Define a custom user model for your django project

In this tuto, we will add a custom user model to use an email as username. You can get started by using the django project below, which is set-up to work out-of-the-box with tailwindCSS and daisyUI (see here my other post for details)

git clone https://github.com/kenshuri/setup_django_tailwind_daisyui.git .\003_define_custom_user\
cd .\003_define_custom_user\

Create a new app to deal with accounts

If you want to check for disposable email domains, install django-email-blacklist. You will then be able to check if a new user is using disposable email when writing your sign-up form.

pip install django-email-blacklist

Get the accounts app from github and save the folder accounts at your project root.

Integrate in main project

# setting.py

# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'accounts',
    # ...
]

# Custom User model
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'accounts.CustomUser'

DISPOSABLE_EMAIL_DOMAINS = "accounts/blacklist/disposable_email_domains.txt"

Set-up project

python manage.py makemigrations

You should see the following output:

Migrations for 'accounts':
  accounts\migrations\0001_initial.py
    - Create model CustomUser

If not, the main chance is that you forgot to add accounts to the list of installed apps in settings.py. Do not run the migrations while the migrations on accounts app in not ready!

Then, if the migration is ready, ie you saw the above message after running makemigrations, run the following commands:

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser

You can see that an Email address is asked instead of a username. Et voilà! You're good to go :)

Finish set-up if you started from the proposed project

cd jstoolchains
npm install
npm run tailwind-watch

python manage.py runserver