/django_with_all_auth_example

Implementing a simple django app with social auth

Primary LanguagePython

Django-allauth Example

An example demonstrating how to incorporated django-allauth into a django project

How to run project

  1. Firstly clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Jimmycheong/django_with_all_auth_example.git
cd django_with_all_auth_example
  1. Build a virtualenv
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Migrate to populate sqlite3 DB and run the server
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver
  1. Go to the home page by opening: http://localhost:8000

Requirements

  • Set up the required API key and secrets with the providers (Facebook API, Google API, etc.)
  • To use the OAuth Apps, you have to add them into the Social Apps model within the Django admin UI.
  • With Google, after you have created a client ID:
  • Add Authorized JavaScript origins as your domain name (http:localhost:8000 if running locally)
  • Add Authorized JavaScript origins as your domain name ( http://localhost:8000/accounts/google/login/callback/ if running locally)
  • Logout must be performed using a POST request
    • Django requires a CSRFToken, which will be sent as a header: 'X-CSRFToken':<csrftoken>
    • It can be grabbed using this in your Javascript file: var csrftoken = jQuery("[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]").val();
    • Set the following to True in settings.py file: CSRF_USE_SESSIONS or CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY

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