Rest Framework JET

Rest Framework JET is a Django app to manage authentication. It can create tokens, verify and refresh them.

Detailed documentation is in the "docs" directory.

Quick start

• Install Django Rest Framework.

• Add "rest_framework_jet" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

  INSTALLED_APPS = [
      ...
      'rest_framework_jet',
  ]

• Configure JET

  REST_FRAMEWORK = {
      'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
          'rest_framework_jet.authentication.JETAuthentication',
      )
  }
  
  GLOBAL_JET = JET(
      SECRET = SECRET_KEY
  )

• Include the rest_framework_jet URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

  • url(r'^api/token-auth/', generate_jet),
  • url(r'^api/token-verify/', verify_jet),
  • url(r'^api/token-refresh/', refresh_jet),

• Start the development server

• Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/token-auth/ to authenticate a user and generate a valid token.