Browsing the API

With the recent edits, we made it possible for our API to use the default content renderers configured in Django REST Framework, and therefore, our API is capable of rendering text/html content. We can take advantage of the browsable API, a feature included in Django REST Framework that generates human-friendly HTML output for each resource whenever the request specifies text/html as the value for the Content-type key in the request header.

Whenever we enter a URL for an API resource in a web browser, the browser will require an HTML response, and therefore, Django REST Framework will provide an HTML response built with the Bootstrap popular frontend component library. You can read more about Bootstrap here: http://getbootstrap.com. This response will include a section that displays the resource content in JSON, buttons to perform different requests, and forms to submit data to the resources. As with everything in Django REST Framework, we can customize the templates and...