I did look into django-socketio when doing research, but never actually used it. django-websocket-request is way more simple, because it does way less and doesn't cover as much as django-socketio. For example, django-socketio is bound to only using socket.io, but it also includes a whole channel subscription and broadcast system so you can send messages from the server to specific channels. django-websocket-request only enables you to add a WebSocket layer over your already existing REST API / Views. I'll eventually have to look into doing things that django-socketio does.
django-websocket-request doesn't really know anything about websockets specifically. The example I provided uses sockjs which provides websocket emulation and does upgrades to other methods if supported.
