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Django Background Tasks

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  I started working in   django   a while ago and I am in love with it. Everything is just too simple unlike   Nodejs   where the callbacks suck the life out of you. You can find countless tutorials online to get started with this excellent framework . I would highly recommend  codingforentrepreneurs  . Do watch their  tryDjango  series . Here is a  link  to their YouTube channel. Now lets come back to the point. A few days back I wanted to run some background tasks in Django . I had no idea where to get started . Google came to my rescue . The answers I found were : Celery Threading Redis Queue Django-Channels Twisted And many more… But all I wanted to do was some background work. No! I am not afraid to learn something new , but to install a whole new bulky framework for such a small task seemed like an overhead to me .Secondly I am a Windows user . And most of these frameworks were deigned for Linux based systems. Don’t believe me ??? See it for yourself . Celery 4.1 documentation So