Django Authentication

Django Authentication — a practical guide to Django authentication with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Django ships with User model, login views, password hashing, and `@login_required`.

Protect a view

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def dashboard(request):
    return render(request, 'dashboard.html')