Representational state transfer (REST) services or simply RESTful services have become one of the most popular techniques in web development since they first appeared in the year 2000. While there's a long background story on REST services,1 which I won't get into here, the appeal and explosive growth of REST services in web development is simply due to how they solve a common problem in an easy and reusable manner.
In this chapter, you’ll learn about the options available to create REST services with Django, including plain Python/Django REST services and framework ...