Summary

In this chapter, we examined Django’s middleware implementation of authentication and sessions. We also learned how to incorporate authentication and permission logic into views and templates. Now, we can set permissions on specific pages and limit their access to authenticated users. We also examined how to store data in a user’s session and render it on subsequent pages.

With that, you have the skills to customize a Django project to deliver a personalized web experience. You can limit the content to authenticated or privileged users and you can personalize a user’s experience based on their prior interactions. In the next chapter, we will revisit the Admin app and learn about some advanced techniques we can use to customize our user model and apply fine-grained changes to the admin interface for our models.