django-websocket-redis 0.3.0

Websocket support for Django using Redis as datastore

Project home: https://github.com/jrief/django-websocket-redis

Detailed documentation on: ReadTheDocs.

Websockets for Django using Redis as message queue

This module implements websockets on top of Django without requiring any additional framework. For messaging it uses the Redis datastore and in a production environment, it is intended to work under uWSGI and behind NGiNX.

Features

• Largely scalable for Django applications with hundreds of open websocket connections.

• Runs in a cooperative concurrency model using gevent, thus only one thread/process is simultaneously required to control all open websockets.

• Full control over the main loop during development, so Django can be started as usual with ./manage.py runserver.

• No dependency to any other asynchronous event driven framework, such as Tornado, Twisted or Node.js.

• Optionally persiting messages, allowing server reboots and client reconnections.

• The only additional requirement is a running instance of Redis, which by the way is a good replacement for memcached.

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License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jacob Rief Licensed under the MIT license.