cobras 0.0.196

A realtime messaging server using WebSockets and Redis.

General

Cobra is a realtime messaging server using Python3, WebSockets and Redis PubSub. It was presented in great details during RedisConf 2019.

• slides
• youtube

Installation

pip install cobras

Alternatively, if you want to develop:

git clone <url>
cd cobra
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
make dev
make test

Usage

$ cobra
Usage: cobra [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Cobra is a realtime messaging server using Python3, WebSockets and Redis
  PubSub.

Options:
  --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help     Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  admin            Run admin commands.
  health           Health check
  init             Setup cobra
  monitor          Monitor cobra
  publish          Publish to a channel
  run              Run the cobra server
  redis_subscribe  Subscribe to a channel (with redis)
  subscribe        Subscribe to a channel
  secret           Generate secrets used for authentication...

To run the server use cobra run. You can run a health-check against the server with cobra health.