Writing the User Registration Feature

Now that we are done with the user application, we can confidently move on to adding a login and registration feature to the project.

Before accessing protected data, the user needs to be authenticated. This comes with the assumption that there is a registration system to create an account and credentials.

JWT authentication

To make things simpler, if the registration of a user is successful, we will provide credentials, here JWTs, so the user won’t have to log in again to start a session—a win for user experience.

Note: We have already installed the djangorestframework-simplejwt authentication plugin for DRF to handle JWT authentication. Please look at the Appendix for more details. ...