CollabSphere 🌐

CollabSphere is a Django-based real-time communication platform plugin designed to enable seamless collaboration through chat rooms, direct messaging, group conversations, and file-sharing capabilities. Built with scalability and extensibility, CollabSphere provides a robust foundation for adding real-time communication features to your Django applications.

📋 Table of Contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Development
• Contributing

✨ Features

Authentication

• 🔐 Custom user profiles
• 👤 User status tracking
• 🕒 Last seen functionality
• 🔑 Social authentication support

Chat Features

• 💬 Public chat rooms
• 📱 Direct messaging
• 👥 Group chats
• 📝 Message editing and deletion
• 👀 Read receipts
• ⌨️ Typing indicators

File Sharing

• 📁 Secure file uploads
• 🖼️ Image previews
• 📄 Document sharing
• 🔍 File search capabilities

Notifications

• 🔔 Real-time notifications
• 📧 Email notifications
• ⚙️ Custom notification preferences

📋 Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Django 3.2+
• Redis
• PostgreSQL
• Additional dependencies listed in requirements.txt

🛠️ Development

Clone the repository:

clone https://github.com/yourusername/collabsphere.git

Create virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

Install development dependencies:

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Run tests:

python manage.py test

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository

2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)

3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')

4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)

5. Open a Pull Request