Build a User Authentication Web App With Python and Django

Set up a new Django project by running django-admin startproject in a dedicated folder, inspect manage.py, and explore basic files like settings.py and urls.py, preparing to add an app.

Start the Django development server, verify installation, and run migrations to resolve database errors. Create a superuser and explore the Django admin to prepare building a custom user authentication system.

Build a Django authentication app called authenticate, add it to the installed apps, wire it into the project settings and urls, and organize its own views and urls for modularity.

learn to build the Django home page by organizing templates in templates/authenticate, creating home.html, and wiring a view to render it via a url to the home function.

Extend the authenticate base template with bootstrap, display content via block content, wrap pages in a container, and demonstrate a bootstrap button as the first styling step.

Learn to add a Bootstrap navbar to your Django project, embed it in the base template, and customize items like login links while ensuring it appears on every page.

Explore Django’s user authentication, create a user object, and contrast manual setup with Django’s automatic auth, covering login, logout, password hashing, forms, and django.contrib imports.

Create a login form in a Django app using the built-in auth tools, wiring a login view, URL, and template with username and password fields.

Update the login form styling, input types, and add a cross-site request forgery token, then post to itself and use Django authenticate and login with the form's username and password.

Implement login logic in Django by handling form posts, authenticating users, and redirecting to the home page, while fixing indentation and preparing post-login ui changes.

Use Django's messaging framework to display login success and error alerts on the home page via the base template and Bootstrap alerts.

Determine authentication-driven navigation by using user.is_authenticated in the view to show a log out link when logged in and a log in link when not; authenticate and redirect to home.

Compare manual and automated registration methods in Django, demonstrate creating a registration view, and leverage Django's automated user creation and form handling to enforce password rules.

Create a registration page by using Django's user creation form, handling post requests, rendering the form in context, validating, saving, authenticating, logging in, and redirecting home with a message.

Create a registration form in a Django app, posting to register with a CSRF token, displaying form errors, and exploring rendering options like as_p, as_ul, and as_table.

Extend the Django registration form with email, first name, and last name by creating a sign up form that inherits from the user creation form, and update the register view.

Learn how to customize Django generated forms by applying widgets and Bootstrap classes to form fields, improving the registration and login pages.

Explore how to customize Django forms by adjusting labels and help text, adding placeholders, and styling form fields to improve login and user information input.

Create a custom edit profile form based on the user change form, expose only username, first name, last name, and email, and remove password fields for now.

Build a custom change password feature in Django using the built-in password change form, a view, and a template, and update the session hash to keep users logged in.

Remove the password link by converting the password field to a hidden form field in Django, then link to the change password page using Django URL routing.

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