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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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.
In this course, you will learn to use a package called Simple JWT to help implement JWT authentication in your Django RESTful pr...Show More

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

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
Hands-on experience of creating custom users in Python using Django RESTful

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TAKEAWAY SKILLS

User authentication in Django

REST API

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