Sending plain text from the backend

Let’s build the first minimalistic consumer that greets a WebSocket client when it connects. Later, we will add complexity and other actions.

All the code for the example can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-SPAs-with-Django-and-HTML-Over-the-Wire/tree/main/chapter-3/Sending%20plain%20text:

1. We create app/simple_app/consumers.py with the following content:

   # app/simple_app/consumers.py
   from channels.generic.websocket import WebsocketConsumer
    
   class EchoConsumer(WebsocketConsumer):
    
       def connect(self):
           """Event when client connects"""
    
           # Informs client of successful connection
           self.accept()
    
           # Send message to client
           self...