django-base-accounts

A reusable Django app providing an abstract, email-based user model.
Designed to be extended in any Django project.

Features

• Abstract BaseUser model (email as username)
• BaseUserManager for creating users and superusers
• Fully reusable and extendable in any project
• Ready for installation via poetry from GitHub

Installation

poetry add git+https://github.com:gethgr/django-base-accounts.git

After Installation

Add your app to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "base_accounts",
]

2. Create your custom user model inheriting from BaseUser:

from django.db import models
from base_accounts.models import BaseUser
from base_accounts.managers import BaseUserManager

class CustomUser(BaseUser):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)

    objects = BaseUserManager()

3. Set your custom user in settings.py:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "yourapp.CustomUser"