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12. REST Services with Django

Daniel Rubio

(1)F. Bahia, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

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 ...

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