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Question

I have a project in django 2.0 nad django-channlels 2.0 which I need to host I followed the documentation and I was able to run channels on localhost along with redis but wh

Answer 1

from the docs

Channel layers are an entirely optional part of Channels as of version 2.0. If you don’t want to use them, just leave CHANNEL_LAYERS unset, or set it to the empty dict {}.

It will mean you will be unable to use self.channel_layer in the consumer, which you rely on.

So, it's optional but you need it.

In memory exists:

CHANNEL_LAYERS={
    "default": {
        "BACKEND": "channels.layers.InMemoryChannelLayer"
     }
}