Building APIs with Django and Django Rest Framework

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An opinionated guide to building APIs with modern tools.

Dramatis personæ

• Python: A programming language
• Django: A framework for Python
• Django rest framework: A flexible toolkit for building APIs
• CircleCI: Keeps your documentation and API in sync

Chapters

• The importance of Documentation driven development and summary of API we will need
• What we will build and the API
• Models and Admin (Probably the same as Django tutorial)
• Building API with Django-Rest-Framework
• Authentication and access control with DRF
• Testing and CI: Introduction to Django testing, language agnostic API testing and CircleCI
• Consuming and collaborating with API: Introduce Postman, ngrok, angular