Technical requirements

You can download the code for this chapter from this book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-SPAs-with-Django-and-HTML-Over-the-Wire/tree/main/chapter-5.

We will be using the template we constructed in Chapter 4, Working with the Database: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-SPAs-with-Django-and-HTML-Over-the-Wire/tree/main/chapter-4/initial-template

I have changed the name of the application to Chat. Ensure that the App folder is called /app/chat/ and that apps.py has been renamed with its name variable:

from django.apps import AppConfig
 
class SimpleAppConfig(AppConfig):
    default_auto_field = "django.db.models.BigAutoField"
    name = "app.chat" # Update

If you rename an application, you must reflect this in /project_template/settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "channels",
    "django...