You are going to add Channels to your project and set up the required basic ASGI application routing for it to manage HTTP requests.

Install Channels in your virtual environment with the following command:

python -m pip install -U 'channels[daphne]==4.1.0'

This will simultaneously install Channels along with the Daphne ASGI application server. An ASGI server is necessary for handling asynchronous requests, and we choose Daphne for its simplicity and compatibility, as it comes bundled with Channels.

Edit the settings.py file of the educa project and add daphne to the beginning of the INSTALLED_APPS setting as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'daphne',
    # ...
]

When daphne is added to the INSTALLED_APPS setting, it takes control over the runserver command, replacing the standard Django development server. This will allow you to serve asynchronous requests during development. Besides handling URL routing to...