🚀 Chat Application Features

🛠️ Functionalities & Solutions Implemented

📌 Group Management

• Admins can create groups, share invite links, and remove participants.

🗑️ Message Deletion

• Users can delete messages within 1 minute, replaced by "This message was deleted." in both personal and group chats.

📩 Read & Delivery Tracking

• Real-time insights on message delivery and read status with timestamps.

💬 Personal Chat from Group

• Click on a group member's name to start a direct personal chat.

🟢 Online/Offline Status

• Real-time visibility of user status during personal chats.

↩️ Reply System

• Users can reply to messages in both personal and group chats.

🔔 Unread Messages Indicator

• Displays the count of unread messages in group & personal chats.

📝 Last Message Preview

• Chat home page shows the last message preview for each chat.

📢 Notification System

• Alerts users about new messages while scrolling in a group chat.

🔄 Efficient Navigation

• Clicking the unread message alert scrolls to the first unread message.

⚡ Optimized WebSockets

• High-performance real-time updates ensure a seamless chat experience.

🗄️ Redis-based Presence Tracking

• Redis CLI tracks online users and opened chat pages, preventing redundant notifications.

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🛠️ Tech Stack Used

• WebSockets for real-time messaging
• Redis for presence tracking
• Django for backend
• Django Templates, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery for frontend
• PostgreSQL for database

📌 Installation & Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/your-repo/chat-app.git
cd chat-app

# Create a virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Apply migrations
python manage.py migrate

# Start the server
python manage.py runserver

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.