https://github.com/dhedegaard/webchat

A simple long-polling based solution to chat in a browser, implemented in django using React for the frontend.
https://github.com/dhedegaard/webchat

django docker polling python react typescript webchat yarn

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A simple long-polling based solution to chat in a browser, implemented in django using React for the frontend.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dhedegaard/webchat
• Owner: dhedegaard
• Created: 2014-07-07T14:51:36.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-07-22T15:41:38.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-22T17:36:27.988Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: django, docker, polling, python, react, typescript, webchat, yarn
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.06 MB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# Webchat #

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A simple Django app for doing webchat over HTTP, the frontend is implemented in React using Typescript, and uses the fetch API for long polling.

## For running the Django part of the project

Make sure you've got a recent python (3.4+, 2.7 not supported by Django 2.0+) installed, with `pip` and `virtualenv`

Usually for developing, I do something like:

```

$ virtualenv venv

$ source venv/bin/activate

(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

(venv) $ python manage.py runserver

```

For production usage you'll wanna look into using uwsgi, gunicorn or a similar WSGI-based application server.

## For building and developing the typescript web app

Make sure you have a recent version of NodeJS installed, with npm and/or yarn.

For setting up the environment and installing the needed packages with yarn, feel free to substitue with npm:

```

$ cd webapp

$ yarn

````

For development there's a `watch` script, call it like:

```

$ yarn watch

```

For building a minified production bundle:

```

$ yarn start

```

The frontend uses a few polyfills for supporting IE10+, these include babel-polyfill for `Promise` and whatwg-fetch for `fetch`.