jazzband/djangorestframework-simplejwt

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Simple JWT is a JSON Web Token authentication plugin for the Django REST Framework. It provides token-based authentication for Django REST APIs with minimal configuration.

Use cases

• add JWT authentication to a Django REST Framework API
• issue and refresh access tokens for a REST API
• secure Django API endpoints with token-based auth
• implement login with JSON Web Tokens in Django
• replace session auth with stateless JWT auth in DRF

When to choose

• you are building a REST API with Django REST Framework and need JWT auth
• you want a well-maintained, widely used JWT solution for Django
• you need stateless authentication for mobile or SPA clients consuming a Django API

When to avoid

• your project does not use Django or Django REST Framework
• you need OAuth2 or full identity provider features rather than simple JWT auth
• you prefer session-based authentication for a traditional server-rendered Django app

Facets

library · maturity stable

auth middleware web-development backend security apis python jwt django django-rest-framework token-authentication rest-api

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