Getting Started with Python and GraphQL - Part 2

This tutorial delves into implementing authentication in a Django application using GraphQL and the Graphene library. It explains how to create a user through a mutation, which involves sending a username, password, and email to the server and receiving back the created User object. The tutorial further explores using the django-graphql-jwt library to implement JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, which involves configuring middleware and authentication backends in Django settings. It describes various mutations such as TokenAuth for obtaining a token, VerifyToken for validating it, and RefreshToken for renewing it. The guide also covers writing a query to retrieve user information, which returns data if the user is authenticated or an error if not. It offers insights into testing the authentication process, including acquiring a JWT token via the tokenAuth mutation and utilizing it in queries with the HTTP Authorization header. Additionally, the text mentions Moesif as an advanced analytics platform for monitoring GraphQL APIs and provides a link to clone and run the tutorial's example app from GitHub, with a teaser for future topics on monitoring GraphQL APIs with Moesif.