Hacking Django: Follow Up

28 Dec 2020

In the previous attempt to add a custom landing page for a logged-in user in Django admin, I ended up writing hacky code. I asked on the Django Developers mailing list whether it will be fruitful to add a dedicated setting in Django to allow that.

A fellow Django contributor answered my query that it is already possible to do that by overriding the login view.

def login(self, *args, **kwargs):
        response = super().login(*args, **kwargs)
        if isinstance(response, HttpResponseRedirect):
            response = HttpResponseRedirect("/custom-page/")
        return response

The above code looks way better than my implementation. But I don’t know whether this is what I want.