django/channels

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Django Channels is an official Django project that adds asynchronous, event-driven capabilities such as WebSocket and long-poll HTTP support to Django applications. It uses familiar Django design patterns on top of the ASGI specification, with a flexible layer for custom protocol support.

Use cases

• add websocket support to a django app
• build real-time chat with django
• handle long-polling http requests in django
• offload background tasks from django views
• write custom async protocol handlers for django
• serve django over asgi with async consumers

When to choose

• you already use Django and need real-time bidirectional communication
• you want async consumers following Django's class-based patterns
• you need an official, well-maintained ASGI layer for Django

When to avoid

• you use Flask, FastAPI, or another non-Django framework
• you only need simple synchronous request/response handling
• you want a standalone websocket server without Django

Facets

library · maturity stable

websocket http-server middleware routing concurrency web-development backend developer-tools python cross-platform django asgi async long-polling event-driven real-time web-server

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