(DRF) Django Rest Framework

I personally use and recommend you for use the bellow tools while developing Django Projects:
Git Bash Command Line Interface for Windows
Visual Studio Code IDE for writing code
Postman for Checking API’s
Step 1: Create a Virtual Environment
# On Windows
python -m venv venv
# On macOS/Linux
python3 -m venv venv
Activate the virtual environment:
# On Windows
venv\Scripts\activate
# On macOS/Linux
source venv/bin/activate
Step 2: Install Django and Django Rest Framework
pip install django
pip install djangorestframework
Step 3: Create the Django Project
django-admin startproject mydrfproject .
Step 4: Create a Django App
python manage.py startapp myapp
Step 5: Configure the Project Settings
# mydrfproject/settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
# ...
'rest_framework',
'myapp',
# ...
]
Step 6: Create a Simple API View
# myapp/views.py
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response
class HelloWorldAPIView(APIView):
def get(self, request):
return Response({"message": "Hello, world!"})
Step 7: Define URL Patterns
# myapp/urls.py
from django.urls import path
from .views import HelloWorldAPIView
urlpatterns = [
path('hello/', HelloWorldAPIView.as_view(), name='hello_world'),
]
Step 8: Configure the Project URLs
# mydrfproject/urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('api/', include('myapp.urls')),
]
Step 9: Run the Development Server
python manage.py runserver
Visit http://localhost:8000/api/hello/ in your web browser or use tools like curl
or Postman to send GET requests to the API endpoint. You should receive a JSON response: {"message": "Hello, world!"}
.
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PRERANA SURYAKANT KARANDE
PRERANA SURYAKANT KARANDE
Engineer at Tata communications limited Enthusiastic about python libraries and modules and currently learning and gaining experience by doing some hands-on projects on docker,Jenkins,CI/CD, ansible tools. Also, started learning about AWS cloud and devops