Every online store needs some sort of user management. Our application's users should be able to create an account, change their account details, obviously log in to our application so they can place orders, and also log out from the application.
We are going to start adding the login and logout functionality. The good news is that it is super easy to implement in Django.
First, we need to add a Django form to our login page. Django has a built-in form of authentication; however, we want to customize it, so we are going to create another class that inherits from the Django built-in AuthenticationForm and add our changes.
Create a file called forms.py in gamestore/main/ with the following content:
from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
class AuthenticationForm(AuthenticationForm):
username = forms.CharField(
max_length=50,
widget=forms.TextInput({
'class': 'form-control',
'placeholder...