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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Python and Django, then this book is for you. In the process of building four professional Django projects, you will learn about Django 3 features, how to solve common web development problems, how to implement best practices, and how to successfully deploy your applications. In this book, you will build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e-learning platform. Step-by-step guidance will teach you how to integrate popular technologies, enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects. By the end of this book, you will have mastered Django 3 by building advanced web applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Adding social authentication to your site

You might also want to add social authentication to your site using services such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google. Python Social Auth is a Python module that simplifies the process of adding social authentication to your website. Using this module, you can let your users log in to your website using their accounts from other services.

Social authentication is a widely used feature that makes the authentication process easier for users. You can find the code of this module at https://github.com/python-social-auth.

This module comes with authentication backends for different Python frameworks, including Django. To install the Django package via pip, open the console and run the following command:

pip install social-auth-app-django==3.1.0

Then add social_django to the INSTALLED_APPS setting in the settings.py file of your project:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    #...
    'social_django',
]

This is the default...