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Awesome web-browsable Web APIs.
Full documentation for the project is available at [https://www.django-rest-framework.org/][docs].
- Python (3.12.2)
- Django (5.0.4)
- django_cors_headers==4.3.1
- React + vite
- "react-router-dom": "^6.22.0",
- "react-slick": "^0.30.2",
- "slick-carousel": "^1.8.1"
- "aos": "^2.3.4",
- "axios": "^1.6.8",
- "bootstrap": "^5.3.2",
Install using pip
...
pip install djangorestframework
Add 'rest_framework'
to your INSTALLED_APPS
setting.
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'rest_framework',
]
Let's take a look at a quick example of using REST framework to build a simple model-backed API for accessing users and groups.
Startup up a new project like so...
pip install django
pip install djangorestframework
django-admin startproject example .
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser
ow edit the `example/urls.py` module in your project:
from django.urls import path, include
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from rest_framework import serializers, viewsets, routers
# Serializers define the API representation.
class UserSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ['url', 'username', 'email', 'is_staff']
# ViewSets define the view behavior.
class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
queryset = User.objects.all()
serializer_class = UserSerializer
# Routers provide a way of automatically determining the URL conf.
router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'users', UserViewSet)
# Wire up our API using automatic URL routing.
# Additionally, we include login URLs for the browsable API.
urlpatterns = [
path('', include(router.urls)),
path('api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework')),
]
We'd also like to configure a couple of settings for our API.
Add the following to your settings.py
module:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
... # Make sure to include the default installed apps here.
'rest_framework',
]
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
# Use Django's standard `django.contrib.auth` permissions,
# or allow read-only access for unauthenticated users.
'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': [
'rest_framework.permissions.DjangoModelPermissionsOrAnonReadOnly',
]
}
That's it, we're done!
./manage.py runserver
You can now open the API in your browser at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
, and view your new 'users' API. If you use the Login
control in the top right corner you'll also be able to add, create and delete users from the system.
You can also interact with the API using command line tools such as curl
. For example, to list the users endpoint:
$ curl -H 'Accept: application/json; indent=4' -u admin:password http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/ [ { "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/1/", "username": "admin", "email": "admin@example.com", "is_staff": true, } ]
Or to create a new user:
$ curl -X POST -d username=new -d email=new@example.com -d is_staff=false -H 'Accept: application/json; indent=4' -u admin:password http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/ { "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/2/", "username": "new", "email": "new@example.com", "is_staff": false, }
"# portfolio-backend"