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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Book Image

Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

4.6 (5)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

Django 4 By Example is the 4th edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build web apps. This book will walk you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You'll cover a wide range of web app development topics as you build four different apps: A blog application: Create data models, views, and URLs and implement an admin site for your blog. Create sitemaps and RSS feeds and implement a full-text search engine with PostgreSQL. A social website: Implement authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Create user profiles, image thumbnails, a bookmarklet, and an activity stream. Implement a user follower system and add infinite scroll pagination to your website. An e-commerce application: Build a product catalog, a shopping cart, and asynchronous tasks with Celery and RabbitMQ. Process payments with Stripe and manage payment notifications via webhooks. Build a product recommendation engine with Redis. Create PDF invoices and export orders to CSV. An e-learning platform: Create a content management system to manage polymorphic content. Cache content with Memcached and Redis. Build and consume a RESTful API. Implement a real-time chat using WebSockets with ASGI. Create a production environment using NGINX, uWSGI and Daphne with Docker Compose. This is a practical book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Building a custom authentication backend

Django allows you to authenticate users against different sources. The AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting includes a list of authentication backends available in the project. The default value of this setting is the following:

['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend']

The default ModelBackend authenticates users against the database using the User model of django.contrib.auth. This is suitable for most web projects. However, you can create custom backends to authenticate your users against other sources, such as a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory or any other system.

You can read more information about customizing authentication at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/auth/customizing/#other-authentication-sources.

Whenever the authenticate() function of django.contrib.auth is used, Django tries to authenticate the user against each of the backends defined in AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS...