Building a Social Website
In the preceding chapter, you learned how to create sitemaps and feeds, and you built a search engine for your blog application. In this chapter, you will discover how to develop a social application, which means that users are able to join an online platform and interact with each other by sharing content. Over the next few chapters, we will focus on building an image sharing platform. Users will be able to bookmark any image on the Internet and share it with others. They will also be able to see activity on the platform from the users they follow and like/unlike the images shared by them.
In this chapter, we will start by creating a functionality for users to log in, log out, edit their password, and reset their password. You will learn how to create a custom profile for your users and you will add social authentication to your site.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Using the Django authentication framework ...
