This demo now lives in hotwire-django/turbo-django! All updates will happen over there.

This repository contains a demonstration of Hotwire, specifically the three components of Turbo to build a realtime chat app in Django with only server-side custom code. It makes use of Django Channels for websocket support.

To run this demo, after cloning the repository:

1. pipenv install
2. pipenv shell
3. ./manage.py migrate
4. ./manage.py createsuperuser
5. ./manage.py runserver
6. Log into localhost:8000/admin and create a Room
7. Go to localhost:8000, select your room, and start chatting! Open as many windows as you'd like.