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Setting Up Django with DRF
In 2003, the Django project was started by developers Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison from World Online, a newspaper web operation company, and was open sourced and first released in the summer of 2005. When Django was first built, the world was still using dial-up modem internet connections, mobile devices were still not popular, smartphones didn’t see the daylight, and people would access web pages through their desktops and laptops. Django was the perfect framework that had all the features needed to build a web application for that age.
Over the last two decades, technology has evolved drastically:
- We have moved from dial-up internet connections to 4G/5G internet connections
- 55% of the world’s internet traffic ...
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