Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to set up our local development environment with Python’s virtual environment and created a Django project from scratch. When we start a new project, the project structure is very important and, in this chapter, we have learned how to follow the best practices to create a new project structure for a Django web application.

Throughout this book, we will be working with REST APIs, so we provided a basic introduction to REST APIs and the best practices around how to create them, such as naming conventions, adding versioning, and using appropriate HTTP methods and status codes. We also learned how to integrate DRF with Django and create a basic demo app using URLs, functional views, and class-based views.

By reading this chapter, we should be comfortable with creating a Django web application from scratch with multiple Django apps, as well as URLs and views. We should be able to add Django apps to settings.py and create RESTful APIs using DRF.

So far, we have only worked with static responses without involving any databases. In the following chapter, we shall learn how to set up our database and connect a Postgres database to our Django project.