# Course Objective Build a real-time chat website from the ground up using [Django Channels](https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and [Websockets](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API). Check out the website you're going to build: [open-chat.xyz](https://open-chat.xyz/). I pushed it to production so you can see what you'll be learning beforehand.
# Features: 1. **User Management** 1. Registration 1. Login 1. Logout 1. Forgot Password 1. Change Password 1. View accounts 1. Update account properties 1. Search for other users 1. **Friend System** 1. Send friend requests 1. Accept friend requests 1. Decline friend requests 1. Cancel friend requests 1. Remove Friends 1. **Public Chatroom** - Build a public chatroom where any authenticated user can chat. (Django Channels & WebSockets) 1. **Private Chatroom** - Have 1-on-1 conversations with friends. (Django Channels and WebSockets) 1. **Notifications** - Real-time notifications for things like: 1. Friend requests (Can accept / decline from the notification) 1. Private chat messages 1. **Push to Production** 1. Purchase a domain 1. Host the website on Digital Ocean - There's a lot more involved here than hosting a regular website. We have Redis configuration and Daphne for the sockets.
# High-level Topics 1. Javascript basics 1. Image cropping with Python and Javacript 1. CSS basics 1. Javascript WebSockets 1. Django Channels 2 1. Asychronously talk to server backend through javascript 1. Dynamically close and open new sockets on the same page 1. Asynchronously load images with Javascript (while showing a default image) 1. Custom user authentication with django
# Target Audience This is meant to be *almost* a beginner course. I expect you to have some knowledge of web development (html & css) and python. But if you know absolutely nothing you should still be able to keep up. I do everything on camera so you can just follow along and you should be fine. If you have issues I recommend [becoming a member](https://codingwithmitch.com/enroll/) so you can join the community discord channel and ask questions.

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