Building a register success page for my Django app

I’m currently building the authentication process for my django app (login, sign up, password resets).

The Previous Problem: My sign up page for my Django app redirected to the homepage after the user had successfully signed up

The Solution: When the user has successfully signed up, redirect them to a new separate webpage that tells them their sign up has been successful

I found the implementation fairly straight forward, the only issue I came across was with the redirect in my views.py to the register success page.

My url for the register success page:

path('accounts/register_sucess/', views.register_success, name='register-success')

My views.py file:

def register(response):
    if response.method == "POST":
        form = RegisterForm(response.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return redirect('register-success')
    else:
        form = RegisterForm()

    return render(response, "registration/register.html", {"form": form})

At first, I’d told the views function to redirect to ‘register_success’ with an underscore when the registration form was successfully submitted,
because that matches the name of the html file I needed to render.

That resulted in this error:

NoReverseMatch at /accounts/register/
Reverse for ‘register_success’ not found. ‘register_success’ is not a valid view function or pattern name.

Once I changed redirect('register_success') to redirect-success to match the name it has in the url route, it worked as expected.

Now the implementation is done, so when a user is successfully signed up, they get confirmation that the sign up process has worked

Even though it’s such a simple page, I think it’s a big improvement in the user experience sign up flow to see a message confirming sign up has been successful, instead of being redirected to the homepage without any message.

The next step – password resets!