feat: integrate django channels into the project

This will help the project integrate other non-http protocols such as websockets in the future thus making this a robust platform to serve metadata and receive data from IDR clients.

config/asgi.py

@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@
 
 import os
 
+from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter
 from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
 
 os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "config.settings.local")
+# Initialize Django ASGI application early to ensure the AppRegistry
+# is populated before importing code that may import ORM models.
+django_asgi_app = get_asgi_application()
 
-application = get_asgi_application()
+application = ProtocolTypeRouter({"http": django_asgi_app})