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Django 5 By Example

Django 5 By Example

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 5 By Example

Django 5 By Example

4.6 (39)
By: Antonio Melé

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If you want to learn Django by doing, this book is for you. Django 5 By Example is the fifth edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build real-world web apps. This book will walk you through planning and creation, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You’ll cover a wide range of web application development topics through four different projects: a blog application, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. Pick up what’s new in Django 5 as you build end-to-end Python web apps, follow detailed project plans, and understand the hows and whys of Django. This is a practical and approachable book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
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Building a custom authentication backend

Django allows you to authenticate users against different sources. The AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting includes a list of authentication backends available in the project. The default value of this setting is the following:

['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend']

The default ModelBackend authenticates users against the database using the User model of django.contrib.auth. This is suitable for most web projects. However, you can create custom backends to authenticate your users against other sources, such as a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory or any other system.

You can read more information about customizing authentication at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/auth/customizing/#other-authentication-sources.

Whenever the authenticate() function of django.contrib.auth is used, Django tries to authenticate the user against each of the backends defined in AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS one by one, until one...

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