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Building a REST API With Django REST Framework

Updated on April 28, 2021
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By Mason Egger

Developer Advocate

Building a REST API With Django REST Framework

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About the Talk

The Django REST Framework is a powerful toolkit for building RESTful APIs on top of the popular Python framework Django. With its browsable API, robust authentication policies, and object serialization, it offers an amazing experience for rapidly creating REST APIs. Let’s get our hands dirty and build some APIs with DRF!

What You’ll Learn

  • How to install the Django REST Framework
  • How to authenticate against the DRF
  • How to quickly create a CRUD based REST API

This Talk Is Designed For

Developers who want to build robust RESTful APIs using Python.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of the Python programming language.

Resources

Django REST framework quickstart

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About the authors
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Developer Advocate

Mason is currently a Sr. Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean who specializes in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and Python.

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