Decoupled Django: Understand and Build Decoupled Django Architectures for JavaScript Front-ends

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V. GagliardiDecoupled Django https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7144-5_3

3. Modern Django and the Django REST Framework

Valentino Gagliardi¹  

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Colle di Val D’Elsa, Italy

 

This chapter covers:

• The Django REST framework and Django side by side

• Asynchronous Django

I guess all Django developers share a common story. They built a lot of stuff and tried the mini-framework approach à la Flask, but in the end, they always returned to Django simply because it is opinionated, and it offers all the tools for building full-stack web applications with Python. The Django REST Framework is a Django package that follows the same pragmatic approach. In this chapter, we compare ...