Chat App

Group chat app built with Django, django-channels, and rest_framework

Table Of Contents

• Chat App
  • Table Of Contents
    • Installation
    • Setup
    • Features
    • Screenshots

Installation

• Clone this repository https://github.com/AI-General/chat-app

git clone https://github.com/AI-General/chat-app
cd chat-app

• Activate the local environment

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate

• Install the requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Migrate the database

./manage.py makemigrations
./manage.py migrate

Setup

Go to app/settings.py to set your Redis url

CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
        "default":{
            "BACKEND":"channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer",
            "CONFIG":{
                "hosts":[('localhost', 6379)],
            }
        },
}

You can run the server by using command

./manage.py runserver

Create your bot!

./manage.py create_bot

Username for your bot : ganteng
File name to generate : bot_ganteng.py
Bot Description : Test
Message Handler (e.g : /hello,/fush,/foo) : /hello,/world
File created /home/vvvv/project/app/bots/bot_ganteng.py
User for bot created!

The command will automatically create a user for the bot, and save a file to execute bot commands

You can customize the response bot in the file that was created

async def execute_command(argument, group_room_code):
    return "Change this response!"
    

Activate your bot in room settings!

Features

• Login and Register
• Any logged in user can create a room
• Authenticated user can generate new room code, and delete their own room
• Basic Bot feature
• Messages saved to database
• Messages from not logged in user will no saved to database

Screenshots

Chat Section

Chat template i got from https://github.com/pamekasancode/webchat-js/tree/master (thx a lot for this guy)