Django Messenger 🌨️

Django Messenger is a chat application built with React and Django REST Framework. It enables users to have realtime one-to-one conversations.

Lil bit About this app:

• JWT Authentication
• Django Channels for WebSocket Communication
• User Relations
• Zustand for State management
• Realtime Chat updates and Notifications
• etc.,

For Full Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjzBtjxXUOo

Preview

• The Main Layout (Chat Area)

• User Detial

• Is Typing? Indicator

• Real-Time Chat Notifications

• Search for other users, And add them as your Freind!

• Edit your Profile!

Getting Started

Clone this repository to your local machine and rename the .env.example file found in the frontend directory of the project to .env and update the environment variables accordingly. Refer this blog for configuring Firebase.

Linux:

$ docker-compose up

Windows:

C:\folder\django_messenger> docker compose up

Navigate to http://localhost:8080/ and start texting...

Thank You 💖