JSON Web Token authentication middleware
This hasn't been thoroughly tested yet but so far it works great. We had no use for sessions or the built in authentication middleware for django as this was built to be a microservice for authentication. Unfortunately if you just use the django rest framework-jwt package the authentication occurs at the view level meaning request.user.is_authenticated() will always return False. We have a few internal non-api views that needed @login_required. We have a stripped down version of django that is very performant that we are using for microservices with built-in authorization using JSON Web Tokens. This service is authentication which has access to a `users` table. Any questions or curious how well lightweight django is working for microservices, or we he are doing the the authorization on the other services, or just improvements please drop a line - thanks.
- middleware
- authentication
- json web token
- django-rest-framework
- JWT