Who will serve ASGI and WSGI when I add daphne to Django?

Question

When I add daphne in INSTALLED_APPS how will it work?

Does it work itself to serve WSGI and ASGI ?

Or does it work alone to serve ASGI only?

And Gunicorn still working to serve WSGI?

if daphne works alone to serve ASGI only, and Gunicorn works alone to serve WSGI only... that meansI am running two servers in the same time.

right?

i have read the document of Channels and ASGI ... but i did not find any thing talks about this thing .. and how will it act >> or if does it take everything and serve them all.

if thet so, then i have to deploy my project on a server and run daphne only right?

channels document.

ASGI document.

Answer 1

Daphne is specifically for ASGI applications, and it doesn't replace a WSGI server like Gunicorn for handling traditional HTTP requests.

Daphne serves as an ASGI server, primarily handling asynchronous tasks like WebSocket connections. It's used for Django Channels.

Daphne does not serve WSGI applications. For synchronous HTTP requests (WSGI), you still need a traditional WSGI server like Gunicorn.

If your Django project uses both ASGI (for async features) and WSGI (for standard HTTP requests), you'll run both Daphne (for ASGI) and a WSGI server like Gunicorn simultaneously.

For a project solely using ASGI features (like Django Channels), deploy with Daphne. If you have both WSGI and ASGI components, deploy with both Daphne and a WSGI server.

Some references for you if you need more information.

Django's Official Documentation on Using Daphne

Deploying Django with ASGI

ASGI 3.0 Documentation

Answer 2

To quote the official channels docs

You can choose to either use Daphne for all requests - HTTP and WebSocket - or if you are conservative about stability, keep running standard HTTP requests through a WSGI server and use Daphne only for things WSGI cannot do, like HTTP long-polling and WebSockets. If you do split, you’ll need to put something in front of Daphne and your WSGI server to work out what requests to send to each (using HTTP path or domain) - that’s not covered here, just know you can do it.

So it's your choice, the answer is either.