django-channels VS pusher-js

Channels Medium Article

WebSockets or MQTT. If you’re open to Python and Django as a framework, check out Django Channels.

Creating a PWA is not like playing a card that wins the game. Moreover, users do not yet know the potential or do not know that they can be installed so they have a bit of a hard time catching on. At the moment I use Django + HTMX + AlpineJS to build my applications. This stack allows you to use WebSockets, but HTMX is not yet very mature in this respect. If you aim to create something complex on the user experience side, I have used the Django (+ Django rest framework) + React stack for years. It's good but it takes time both for creating things and to master it. Maybe you want to check out Django Channels too https://github.com/django/channels

Use Django channels package. I'm not very convinced for these reasons:

github issue

One program I sorta like is channels. You may have some luck searching for python example repositories (IIRC there is at least one project like this, with the structure and explaining what each stuff does, give preference to more recent projects as packaging is something that went through a lot of changes in the recent years).

Extra background information: * https://stackoverflow.com/a/49043121/1842286 * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62199335/django-session-is-not-being-persisted-and-cookie-is-not-being-set-when-using-dja * https://github.com/django/channels/issues/1425 * https://github.com/django/channels/issues/1402 * https://github.com/django/channels/issues/1096

Now let's push the notification to pusher. First you have to go to https://pusher.com/ login create an app an get API keys. Then fill them in your .env file

another tool is pusher but have a high cost https://pusher.com/

Pusher specializes in realtime WebSockets and offers a straightforward way to integrate realtime features into your React app. It's a reliable choice for apps that need to send notifications based on realtime events.

why are you considering building your own websocket service instead of using something like https://pusher.com/ ?

IVS offers chat rooms, but Kick doesn't seem to use them. All chat messages are sent over a websocket connection to Pusher. Pusher seems pretty cheap for the purpose.

Serveless Websocket service

Is it possible to use Supabase as a Pusher alternative?

if you are on time, since it is a coursework, and it is allowed to use some libraries, you can check how to use pusher it should be fairly easy for you too integrate to your application.

I've built a flutter web chat using flutter_chat_ui and dart_pusher_channels, for the backend I used soketi which is an open source node.js pusher replacement but you could just use pusher.com if you can squeeze into their free tier.

What? No. Takes 5-10 minutes to set up a websocket server manually or is just requires a few configuration variables to be set if using a hosted service like Pusher.