{"categories":[{"label":"Software Development","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development/16"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides REST API endpoints for user authentication and registration in Django applications, integrating with Django REST Framework.","skillfed_tags":["django","rest-api","authentication"],"use_cases":["Building a REST API for a single-page application that needs standard login and registration endpoints.","Adding token-based authentication to an existing Django REST Framework project without writing custom views.","Providing password reset and user management endpoints for a mobile app backend.","Rapid prototyping of an authenticated API when you want to skip boilerplate auth code."],"what_it_does":"django-rest-auth is a Django package that exposes user authentication and registration as REST API endpoints, designed to work alongside Django REST Framework. It abstracts common auth workflows\u2014login, logout, password reset, user registration\u2014into HTTP endpoints rather than requiring you to build them yourself.\n\nThe package has been largely dormant since 2019, with minimal recent activity despite having 2417 GitHub stars. It carries high install friction, likely due to unspecified Python version support and potential dependency conflicts with newer Django releases. No runtime dependencies are declared, but it implicitly requires Django and Django REST Framework to function.","worth_installing":"No. The package is dormant (last release April 2019, last commit March 2024) with unclear licensing, high install friction, and unspecified Python support. Consider it only if you are maintaining legacy code that already depends on it."},"id":"django-rest-auth","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/django-rest-auth","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/django-rest-auth.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/django-rest-auth/"},"maintenance":{"status":"dormant"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2019-04-01","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"unclear","name":"django-rest-auth","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Create a set of REST API endpoints for Authentication and Registration"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":120337,"position":12030,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.9.5"}