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Custom User Authentication with Simple JWT in Django RESTful
Gain insights into creating custom users, using Simple JWT for authentication, sending verification emails, managing tokens, resetting passwords, and testing endpoints in Django RESTful projects.
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29 Lessons
8h
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Hands-on experience of creating custom users in Python using Django RESTful
- The ability to authenticate users using Simple JWT
- Working knowledge of sending account verification and password reset emails
- Understanding of authentication through access and refresh tokens
- The ability to test API endpoints
Learning Roadmap
1.
About This Course
About This Course
Get familiar with custom user authentication in Django using Simple JWT.
2.
Registering Custom User Using Simple JWT
Registering Custom User Using Simple JWT
Unpack the core of creating custom user registration, activation email, and endpoints using Simple JWT in Django.
3.
Logging in User Using Simple JWT
Logging in User Using Simple JWT
4 Lessons
4 Lessons
Go hands-on with user login, authentication, and token handling using Simple JWT.
4.
Resetting User Password
Resetting User Password
5 Lessons
5 Lessons
Apply your skills to resetting user passwords with serializers, secure emails, validation views, and endpoints.
5.
Organizing Users
Organizing Users
2 Lessons
2 Lessons
Establish endpoints to list and retrieve user details with serializers and views.
6.
User Logout
User Logout
2 Lessons
2 Lessons
Implement secure user logout by managing and blocklisting JWT refresh tokens.
7.
Managing and Testing the Endpoints
Managing and Testing the Endpoints
5 Lessons
5 Lessons
Build on referencing endpoints, implementing CORS, and testing APIs using Postman.
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
In this course, you will learn to use a package called Simple JWT to help implement JWT authentication in your Django RESTful projects.
In the beginning, you will learn how to create custom users in Django using Django RESTful. Next, you will learn to register users using JWT and send them account verification emails. After that, you will learn how to make custom token claims when logging in users, and also how to refresh the tokens after expiry. You will then learn how to reset passwords and understand how password reset emails work. You will learn to organize your users in Django RESTful, log them out, and also black-list their JWT tokens. You will finish by learning how to manage and test your endpoints by documenting and testing them.
After the completion of this course, you will be able to create custom users in Django RESTful framework, authenticate them using Simple JWT, programmatically send account verification and password reset emails.
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Samuel
Samuel is a computer scientist who enjoys programming and also sharing his programming knowledge with the world.
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