Readings: Django Custom User Summary :

• Django ships with a built-in User model for authentication .
• The official Django documentation highly recommends using a custom user model.

  Setup

• To start, create a new Django project from the command line. We need to do several things:
  1. create and navigate into a dedicated directory called accounts for our code
  2. install Django
  3. make a new Django project called config.
  4. make a new app accounts
  5. start the local web server

• ** Note that we did not run migrate to configure our database. It’s important to wait until after we’ve created our new custom user model before doing so.

• There are two modern ways to create a custom user model in Django: AbstractUser and AbstractBaseUser. In both cases we can subclass them to extend existing functionality however AbstractBaseUser requires much, much more work.
• AbstractUser actually subclasses AbstractBaseUser but provides more default configuration.

  Custom User Model

• Creating our initial custom user model requires four steps:
  1. update config/settings.py
  • Add the app to installed apps and at the bottom of the config/settings.py file, add the AUTH_USER_MODEL config »» AUTH_USER_MODEL = ‘accounts.CustomUser’ 2. create a new CustomUser model ```

    accounts/models.py

    from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser from django.db import models

class CustomUser(AbstractUser): pass # add additional fields in here

def __str__(self):
    return self.username ``` 3. create new UserCreation and UserChangeForm   * create a new file in the accounts app called forms.py. ```  accounts/forms.py from django import forms from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm from .models import CustomUser

class CustomUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):

class Meta:
    model = CustomUser
    fields = ('username', 'email')

class CustomUserChangeForm(UserChangeForm):

class Meta:
    model = CustomUser
    fields = ('username', 'email') ```

1. update the admin ```

   accounts/admin.py

   from django.contrib import admin from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin

from .forms import CustomUserCreationForm, CustomUserChangeForm from .models import CustomUser

class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin): add_form = CustomUserCreationForm form = CustomUserChangeForm model = CustomUser list_display = [‘email’, ‘username’,]

admin.site.register(CustomUser, CustomUserAdmin)

5. run makemigrations and migrate for the first time to create a new database that uses the custom user model.

#### Superuser
* createsuperuser
* To set the redirect links for log in and log out, which will both go to our home template. Add these two lines at the bottom of the file.

config/settings.py

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = ‘home’ LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = ‘home’ ```

• create the templates for base , login ,signup,home pages and update the setting.py.
• Add urls.py to the app folder and update it .
• Update the views.py file to contain all views.