Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Making HTTP requests to the Django API

Now we can launch Django's development server to compose and send HTTP requests to our unsecure web API (we will definitely add security later). Execute the following command:

    python manage.py runserver

The following lines show the output after we execute the previous command. The development server is listening at port 8000.

    Performing system checks...
    
    System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
    October 24, 2018 - 19:58:03
    Django version 2.1.2, using settings 'games_service.settings'
    Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
    Quit the server with CONTROL-C. 

With the previous command, we will start Django development server and we will only be able to access it in our development computer. ...