🐝 Token Authentication and CORS 🐝

Today’s Topics

• QuestionBox models
• Token authentication in DRF with djoser
• CORS headers

🎯 Project: QuestionBox

Kick QuestionBox into gear! You should be able to return questions and answers at least 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