Django JWT Authentication

This is a Django application for JWT Authentication using Django Rest Framework and the djangorestframework_simplejwt package.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Features
• Usage
• Testing
• Contributing

Installation

1. Install Django and Django Rest Framework: pip install django djangorestframework

2. Install djangorestframework_simplejwt: pip install djangorestframework_simplejwt

3. Add the following apps to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py: INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... 'rest_framework', 'rest_framework_simplejwt', 'authentication', ... ]

4. Migrate your models: python manage.py makemigrations python manage.py migrate

5. Ensure to add the JWT authentication classes to your REST_FRAMEWORK settings: REST_FRAMEWORK = { 'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': ( 'rest_framework_simplejwt.authentication.JWTAuthentication', ) }

Features

The authentication application includes the following features:

• User Registration (/signup/)
• User Login (/login/)
• Token Refresh (/refresh/)
• Token Verification (/verify/)

Usage

To use the JWT Authentication application:

1. To create a new user, send a POST request to /signup/ with the following data: { "username": "user", "email": "user@example.com", "first_name": "First", "last_name": "Last", "password": "yourpassword" }

   This will return a JSON response with the user data and the access and refresh tokens.

2. To log in, send a POST request to /login/ with either the username or email and password: { "username": "user@example.com", "password": "yourpassword" }

   This will return a JSON response with the access and refresh tokens.

3. To refresh a token, send a POST request to /refresh/ with a valid refresh token: { "refresh": "<REFRESH_TOKEN>" }

   This will return a new access token.

4. To verify a token, send a POST request to /verify/ with any valid token: { "token": "<TOKEN>" }

   If the token is valid, this will return a 200 status code.

Testing

The Django JWT Authentication application includes a set of tests to verify its functionality. To run the tests, execute the following command: python manage.py test authentication

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please submit a pull request or open an issue if you would like to propose changes or additions.