Source: 📖 Django for Professionals ch5 p66

Setting up built-in auth app

The first step to setting up the built-in Django auth app is to check that it is included in INSTALLED_APPS within settings.py. This should be the case by default, but it's worth checking.

Next we must point a URL path to use the auth app from our project-level urls.py file. Django convention is to use /accounts to point to anything authentication-related.

# urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include


urlpatterns = [
	path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
	path('accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
]

The auth app comes with a number of associated URLs — see Django auth URLs. Each of these URL patterns invoke a built in view, meaning that much of the work when dealing with user authentication is done for us by Django.