Django Best Practices: Custom User Model:

Django ships with a built-in User model for authentication and if you’d like a basic tutorial on how to implement log in, log out.

However, for a real-world project, the official Django documentation highly recommends using a custom user model instead. This provides far more flexibility down the line so, as a general rule, always use a custom user model for all new Django projects.

Setup

To start, create a new Django project from the command line. We need to do several things:

• create and navigate into a dedicated directory.
• install Django
• make a new Django project called config
• make a new app accounts
• start the local web server

Custom User Model

Creating our initial custom user model requires four steps:

• update config/settings.py
• create a new CustomUser model
• create new UserCreation and UserChangeForm
• update the admin

Create users:

• Quit the server with Control+c and then run the command python manage.py createsuperuser.
• Answer the prompts and note that your password will not appear on the screen when typing for security reasons.

Resources:

• Custom User Model

Done by Omar-zoubi

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