Abdullah Adeel

Hey everyone, I am planning to start a personal project that would be yet another social media project with real-time communication facilities like one-to-one chat, group chat, and later voice and video chat using WebRTC. The thing I am concerned about is Django being able to handle all the real-time stuff using websockets. I can use Django Channels, but I don't think that would be a very scalable solution. Moreover, django_channels require alto of configurations, and deployment is also a pain. My plan is to use a separate Node.js server to handle all the socket connections and have it talk to the main django server through Redis. My question is whether the above-mentioned solution is a good choice? If yes, how this can be achieved, keeping in mind all the authentication other related problems. It might be simple, but I have never done this before, which might be the main reason I am concerned. But any suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance 😊

I saw that tagged website. Even though it is not difficult to make with vanilla Django and JS I would recommend learning and building and using API. This will lead you to use some frontend frameworks like Vus.js. You can make the application with Just Django but that might cause problems in the long run and when you plan to scale.

NOTE: If you are just starting with web development after learning python basics, I would recommend using Flask as it is much simpler and powerful enough to handle a large-scale application quite easily. So go with Flask if you are new to web Dev