This tutorial will explain how to build a chat application with Python, Django and React.
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Thanks for putting this together. I was able to complete steps 1-5. When I tried to complete Step 6 I get the following error message:
Error: userToken does not have a user_id or is not matching with user.id
StreamChat.setUser
node_modules/stream-chat/dist/browser.es.js:3186
new App
localhost:3001/static/js/main.chun...
Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
I ran into this same issue. Couldn't figure out if it was because the chat app was named auth but not listed as an installed app, or if it was because the UnauthedRoute.js has the function name as the one in AuthedRoute.js. If it has something to do with the encoded user id in the generated token not matching the cool-sky-9 id user listed in the demo. Did everything I could to troubleshoot it and couldn't figure it out. I just know that no API call is being made. Honestly at a loss here on getting this to work.
Edit: I figure it out! The issue is that the key on the backend is being generated with obj.user.id in the serializer. This needs to be changed to obj.user.username if you want to match the username on the front end. In this particular demo cool-sky-9 or whatever have you. This will let you authenticate. The only issue you should run into after this is that you need your API keys from the CHAT part of the website. To have the chat functionality there is a free trial otherwise it's $499 a month from what I saw. So if you're looking at this for a personal project or something fun make sure you don't get charged!
I had the same issue and this was the solution. The 'id' value from client.setUser must match the argument for client.createToken
const streamToken = client.createToken('exactNameHere');
await client.setUser(
{
id: 'exactNameHere'
},
Same error here.
Error: userToken does not have a user_id or is not matching with user.id
All I changed:
mychat/settings.py on line 47 and 48 => 4tk***, zgbw6*********************************
chat-frontend/src/Chat.js on line 17 => this.client = new StreamChat("60XXX");
I have the same error, did you guys find a fix ?
Great tuto though.
Happy to help. Any chance your API key is mixed up / not the same between your app and server-side code? This would throw that kind of error.
I have the same issue and I am using the following:
For the Frontend
this.client = new StreamChat("69XXX");
For the Backend at settings.py
STREAM_API_KEY = "g4eXXXXXXXXX"
STREAM_API_SECRET = "4wyXXXXXXXXX..."
I have the Chat.js and settings.py files updated with the same API key. Is there somewhere else the API key needs to be set that I missed?
The problem is that the Django User ID is an integer and the Chat is missing some code.
Following my examples:
github.com/rhenter/stream-chat-api
github.com/rhenter/stream-chat-react
PS: In the React Project I didn't create a Custom Readme, so you must to add you credentials on Chat.js if you wore to try to use
nice job on the writing Nick.
Thank you!
Thanks for reminding me how easy it is to do APIs with Django! I have an upcoming project that needs an admin frontend, a batch-ish portion, and an API all three; going with Django will make it easy to just get it done.
How to deploy it on Heroku?
Should I use 2 plans?
Or I can deploy it in one plan?
I want to use Django with React, but got confused about the deployment, and how to set Static and Media, and combining templates and components.
Because React and Django have different folder location.
Especially, I've developed an app using Django, and want to using React on the way and not from the start.
Or I should stick with only Jquery Ajax instead of React for my front end?
Please advise. Thanks
At this stage, Django Channels ( WebSocket support ) is more matured and can able to use in production.
Django Channels work, but the performance just isn't great. It's a good fit if your app is small. If it grows you'll want to use C++, Java, Elixir or Golang (my favorite) for websockets in order to be cost effective.
What benchmarks are you using to determine the performance evaluation?
True, synchronous code running on an internal thread executor on an event loop will be slower than fully async, but still curious.
And which version of channels did you try most recently?
Building a live chat app is a fun and a proper challenge. It's not your simple management system and its something unique. Thanks Nick for sharing this tutorial.
Nice tuto, Thanks!
Happy to put it out in the wild! Enjoy!
Have questions? Drop them here! I'm happy to help you out!
Cool way to use it as I had problems in using web sockets with Django in the past.
Due to the complexity and rewrite of the libraries with very little tutorial information.
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Thanks it's Helpfull.
umm. Actually i stuck it my final year project idea. i just spent 1.5 month on DJANGO. and done one project(with crud). if you have any idea please, share with me.
You can use Flask also