Django for APIs: Build web APIs with Python and Django

Table of Contents....4

Introduction....9

Why APIs....9

Django REST Framework....10

Prerequisites....11

Why this book....11

Conclusion....12

Chapter 1: Initial Set Up....13

The Command Line....13

Shell Commands....15

Install Python 3 on Windows....18

Install Python 3 on Mac....19

Python Interactive Mode....20

Virtual Environments....21

Install Django and Django REST Framework....23

Text Editors....25

Install Git....26

Conclusion....28

Chapter 2: Web APIs....29

World Wide Web....29

URLs....30

Internet Protocol Suite....31

HTTP Verbs....32

Endpoints....32

HTTP....33

Status Codes....35

Statelessness....36

REST....36

Conclusion....37

Chapter 3: Library Website....38

Traditional Django....38

First app....41

Models....43

Admin....44

Views....47

URLs....48

Templates....49

Tests....51

Git....53

Conclusion....54

Chapter 4: Library API....55

Django REST Framework....55

URLs....57

Views....58

Serializers....59

Browsable API....60

Tests....62

Deployment....64

Static Files....66

Deployment Checklist....68

GitHub....70

Heroku....70

Conclusion....72

Chapter 5: Todo API....74

Single Page Apps (SPAs)....74

Initial Set Up....75

.gitignore....76

Models....77

Tests....80

Django REST Framework....82

URLs....83

Serializers....84

Views....86

Browsable API....87

API Tests....88

CORS....90

CSRF....92

Back-End API Deployment....92

Conclusion....97

Chapter 6: Blog API....98

Initial Set Up....98

.gitignore....99

Custom User Model....100

Posts App....105

Post Model....106

Tests....109

Django REST Framework....111

URLs....112

Serializers....114

Views....115

Browsable API....116

CORS....120

Conclusion....122

Chapter 7: Permissions....123

Project-Level Permissions....123

Create New Users....125

Add Log In and Log Out....128

View-Level Permissions....131

Custom Permissions....133

Conclusion....138

Chapter 8: User Authentication....139

Basic Authentication....139

Session Authentication....141

Token Authentication....142

Default Authentication....144

Implementing token authentication....145

Endpoints....148

dj-rest-auth....148

User Registration....154

Tokens....157

Conclusion....163

Chapter 9: Viewsets and Routers....164

User endpoints....164

Viewsets....169

Routers....170

Permissions....172

Conclusion....174

Chapter 10: Schemas and Documentation....176

Schema....177

Dynamic Schema....179

Documentation....180

Conclusion....183

Chapter 11: Production Deployment....185

Environment Variables....185

DEBUG & SECRET_KEY....187

ALLOWED HOSTS....189

DATABASES....190

Static Files....191

Pyscopg and Gunicorn....192

requirements.txt....193

Procfile and runtime.txt....194

Deployment Checklist....195

Heroku Deployment....195

Conclusion....199

Advanced Topics....199

Next Steps....200

Giving Thanks....200

Django for APIs is a project-based guide to building modern web APIs with Django & Django REST Framework. It is suitable for beginners who have never built an API before as well as professional programmers looking for a fast-paced introduction to Django fundamentals and best practices.Over the course of 200+ pages you'll learn how to set up a new project properly, how web APIs work under the hood, and advanced testing and deployment techniques. Three separate projects are built from scratch with progressively more advanced features including a Library API, Todo API, and Blog API. User authentication, permissions, documentation, viewsets, and routers are all covered thoroughly.Django for APIs is a best-practices guide to building powerful Python-based web APIs with a minimal amount of code.