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django-chant is a chat via pure websockets and tornado.

At this moment it's not a standalone chat application, but it can easily be extracted from project root: use chant folder in your project.

DEMO: http://django-chant.force.fm/ (openid auth only)

chant_screen1.png

Features

  • rooms
  • typing notification
  • rate limits
  • blacklist
  • optional notification (user may cancel chat updates)
  • max connections limit
  • authentication (via django session)
  • gravatar icons
  • markdown support
  • sound notification (html5 audio)
  • favicon notification

Requirements

  • django
  • tornado
  • bootstrap3
  • jquery
  • jquery mustache
  • moment.js
  • jquery favico
  • jquery-slimscroll
  • bootstrap
  • html5

Configuration

RATE_LIMIT:

CHANT_RATE_LIMITS = {
    'on_message': UNLIMITED,
    'authenticate': UNLIMITED,
    'post': UNLIMITED,
    'typing': UNLIMITED,
    'history': UNLIMITED,
    'rooms': UNLIMITED
}

where UNLIMITED is a dict like:

UNLIMITED = {
    'max_rate': 1,
    'time_unit': 2
}

MAX_CONNECTIONS:

CHANT_MAX_CONNECTIONS = 1024

Starting chat daemon

Run:

./manage.py startchant 8877

Sample supervisord config (i.e., /etc/supervisor/conf.d/django-chant.conf):

[program:django-chant]
process_name=%(program_name)s
directory=/var/www/django-chant.project/venv/chant_project
command=/var/www/django-chant.project/venv/bin/python /var/www/django-chant.project/venv/chant_project/manage.py startchant 8877
autostart=true
autorestart=true
redirect_stderr=false

stdout_logfile=/var/log/chant.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
stdout_logfile_backups=10
stdout_capture_maxbytes=1MB
stderr_logfile=/var/log/cat_err.log
stderr_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
stderr_logfile_backups=10
stderr_capture_maxbytes=1MBr

TODO

  • add manage commands for chat, i.e. ./manage.py chant online

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