Summary
In this chapter, you learned how to build an authentication system for your site. You implemented all the necessary views for users to register, log in, log out, edit their password, and reset their password. You built a model for custom user profiles, and you created a custom authentication backend to let users log into your site using their email address.
In the next chapter, you will learn how to implement social authentication on your site using Python Social Auth. Users will be able to authenticate with their Google, Facebook, or Twitter accounts. You will also learn how to serve the development server over HTTPS using Django Extensions. You will customize the authentication pipeline to create user profiles automatically.