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Discussion on: User registration and authorization on a django API with djoser and JSON web tokens.

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Lewis kori

Hey. Yes it would.

The best way to add extra fields is to extend django user model with AbstractUser, then place those extra fields in the REQUIRED_FIELDS array.
That way the djoser /auth/users/ endpoints can recognize the additional fields on the CustomUser model.

I had initially made the user profile to demonstrate signals to the readers :)

You can use django's AbstractUser Class to extend the user model. Here's the documentation