I'm creating a Login/Register API with Django Rest Framework which is consumed by my frontend, using JWT to authenticate and there are some basic things I can't seem to understand and maybe someone can help me out.
I created an endpoint to register a user (a POST to /users/
). At first I was getting a "Authentication credentials were not provided."
if I tried sending a request using Postman (on Django API GUI it would work normally I guess because they already send the correct authentication). However, when I think about it, it comes to me that he doesn't have the credentials yet since he's not registered and logged in, so its JWT wasn't created, so I added permission_classes = (AllowAny, )
to my APIView. But then it allows anyone to use the API, therefore anyone would be able to send a PATCH request to update some info without sending the JWT in the request. Anyone have any idea on how to handle that?
I think somehow I'm lacking some kind of concept about authentication. Maybe I need one exclusively for communicating my backend and frontend that will be used to register a user and the users JWT will be used to perform the other actions?
If needed, I can provide other informations about my architecture or code.