A detailed review for using Django, Channels, and HTMX to create dynamic and interactive web sites

About This Tutorial

The tutorial will cover an overview of the architecture, along with a line-by-line review of all the components involved in the system.

This review includes:

Django:

• Authentication
• Models
• View
• Template
• HTMX initialization

Channels:

• Consumer
  • Key methods (connect, disconnect, receive)
  • incoming messages
    • “dispatch” method
  • Library: django-channels-presence
  • Channel layer
  • async vs sync

Workers:

• Channel layer
• async vs sync
• message format
  • “dispatch” method

Redis:

• Channels
  • Channel names
  • Read / Write
  • Group send

HTMX:

• Basic HTMX
• The ws extension
• The transformResponse function

nginx:

• Segregating HTTP from websocket connections
• Handling static files

uwsgi:

• Running Django application

daphne:

• Running Channels consumers
• Running Workers

Bringing it all together:

• Running it natively
• Building docker containers