I want to get my head down into a small community website using Django Rest Framework as a backend and Next.JS as a frontend. I am struggling with the authentication module.

What is best practice? I thought about using Firebase as an auth provider but the implementation is quite hard - or at least I could not find good documentation.

I am now thinking of using the Djoser library to have django handle all authentication and user management.

My question is: What would you recommend to use? The official DRF website has a ton of third-party packages on this topic but I just can decide which one to use (https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/authentication/#third-party-packages)

CodePudding user response：

You can use Next Auth to handle JWT authentication.

If you are using Token authentication (rest_framework.authtoken), you can store the token in localStorage and inject the token using axios.interceptors.request.use for axios, or create a custom fetch method that injects said token in your fetch headers.

CodePudding user response：

I did a little bit of research and I think I need to get my head around the basics. Thus I will follow this tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31R1gSvBn1g&list=PLPSM8rIid1a0SMqmFOfoHRbyfQ5ipQX79&index=1&ab_channel=LegionScript) to better understand the innerworkings between DRF and next js.

Thanks