10 Powerful Django Decorators to Supercharge Your Application! 🚀

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Django decorators are an incredibly powerful feature that can enhance your application’s security, performance, and maintainability by wrapping functions or class-based views with additional functionality. If you’re not utilizing them, you’re missing out!

In this article, we’ll explore 10 essential Django decorators every developer should know.

1. @login_required – Restrict Access to Logged-in Users

If you want to ensure that only authenticated users can access a view, use @login_required.

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def dashboard(request):
    return render(request, "dashboard.html")

This prevents unauthenticated users from accessing sensitive pages and automatically redirects them to the login page automatically.

You can customize the URL using LOGIN_URL and LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL in settings.py.

2. @permission_required – Restrict Access Based on User Permissions

If you want to restrict access based on specific user permissions, use @permission_required.

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import…