Adding the Login Feature
Explore how to implement a login feature using Django REST framework and JWT authentication. Learn to create serializers and viewsets that validate user credentials and return access and refresh tokens, ensuring secure user authentication with Django.
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We are now sure that the endpoint behaves as we wish. The next step is adding the login endpoint following the same process: writing the serializer and the viewset, and then registering the route.
The login feature will require the email or the username with the password. Using the djangorestframework-simplejwt package, which provides a serializer called TokenObtainPairSerializer, we’ll write a serializer to check for user authentication but also return ...