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_6

6. Decoupled Django with the Django REST Framework

Valentino Gagliardi¹  

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Colle di Val D’Elsa, Italy

 

This chapter covers:

• The Django REST Framework with Vue.js

• Single-page applications in Django templates

• Nested DRF serializers

In this chapter, you learn how to use the Django REST Framework to expose a REST API in your Django project, and how to serve a single-page application within Django.

Building the Billing App

In the previous chapter, we created a billing app in the Django project. If you haven’t done this yet, here’s a quick recap. First off, configure DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE:

export ...