Django Chat Rooms

This project is a web application developed using Django and delivered by AWS EC2 instance. The application is a chat room where users can create their own chat rooms and invite other users to join. The application is deployed on AWS EC2 instance and the database is stored on SQLite.

To reach the live project in here

This project is based on the Django tutorial at here

To run the project locally

1. Clone the project

git clone [repo url]

cd DjangoChatRooms

2. Create a virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv

3. Activate the virtual environment

• for MAC/Linux: source venv/bin/activate
• for Windows: venv\Scripts\activate.bat

4. Install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Migrate the database

cd app

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

6. Run the server

python manage.py runserver

7. Open the browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to see the project