Learn Django - Build a Custom User Model with Extended Fields

Another Django tutorial, here we are building a custom user model, as more often than not the default Django model wont meet our project needs. This tutorial will take you through building a model manager, building a new user model with extended fields and then show you how to customise the Django admin interface and finally perform some testing the model.

Introduction
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00:00 Introduction
02:00 Package/Software overview
03:45 Command file

Developing the new model
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03:59 User model development
05:12 Translation
08:12 AbstracBaseUser
09:20 Required Fields
11:02 PermissionsMixin
12:05 BaseUserManager
12:43 Building the custom model manager - create_user
14:48 Building the custom model manager - create_superuser
17:52 Letting Django know about our new custom user model

Django Admin:
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21:42 Customising the Django Admin interface

Testing:
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27:04 Start testing - install coverage
29:28 Start building tests

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