Django Authentication API

User Authentication APIs using Django Rest Framework (DRF). It provides a flexible and secure users authentication endpoints for your Django applications.

Table of Contents

1. Features
2. Prerequisites
3. Sample API Request
4. API Endpoints
5. Installation
6. License

Features

• Token-based authentication with Http-Cookies.
• Username or Email authentication.
• User registration and profile management.
• User login and logout functionality.
• User recover password with their email address.
• User reset email address to their new email.

Prerequisites

• Git - Download from Here
• Python - Download from Here

Sample API Request

User Registration API

POST /api/user/register/
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "username": "john_doe",
  "email": "johndoe@example.com",
  "password": "John@1980"
}

User Login API

POST /api/user/login/
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "username": "username_or_email",
  "password": "your_password"
}

API Endpoints

API Endpoints	User
	Anonymous User	Authenticated User
api/user/register/	POST	-
api/user/login/	POST	-
api/user/logout/	-	GET
api/user/account/confirm/token/	POST	-
api/user/account/reset-password/	POST	POST
api/user/account/reset-password/confirm/token/	UPDATE	UPDATE
api/user/account/email/reset/	-	POST
api/user/account/email/confirm/token/	-	UPDATE
api/user/account/password/change/	-	UPDATE
api/user/account/profile	-	GET, UPDATE

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/anuraagnagar/django-authentication-API.git

2. Change the directory.

cd django-authentication-API

3. Create a virtual environment.

python -m venv venv

To activate:

source venv/bin/activate  # On MacOS/Linux

venv\Scripts\activate  # On Windows

4. Install requirement dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Before running migrations and starting the development server, make sure to duplicate the .env.example file as .env in your project's root directory, and then fill all the necessary details for all the environment variables within the .env file."

5. Run migrations.

python manage.py migrate

6. Start the development server.

python manage.py runserver

Visit http://localhost:8000/ in your browser for access this application.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Author

Anurag Nagar