Rest API: manage user authentication

Through this project I built a REST API to manage users’ authentication and permissions. Behind the scenes, the authorization system was implemented using the [JWT: Json Web Token] standard (https://jwt.io/introduction). The API also includes:

• email verification upon account creation
• password reset via email
• permissions system that will depend on the user's status

👉 Test the API

What did I learn?

• Create a REST API, using theDjango framwork.
• Design a permissions system, using the Json Web Token (JWT) standard.
• PythonOOP, write clean object oriented code according to some key principles
• Test-driven development, a set of unit tests used for the API development

Why this project?

Between November 2020 and June 2021 I co-funded a startup that aimed to simplify course creation and management for teachers. This API portion is one of the building blocks of this project: an educational platform for students and teachers.