I've been writing this tutorial since the beginning of the year it's finally ready for public consumption

https://danidee10.github.io/2018/01/01/realtime-django-1.html

It leverages an open source notification library i created called django-notifs to send messages to RabbitMQ, the messages are consumed and then sent down to the user's through WebSockets (uWSGI websockets).

The source code for the chat application is available on github https://github.com/danidee10/chatire
The source for django-notifs https://github.com/danidee10/django-notifs

I'm currently working on an API for django-notifs to decouple it from django and make it usable from any system/app you can think of PHP, Node, a frontend SPA, Mobile apps, Command line etc

If you have any suggestions on how it can be improved or you want to contribute. you can raise an issue on github or here on nairaland.

Thanks for reading

The gif was supposed to be animated

Why use a rabbitmq when javascript can read from websockets directly? It's streams and it's non-blocking... Just asking those...

You did a great job. I dunno much python/Django now tho... But I'd learn it soon. Planning an app that'll need to have a really fast api endpoint due to potential scaling issues.

I'm thinking of either node or python.