This tutorial is for how to build a chat application with Django Channels. The tutorial series can be watched here
To run the frontend, run:
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
cd src
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py runserver
To run the backend:
cd frontend
npm i
npm start
To build for deployment:
npm run build
Please note this is a demo project of the concepts used in building a chat app. It is simply not production ready. The project is setup for deployment on Heroku however you'll need to follow tutorials on how to get this up and running