Building a user authentication app with React and Django Rest Framework

Django Rest Framework is a popular tool for building Django REST APIs. In this video we leverage DRF to build a user authentication app with session authentication.
We use ReactJS on the frontend. The React frontend runs at port 3000 and the Django backend at port 8000.

Chapters:
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0:00 intro
0:48 the setup
0:58 session authentication
1:24 coding the backend
7:32 backend in action
8:28 coding the frontend
14:20 demo
15:09 outro

[godlyradmehr]

that was really awesome, i'v not seen such a tutorial with django and react befor. keep goin dude.

[kelvinxg]

i'm not so new to django you got me subscribed right away!

keep doing the good work brother

[MrJgracias]

Thank you for making the video. It was the first time I have ever had to reduce the play speed!

[RecklessEngineering]

This deserves more likes, alot of effort into the illustrations. Well done!

[resiluck]

I love your tutorials. Clean and easy.

[andrew]

So much in 15 minutes! Thanks for this video

[NeenuJose-ovng]

Hi Dotja, thank you for making this video 🙂

[josuegarcia]

I loved your tutorial, very fast and easy to follow, keep up the good work!

[maheerab]

Hi I just came across your channel and you're are a real pro at this like you explain everything and make it easy to follow, good job mate

[raffritter]

Very nice tut again, thanks so much : )

[al.e.k]

Hi!
It's informative and short video!

But what would you do if you will need to access same backend api's endpoints both from SPA (like you do in the video) and from another api clients (not browsers)?

[Plegeus-qkjr]

short but complete, I like it, straight to the point. some webcam action at the start for personality? sure! but focus on the code throughout the video, this is what I like to see.

[eddielicea]

Got yourself another sub buddy. Thank you very very much.

[henoelima]

great content, by far the best in simplifying django principles. are u planning on making more videos about djangoRest-react?

[neliobila]

Hi Dotja, thank you for making this video, i would like to see how you protect a page and api from not logged users

[Plegeus-qkjr]

I seem to be having issues with authentication. When I do the login everything works, though, when I refresh the page, the frontend does not seem to remember that I was logged in. I made a url in mu users app in Django: /user/authenticate/, the sole purpose is to authenticate a user base on the request (so if blah blah), unfortunately this step fails, even when I did not refresh the page from react (and when I did the login successfully). Any ideas what might cause this? When I follow to urls in localhost:8000 and manually do the posts, everything works as expected.

[ahoymatey]

This seemed good but am I missing some setup steps? There is a bunch of django boilerplate code that appears right when the video starts without any mention of how to start other than installing 2 dependencies

[hamaap]

so much information in this video thank you for this

[evanmunro]

Why is it important to use the IP address rather than the localhost alias? In my own project based on this model I am seeing that making requests from localhost seems to have csrf issues. Can you clarify what is happening?

[pkorneev]

Hello, i am totaly 0 in backend but i have to create fullstack app for sceduling school subjects unfortunatly... If i would copypaste this, will i be able to add some roles on this ( like administrator, which would be able to add roles for the certain users etc. etc) ?