django-rest-auth

What it is and 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—login, logout, password reset, user registration—into HTTP endpoints rather than requiring you to build them yourself.

The 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.

Use it for:

• 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.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Provides REST API endpoints for user authentication and registration in Django applications, integrating with Django REST Framework.

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.

Install

django-rest-auth on PyPI

pip install django-rest-auth

uv add django-rest-auth

poetry add django-rest-auth

Installing django-rest-auth

Before you install

High install friction and dormant maintenance status. Last release was in April 2019 and last commit in March 2024, with no active development cycle.

License in practice

License treatment is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is available in the package metadata. Verify the actual license before use in commercial or restricted contexts.

Quickstart

pip install django-rest-auth==0.9.5

In Django settings.py, add to INSTALLED_APPS:
'rest_auth',

Then include URLs:
from rest_auth.views import LoginView
urlpatterns = [path('api/auth/login/', LoginView.as_view())]

Requires Django and Django REST Framework to be installed separately; Python version support is unspecified.

Verify before relying

• Compatibility with current Django and Django REST Framework versions.
• Whether the package works with modern Python versions (requires_python is unspecified).
• Active maintenance status and whether the dormant project accepts pull requests or security patches.

Package facts

Evidence: django-rest-auth-0.9.5.tar.gz

Keywords: django, rest, auth, registration, rest-framework, django-registration, api

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