How to display messages in a chat application in Django

Question

I am building a chat application in Django. But I am confused about how to show messages as soon as the person on the other side sends a message. At present, I have to reload the page to view the messages. I thought of refreshing the page automatically for 3-5 seconds. Is there any way to display messages as soon as the other person sends a message

Answer 1

You need to use websockets to obtain such type of applications. Web sockets maintain a link with your server and when ever there is a change in server the user gets notified automatically without refreshing.

Answer 2

You should use websockets to accomplish this. The library to go is django channels ( https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) and in their example they also build a small chat application.