Source: 📖 Django for Professionals ch5 p75
Handling user logouts is extremely easy when using the built in auth app. It comes with a logout URL with the name logout, which we can use in a button or an <a> tag.
<a href="{% url 'logout' %}">Log out</a>
Clicking the HTML element created above will invoke the view with the name 'logout', which is the auth app's LogoutView. Now all we need to do is tell LogoutView where to redirect upon logging the user out, which we do in settings.py by providing a LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL constant.
# settings.py
...
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = 'home'
Now when the web element calls into action the LogoutView, the user will be logged out and redirected to 'home'.