django-rapyd-modernauth 0.0.5

A Django application that provides a custom User model where the username is the email address.

Django Rapyd ModernAuth

This package provides a custom User model where the username is the email address.

Inspiration

Users today expect to use their email address as the username during authentication. This works well because:

• Users already know their email addresses by heart.
• Since email addresses are unique, users don't need to remember yet another item when either signing up or logging into web applications. IMHO this is a significant factor that plays a vital role in user adoption.
• This is a time tested model and many web applications today follow this.

However, Django's default approach for authentication requires a user provide both a username and an email address during sign up and then just use the username during login.

Usage

Note: Django recommends you do this right at the beginning of the project. Making this change mid-project becomes significantly harder.

Install the package with:

pip install django-rapyd-modernauth

Add modernauth to INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
..
..
"modernauth"
]

Set modernauth.User as the AUTH_USER_MODEL.

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "modernauth.User"

Create models with:

./manage.py migrate