django-registration-example

How to use and customize django-registration to have a self-service signup form for users including email-activation

Purpose

I was looking for a working minimal example how I can conduct user signup for a django app. Requirements were:

• Write least code possible
• Have Email verification/activation
• Could be customized to have email as username

Uses

• Python 3
• Django 2.0
• django-registration development https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-registration (note: releases before v3 do not work with Django 2)

How to

Let's assume we're in ~/git and you might be inside a virtualenv

• git clone https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-registration
• cd django-registration
• pip install -e
• cd ..
• git clone https://github.com/tuergeist/django-registration-example.git
• cd django-registration-example

git clone https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-registration
cd django-registration
pip install -e
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/tuergeist/django-registration-example.git
cd django-registration-example
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver 8888

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8888/accounts/register/ to register a new user.

How it looks like