django-guest-user 0.4.0

A Django app that lets visitors interact with your site without registration.

django-guest-user

A Django app that allows visitors to interact with your site as a guest user without requiring registration.

Largely inspired by django-lazysignup and rewritten for Django 3.1+ and Python 3.7+.

Find the complete documentation on Read the Docs.

Quickstart

1. Install the django-guest-user package

2. Add guest_user to your INSTALLED_APPS and migrate your database

3. Add guest_user.backends.GuestBackend to your AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS

4. Include guest_user.urls in your URLs

5. Decorate your views with @allow_guest_user:

   from guest_user.decorators import allow_guest_user
   
   @allow_guest_user
   def my_view(request):
       assert request.user.is_authenticated
       return render(request, "my_view.html")
   

Status

This project is still under development. But thanks to previous work it is largely functional.

I decided to rewrite the project since the original project hasn't seen any larger updates for a few years now. The initial code base was written a long time ago as well.