Registration and Authentication in Django apps with dj-rest-auth

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  • django-rest-auth

    This app makes it extremely easy to build Django powered SPA's (Single Page App) or Mobile apps exposing all registration and authentication related functionality as CBV's (Class Base View) and REST (JSON)

    If you are a Django developer and you are coding a REST API with authentication, you will find the dj-rest-auth package very useful. This project is a fork from django-rest-auth that is no longer maintained. As said, dj-rest-auth provides a set of REST API endpoints to manage user registration and authentication. After an easy installation and configuration, you will have endpoints for:

  • django-allauth

    Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.

    For example, to customize the email confirmation message, you have to create an email_confirmation_message.txt file in myapp/templates/account/email/. You can even reuse some of the content of the default file that you can find in the github repository of django-allauth. Besides, you can set a value to the ACCOUNT_EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX parameter in your settings, to add a prefix to the subjects in the emails of your app. It's important to say that there are some variables defined in the email templates that are needed and you have to keep them in case you overwrite the files. For example, this is the file of email_confirmation_message.txt:

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    And now you are good to go! You can test the browsable endpoint which receives the email of the registered user, and dj-rest-auth sends the instructions to reset the password. You need of course to have configured the email backend. You are able to modify the email template for the reset password functionality too. Assuming that you have already configured the TEMPLATES folder as in the previous section example, you can create a file in myapp/templates/registration/ called password_reset_email.html to overwrite the one used by default. Why do you have to define it there? Because is the default path used by Django. You can even reuse some code of the default file, that looks like this:

  • django-rest-framework

    Web APIs for Django. 🎸

    A huge amount of existing applications have registration and authentication for users. Maybe every developer in the world has implemented something related to this in their work or while they learned. After the creation of the Django REST framework, Django developers started to implement more and more app-level REST API endpoints. As a result, an open-source package called dj-rest-auth has been created to provide a set of REST API endpoints to handle user registration and authentication tasks. In this article I will not only talk about this particular package but will also give you some tips to avoid some of the most common problems faced when configuring it.

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