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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

You're reading from   Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer Discover best practices, tooling, and solutions for writing and organizing Django applications in production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073639
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Starting a Project
2. Chapter 1: Undertaking a Colossal Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Project Configuration 4. Chapter 3: Models, Relations, and Inheritance 5. Part 2 – Django Components
6. Chapter 4: URLs, Views, and Templates 7. Chapter 5: Django Forms 8. Chapter 6: Exploring the Django Admin Site 9. Chapter 7: Working with Messages, Email Notifications, and PDF Reports 10. Part 3 – Advanced Django Components
11. Chapter 8: Working with the Django REST Framework 12. Chapter 9: Django Testing 13. Chapter 10: Database Management 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 8: Working with the Django REST Framework

This chapter will focus on working with an Application Programming Interface (API). An API is actually a set of tools and communication protocols working to allow two different applications to communicate with each other effectively; it is what acts as the middleman between two systems. A REST API adopts the design principles set forth in a Representational State Transfer (REST) software architecture and is most commonly used with web-based applications. Every time we mention the word API in this chapter, we are really referring to a REST API as they are technically slightly different but usually interpreted as the same thing.

Django itself relies on third-party packages to work with an existing API or to create an API yourself. A common Python package that is available is called the requests package. The requests package is used to send and receive requests to and from an existing API found on the server side. More information...

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