How to locate websocketbridge.js in Django using channels websocket?

Question

I am trying to implement websockets using channels in Django project. I am getting 404 for webscoketbridge.js Below is html template. {% load staticfiles %}

Answer 1

As the way @tobyspark said, javascript wrapper has been completely removed in the django-channels 2. You can read more on how the js websocket wrapper was working in channels 1 here.

the simplest workaround to clear that error in your browser create a file called websocketbridge.js in the path shown in the error, "static/channels/js/", or you can specify any other path in your HTML src attribute matching the location of the static files and then add the code from here.

But you have to find a better implementation. You can use ReconnectingWebSocket. In the channels 2 release documentation, it is stated there might be other third-party packages for the binding but I don't know any other.

Answer 2

The javascript bridge was removed in v2.1.4. Here's the commit: https://github.com/django/channels/commit/2a9d764ad03927581aa2bfcadccc3e953949cb98#diff-b582cbb2f8294afa8bbe26c4c360a01d

This bit me, in my book that breaks semantic versioning.