Django Rest Framework Authentication with Dj-Rest-Auth

This repository contains the code for my Medium article on Authentication and authorization in Django RESTful APIs using Dj-Rest-Auth with Gmail server for sending verification emails to users. A CRUD app example was used.

To Run on Localhost:

• Have Python and pip installed on your local machine

Running the Django project:

Create an isolated environment for the project with virtualenv. You can install virtualenv with the following command:

sudo pip install virtualenv

Create a new directory for the project:

mkdir myproject && cd myproject

Create a virtual environment for the project:

virtualenv env

Then, activate it:

source env/bin/activate

Clone the project from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/J-rayX/drfauthproject

Install Django and Django REST Framework:

pip install django djangorestframework

Finally, cd into the drfauthproject folder and run the project:

python manage.py runserver

Go to http://localhost:8000/ to see if the API is up and running.

Now, you can follow the article on Medium to learn how to implement authentication and authorization for your Django REST APIs. You will also learn how to use Gmail smtp server to send verification and password-reset emails to users.

We move! 💪