Django Channels
Extends Django with async/WebSocket support for real-time bidirectional communication.
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How Django Channels is used
Django Channels is a dependency in 3 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 77 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is FastAPI (465 projects). Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (87.0%), OpenAI Python Library (87.0%), Pillow (87.0%).
Django Channels popularity over time
Gid Score 55: downloads 67, use in agent projects 47, GitHub stars 42, downloads trend 58 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Django Channels
| NumPy | 87.0% of Django Channels projects · 14.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| OpenAI Python Library | 87.0% of Django Channels projects · 22.0× more than average |
| Pillow | 87.0% of Django Channels projects · 22.7× more than average |
| Pydantic | 85.7% of Django Channels projects · 9.9× more than average |
| aiohttp | 84.4% of Django Channels projects · 40.9× more than average |
| PyYAML | 84.4% of Django Channels projects · 14.2× more than average |
| pandas | 83.1% of Django Channels projects · 19.3× more than average |
| Anthropic Python SDK | 81.8% of Django Channels projects · 44.9× more than average |
From all 77 projects in our scan that use Django Channels, including the dependency samples.
How Django Channels is funded
Install
| Package | pip install channels |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (76), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | FromCSUZhou/Econometrics-Agent, bingreeky/MaAS, alibaba/app-controller, smile-wingbow/pudding-robot, Relph1119/my-team-learning |
Alternatives to Django Channels
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Django Channels are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FastAPI pypi High-performance Python web framework with automatic API docs and async support. |
91 | 465 (28.7%) | 114M | 103K | MIT |
| Starlette pypi Lightweight ASGI web framework for building Python APIs and web applications. |
78 | 82 (5.1%) | 151M | 12.7K | BSD-3-Clause |
| Tornado pypi High-performance Python web framework and async networking library for building servers. |
76 | 12 (0.7%) | 25.3M | 22.2K | Apache-2.0 |
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