Django Best Practices: Custom User Model

In real world most likely we will have to create customized user models instead of use th Django’s built-in models.

set up

• set virtual environment venv.
• Install Django
• make a Django project
• create an Django app
• test runserver

Custom user model

• update settings.py
• create a CustomUser model
• create new UserCreation and UserChangeForm
• update the admin

Create superuser

used to log in/out admin.

Templates/Views/URLs

• updating settings.py to create a project-level templates directory.
• create .html in templates folder
• url.py: creates paths.
• test server

read source code of DjangoX project.

substitute a custom user model

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/auth/customizing/#auth-custom-user

Things I want to know more:

• Just curious, Youtube is Django built-up, how its user model looks like? and how can I locate its source code?