Cortex is a Django extension designed to (hopefully) make realtime Django painless.

The goal is to establish a one-to-one correspondence between Backbone.js models and Django models and allow changes to be synced between client and server in realtime.

Most of the ideas are inspired by Now.js ( http://nowjs.com ) but translated into Pythonic API.

Directions:

Build your virtualenv:

$ cd cortex
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages env
$ source env/bin/activate

Install necessary packages:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt 

To test one of the example apps follow the directions in

examples/drag/README
examples/chat/README

Use

Use pip to Install the requirements.txt in your Django project's virtualenv then place the directory cortex in your Django project's path. Copy all javascript source files from static/ to your static directory. You can then import cortex.

Credits:

• Capsule - HenrikJoreteg ( https://github.com/andyet/Capsule )
• backbone, underscore - Jeremy Ashkenas ( https://github.com/jashkenas )
• gevent-socketio - Jeffrey Gelens ( https://bitbucket.org/Jeffrey/gevent-socketio )

Capsule is modified from the original, the server side code is stripped.

And yes, the name is Firefly reference.