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 😊