How to Implement Multiple User Types in Django
Learn how to implement multiple user types in Django, handle authentication, and reroute based on user types.
Hello folks! I hope you all are doing well. Today, we will learn how to handle multiple user types in a Django application. We often need multiple types of users in our application, for example, an education website with two types of users — teachers and students. In such types of websites, we have different pages for both types of users, different models for them and differential access to the views on the website. Both types of users have different functionalities, so we need to have restrictions on which type of user can perform what actions, like; teachers can create a course or a class, while students cannot; they can only join a course.
I assume you all are familiar with the basics of Django. So, to learn the concept of multiple user types, we will be building a simple application where we will have two types of users — teachers and students. Our primary focus will be on implementing multiple user types, so we will not focus on the functionality or the features of the application we will build. We can then easily extend the same concepts for more user types (more than 2).
