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Live Django pages without Django Channels

Your WSGI Django app renders HTML fragments as it already does and broadcasts them: every open page appends, replaces or removes them as they happen. No Django Channels, ASGI server or Redis to run.

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• One @broadcasts decorator makes a list live on every page, whether the row was saved by a view, the admin, a Celery task or the shell.
• Broadcasts wait for the transaction to commit, and work with htmx and Turbo 8.
• Signs your own private and presence channels, verifies webhooks and serves push notification tokens. Django 4.2 to 6.1 on Python 3.10 and later.

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1. Install

   pip install django-hibira
   
   # INSTALLED_APPS += ["django_hibira"]
   # urlpatterns += [path("hibira/", include("django_hibira.urls"))]
   
   HIBIRA_APP_ID=YOUR_APP_ID
   HIBIRA_APP_KEY=YOUR_APP_KEY
   HIBIRA_APP_SECRET=YOUR_APP_SECRET
   HIBIRA_HOST=ws.hibira.io
   
   python manage.py hibira_check

2. Set it up

   # chat/models.py
   from django.db import models
   from django_hibira import broadcasts
   
   
   @broadcasts(to="room", target="messages")
   class Message(models.Model):
       room = models.ForeignKey(Room, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="messages")
       body = models.TextField()

3. Use it

   {# base.html, in <head> #}
   {% load hibira %}
   {% hibira_scripts %}
   
   {# chat/room.html #}
   {% hibira_stream room %}
   <ul id="messages">
     {% for message in room.messages.all %}{% include "chat/_message.html" %}{% endfor %}
   </ul>

Before you start

• The app secret is shown only once, when you create the app or rotate its secret. Keep it on your server, never in a browser or game build.
• On the Free plan, list every origin your pages load from in the app’s allowed origins (http://localhost:8000 while developing, then your domain). "*" needs a paid plan.

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