🐻 Token Authentication and CORS 🐻

Today’s Topics

• Token authentication in DRF with Djoser
• CORS headers

🎯 Collaborative Project

Kick it into gear! You should have the basics of your CRUD functionality by tomorrow.

📖 Read | 📺 Watch | 🎧 Listen

• Finally Understand auth in DRF - a Will Vincent talk -> Will isn’t using the Djoser library but he does a great job of reviewing different auth strategies and why you would choose one or the other. Watch this for a better understanding and overview of auth.

🔖 Resources

Authentication

• Djoser documentation
• DRF docs: Token-based authentication
• The Ultimate Tutorial for Django REST Framework: Login and Authentication

CORS

• MDN CORS
  • MDN Access-Control-Allow-Origin Header
• Julia Evans comic explaining CORS better than MDN does
• Django CORS Guide
• django-cors-headers

Permissions

• DRF Permissions
• Pro-Tip: Logical operators with DRF Permissions

🦉 Code

• Example DRF Library API