Using the Browsable API
The Browsable API is a built-in tool that allows for easy browsing and testing of your API. It allows us to read and view data in JSON and API format. This section will teach us how to use and access this tool. When we added the chapter-8 path to the URL routers in the previous section, we activated that path as what is called the API root, which provides all of the URLs available in your API, with some exceptions. Visit http://localhost:8000/chapter-8/ to see these URLs, as depicted here:
Figure 8.2 – The Browsable API – API root
When building custom API endpoints, as we will do later in this chapter, you will likely not see them displayed in your API root. You’ll see that the serializers for the groups, permissions, and content types have all been included with the code of this book. There is a dropdown at the top right of every main router path that we created, to switch between the two formats, API and JSON,...
