[FEAT]: JWT Authentication on backend

[adityanandanx]

Requirements

Create a new django app (not project, see this) called auth which has these endpoints -

• /auth/register - User can create an account
  • method: POST
  • body: email, password, confirm_password, full_name
  • response: status, message, access_token, refresh_token
• /auth/login - User can login to their account
  • method: POST
  • body: email, password
  • response: status, message, access_token, refresh_token
• /auth/logout - User can logout of their account
  • method: POST
  • body: nothing
  • header: Authorization: Bearer <access_token>
  • response: status, message
• /auth/refresh - User can refresh their access_token
  • method: POST
  • body: refresh_token
  • response: status, message, access_token

Resources

• What is JWT - https://jwt.io/introduction
• SimpleJWT docs - https://django-rest-framework-simplejwt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html
• Random YT vid I found - https://youtu.be/5ws4RDEw91Q?t=260
• Learn to google stuff you dont understand. The whole of programming in general depends on how well you can google.

[SharonIV0x86]

I would like to work on this issue. Kindly assign this to me.

[SharonIV0x86]

I am currently facing issue while making the migrations after adding a dummy model, it is because of the conflicting the name of the app which is auth with the default django package which is django.contrib.auth under the INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    .....
    "auth"
]

The solution was to change the name of the app from auth to authentication. I hope this modification in the application name is fine. @adityanandanx

[adityanandanx]

yeah it's fine @SharonIV0x86

[SharonIV0x86]

I currently have this User model created with the following fields and the serializer. I am requesting some reviews on it.

class User(models.Model):
    age = models.IntegerField()
    firstName = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    lastName = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    email = models.CharField(max_length=40, unique=True)
    password = models.CharField(max_length=40)
    role = models.CharField(max_length=12)

And the UserSerializer that serializes all the fields. I have mixed opinions on serializing all the fields and return them in the response.

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = "__all__" #serializing all fields
        #fields = ['password', 'email'] #serializing some fields

Suggest any addition or changes to them. @adityanandanx

[adityanandanx]

You don't have to create a new User model. Django already handles those internally. See this @SharonIV0x86