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Published inApr 2024
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Arghya Saha
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Arghya Saha

Arghya (argo) Saha, is a software developer with 8+ years of experience and has been working with Django since 2015. Apart from Django, he is proficient in JavaScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, and several other technologies. He has worked with multiple start-ups, such as Postman and HealthifyMe, among others, to build applications at scale. He currently works at Abnormal Security as a senior Site Reliability Engineer to explore his passion in the infrastructure domain. In his spare time, he writes tech blogs. He is also an adventurous person who has done multiple Himalayan treks and is an endurance athlete with multiple marathons and triathlons under his belt.
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Learning about third-party token-based authentication packages

In this section, we will get a high-level overview of different packages available that can be plugged into Django and DRF to solve the challenges of DRF token-based authentication. We will not deep dive into the implementation and integration of the following package; rather, we will enable developers to know about the available open source packages out there that can be easily used by them to solve problems.

django-rest-knox

The django-rest-knox package provides multi-device login and session management support. It has a similar architecture to DRF token-based authentication, but it solves a couple of issues, such as saving tokens in an encrypted format and also providing expiry time for issued tokens.

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For more details, check the official documentation at https://jazzband.github.io/django-rest-knox/.

djangorestframework-simplejwt

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a modern-age token-based authentication...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804610480

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Arghya Saha

Arghya (argo) Saha, is a software developer with 8+ years of experience and has been working with Django since 2015. Apart from Django, he is proficient in JavaScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, and several other technologies. He has worked with multiple start-ups, such as Postman and HealthifyMe, among others, to build applications at scale. He currently works at Abnormal Security as a senior Site Reliability Engineer to explore his passion in the infrastructure domain. In his spare time, he writes tech blogs. He is also an adventurous person who has done multiple Himalayan treks and is an endurance athlete with multiple marathons and triathlons under his belt.
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