Summary
In this chapter, you added messages to your project using the Django messages framework. You also created a custom authentication backend to let users log into your site using their email address.
You added social authentication to your site so that users can use their existing Google accounts to log in. You used Python Social Auth and implemented social authentication using OAuth 2.0, the industry-standard protocol for authorization. You also learned how to serve your development server through HTTPS using Django Extensions. Finally, you customized the authentication pipeline to create user profiles for new users automatically.
In the next chapter, you will create an image bookmarking system. You will create models with many-to-many relationships and customize the behavior of forms. You will learn how to generate image thumbnails and how to build AJAX functionalities using JavaScript and Django.