Reading-notes

Custom User Model

for a real-world project, the official Django documentation highly recommends using a custom user model instead. This provides far more flexibility down the line so, as a general rule, always use a custom user model for all new Django projects.

There are two modern ways to create a custom user model in Django: AbstractUser and AbstractBaseUser.

AbstractBaseUser requires much, much more work.

• update config/settings.py
• create a new CustomUser model
• create new UserCreation and UserChangeForm
• update the admin

Superuser

It’s helpful to create a superuser that we can use to log in to the admin and test out log in/log out. On the command line type the following command and go through the prompts.

` python manage.py createsuperuser`

## django x

DjangoX can be installed via Pip, Pipenv, or Docker depending upon your setup. To start, clone the repo to your local computer and change into the proper directory.

$ git clone https://github.com/wsvincent/djangox.git
$ cd djangox

Pip

$ python3 -m venv djangox
$ source djangox/bin/activate
(djangox) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
(djangox) $ python manage.py migrate
(djangox) $ python manage.py createsuperuser
(djangox) $ python manage.py runserver

Pipenv
$ pipenv install
$ pipenv shell
(djangox) $ python manage.py migrate
(djangox) $ python manage.py createsuperuser
(djangox) $ python manage.py runserver

Docker

$ docker build .
$ docker-compose up -d
$ docker-compose exec web python manage.py migrate
$ docker-compose exec web python manage.py createsuperuser

For Docker, the INTERNAL_IPS configuration in config/settings.py must be updated to the following:

# config/settings.py
# django-debug-toolbar

Setup

Run Migrations

(djangox) $ python manage.py migrate

Create a Superuser

(djangox) $ python manage.py createsuperuser

Confirm everything is working:

(djangox) $ python manage.py runserver