I'm new to Django and JavaScript, so please forgive me if this is an obvious question.
What is the best way to authenticate users?
I can only find posts about using this which doesn't support django 2.
Thanks for your help.
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django-rest-framework provides several solutions for authentication. I recommend to read carefully the docs : http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/authentication/
I've already used Token authentication on several projects and it works fine:
You need to install the rest_framework.authtoken app in your project. This app is provided with django-rest-framework
Then you need create a token for every user. There are several ways described in the docs.
On the client side, you need to implement a login form. Your backend will check user and password and gets back the user token.
Then you can pass this token in the header of every request:
Authorization: Token value-of-the-token
Make sure to use https if you use Token authentication.
