REST API in Django

Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs . Some reasons you might want to use REST framework: The Web browsable API is a huge usability win for your developers. Authentication policies including packages for OAuth1a and OAuth2.

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a server that you can use to retrieve and send data to using code . APIs are most commonly used to retrieve data, and that will be the focus of this beginner tutorial.

Start a Django project First, we’re going to create a new Django project named rapid-api-practice. Then, within that project, we will create a new app called api. Although this may seem odd at first, the “Django way” is to house an app, or more than likely multiple apps, within a single “project.”23 Nis 2021