Django Messaging

Add Real-Time Messaging to Your Django App: Django Messaging Makes It Easy

Building a messaging system from scratch is a complex and time-consuming endeavor

Creating a robust messaging system involves many challenges. You need to handle real-time communication, manage WebSocket connections or implement polling mechanisms, design a scalable database schema for messages and chat rooms, and build an intuitive user interface. Each of these components requires significant development time and expertise.

Additionally, you need to consider edge cases like message delivery confirmation, read receipts, emoji reactions, file attachments, and group chat management. Getting all these features to work together seamlessly can take months of development and testing.

But Django Messaging gets you covered

Django Messaging is a comprehensive, production-ready messaging solution that handles all the complexity for you. It's a lightweight, extensible Django app that provides real-time private messaging, group chats, and embeddable chat widgets that can be easily integrated into any Django project.

Django Messaging saves you at least two months of work on implementation. And it is highly flexible and configurable to meet your specific business needs.

Django Messaging saves your time and lets you focus on your core product

This app supports both WebSocket (via Django Channels) and polling transport mechanisms, so you can choose the deployment option that fits your infrastructure. Whether you're running on ASGI or traditional WSGI servers, Django Messaging works seamlessly.

It provides multiple chat types: direct messages (DMs) for one-on-one conversations, group chats for team collaboration, and chat rooms that can be attached to any content object in your application (like projects, tickets, or documents).

The app comes with a clean, modern UI styled with TailwindCSS, but you can easily customize it to match your brand. All templates are designed to be overridable, giving you complete control over the look and feel.

As a developer, you can save at least two months of development work and avoid the headaches of building and maintaining a messaging system from scratch.

Wanna see some code?

Here is the documentation.

You can also check out and test the demo project to see Django Messaging in action.

We are users as well as developers of our own product

We are committed to providing the best quality for this app, because it is used in production for the websites we develop and nurture:

• https://www.pybazaar.com
• https://www.make-impact.org

Here is what to expect from Django Messaging

• Saves at least two months of development work.
• Highly flexible and configurable with 20+ settings to customize behavior.
• Can be used for as many Django-based projects as necessary.
• The frontend is styled with TailwindCSS for quick start, but you can overwrite the templates and introduce your custom styling.
• Supports both ASGI (WebSocket) and WSGI (polling) deployments with a single setting change.
• Provides real-time messaging with instant message delivery and read receipts.
• Includes emoji reactions, message editing, and message deletion with real-time updates.
• Offers embeddable chat widgets that can be integrated into any page or attached to any content object.
• Features a powerful search system to find users by name, username, or email.
• Supports group chats with admin roles and member management.
• Includes file attachment support for sharing documents and images.
• Developed with internationalization in mind - all strings are translatable.
• Compatible with Content-Security-Policy via Django-CSP.
• MIT license applied - use it in unlimited projects without restrictions.
• Designed and implemented by the author of "Web development with Django Cookbook."

Any questions, bug reports, or feature requests? Please send them to https://www.djangotricks.com/feedback/