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Django with nodeJS and socket.io

I’ve build a small and yet work in progress, example of how to integrate socket.io to django with nodeJS to use django with websockets.
This example django project doesnt have any models or anything big in it.

You can find it in a git repository https://github.com/marvin/django_nodejs_socketio_example

Basicly I created a new django project and added no App to it. The first example is a small chat who doesnt actually integrate much from django but I will extend it soon.
All there is atm is a html5 Boilerplate based template with some divs, some css and javascript.
All the javascript and the nodeJS server is writte in coffee script. I’ve included the Coffeescript too so you can have a look into it.

First I’ve setup a small socket server. You need to have nodejs, npm and socket.io installed. 
What I did for Django:

• changed some settings in the settings.py
• setup basic urls in urls.py
• added a view named index
• created the required folders for public/media and templates
• build a small index.html

The rest of the magic is in the script.js in public/media/js/script.js 

To get started clone the git repo and then in one terminal run “node server.js” and in another run “pyhton manage.py runserver 8080”

Open a browser of your choice and go to “http://localhost”

I haven’t tested it on IE as I don’t have windows and actually dont care about IE.

As soon as I improved this example and added some more examples I’ll let you know. Have fun