Installation¶
Channels is available on PyPI - to install it, just run:
pip install -U channels
Once that’s done, you should add channels
to your
INSTALLED_APPS
setting:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
...
'channels',
)
That’s it! Once enabled, channels
will integrate itself into Django and
take control of the runserver
command. See Getting Started with Channels for more.
Installing the latest development version¶
To install the latest version of Channels, clone the repo, change to the repo, change to the repo directory, and pip install it into your current virtual environment:
$ git clone git@github.com:django/channels.git
$ cd channels
$ <activate your project’s virtual environment>
(environment) $ pip install -e . # the dot specifies the current repo