Adding login to the Browsable API

If you open a browser and navigate to the browsable API at the moment, you'll find that you're no longer able to create new code snippets. In order to do so we'd need to be able to login as a user.

We can add a login view for use with the browsable API, by editing the URLconf in our project-level urls.py file.

Add the following import at the top of the file:

from django.conf.urls import include

And, at the end of the file, add a pattern to include the login and logout views for the browsable API.

urlpatterns += [
    path('api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls')),
]

The 'api-auth/' part of pattern can actually be whatever URL you want to use.

Now if you open up the browser again and refresh the page you'll see a 'Login' link in the top right of the page. If you log in as one of the users you created earlier, you'll be able to create code snippets again.

Once you've created a few code snippets, navigate to the '/users/' endpoint, and notice that the representation includes a list of the snippet ids that are associated with each user, in each user's 'snippets' field.