Real-time Django with Channels

You are building a chat server to provide students with a chat room for each course. Students enrolled on a course will be able to access the course chat room and exchange messages. This functionality requires real-time communication between the server and the client. The client should be able to connect to the chat and send or receive data at any time. There are several ways you could implement this feature, using AJAX polling or long polling in combination with storing the messages in your database or Redis. However, there is no efficient way to implement a chat server using a standard synchronous web application. You are going to build a chat server using asynchronous communication through ASGI.

Asynchronous applications using ASGI

Django is usually deployed using Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI), which is the standard interface for Python applications to handle HTTP requests. However, to work with asynchronous applications, you need to...