Summary
In this chapter, you learned how to create a chat server using Channels. You implemented both a WebSocket consumer and a client. By enabling communication through a channel layer with Redis and modifying the consumer to be fully asynchronous, you improved the responsiveness and scalability of your application. Additionally, you implemented chat message persistence, providing a robust and user-friendly experience and maintaining chat history for users over time. The skills you learned in this chapter will help you in any future implementations of asynchronous real-time functionalities.
The next chapter will teach you how to build a production environment for your Django project using NGINX, uWSGI, and Daphne with Docker Compose. You will also learn how to implement custom middleware for request/response processing across your entire application, and how to develop custom management commands, which enable you to automate tasks and execute them via the command line.
