Django-jqchat is a chat client for Django.

Try out the demo.

Features

• Uses the jQuery library (so for example fits in nicely with a Pinax project).
• Extensible (see below).

Extensible: what do you mean?

I had a specific requirement to add a chat client to a page, where the chat window was not the only data that was to be updated by Ajax calls.

The solution was to write a basic chat client that allows extra data to be piggybacked on the Ajax payloads; for an example, see this demo where a description field can be updated by the user.

Sites that use this application

• demo site.
• soon to be included in FriendcodeConnect.com - 'lobbies' will include this chat client.

To Do

This chat client is still very basic; during summer 2009 I will be making changes to improve performance, this so far has not been a design objective.