Sankofa Journal Step 9: Accounts

Add authentication using Django's built-in views. Wire up login, logout and signup, write the templates, and show the signed-in user's name in the header with a link to sign out. Then confirm the session actually works: sign in, close the tab, reopen the site, and check you are still recognized. Sign out and confirm the header changes back. If you plan to add anything to users later, create a custom user model now, before you have data.

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Your turn → Work through it step by step. This is a piece of the course project, not a throwaway exercise.

Built it in both languages?

Mark it done once your Python and JavaScript versions both run correctly. Honesty here is what makes the dashboard useful to you.

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