Creating a login page

Let’s implement the login page. This time, we won’t use Django forms; we will create our own HTML form (to learn a new approach). Let’s follow the following steps:

1. Configure a login URL.
2. Define the login function.
3. Create an accounts login template.
4. Add a link to the base template.
5. Redirect a registered user to the login page.

We’ll see these steps to create a login page, in depth, in the next few subsections.

Configuring a login URL

In /accounts/urls.py, add the following path in bold:

from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
    path('signup', views.signup, name='accounts.signup'),
    path('login/', views.login, name='accounts.login'),
]

So, if a URL matches the /accounts/login path, it will execute the login function defined in the views file.

Now that we have the new path, let’...