[FIXED] ImportError: allauth needs to be added to INSTALLED_APPS

Issue

I've been following this tutorial on the django for apis book by William Vincent. I need to use django-allauth. I've installed it in my venv, added it to installed apps and done all the necessary things according to the installation instructions on the Documentation. On running python manage.py migrate , the error comes back as ImportError: allauth needs to be added to INSTALLED_APPS.

This is my settings.py in the relevant areas

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "django.contrib.admin",
    "django.contrib.auth",
    "django.contrib.contenttypes",
    "django.contrib.sessions",
    "django.contrib.messages",
    "django.contrib.staticfiles",
    "django.contrib.sites",

    # 3rd party libraries
    "rest_framework",
    "corsheaders",
    "rest_framework.authtoken",
    "allauth",
    "allauth.account",
    "allauth.socialaccount",
    "dj_rest_auth",
    "dj_rest_auth.registration",

    # Local
    "accounts",
    "posts",
]
......

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates",
        "DIRS": [],
        "APP_DIRS": True,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "context_processors": [
                "django.template.context_processors.debug",
                "django.template.context_processors.request",
                "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
                "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
                "django.template.context_processors.request",
            ],
        },
    },
]
....

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend",
    "allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend",
]

I appreciate the help in advance.

I tried checking the documentation, checked all the commas were put in the appropriate place. Looked for similar situations on reddit and stackoverflow but coudln't find anything along that line.

Solution

Its a problem with the latest version of allauth, dj_rest_auth is not compatible yet. Change your allauth version on your pipfile to 0.54.0

django-allauth = "==0.54.0"

Answered By - Claudio Sanchez