Web Applications with Django: Developing REST APIs

Among Djangos many out-of-the-box tools is the REST Framework package which includes libraries to build APIs. In this course youll install and work with this package to allow users to access and submit data to your web application. Youll start by defining a simple model whose instances can be accessed and manipulated using REST APIs. To make this happen youll use the built-in Django ModelSerializer class. Youll then wire up your Django REST API to return a list of JSON values from your Django model whenever a GET request is sent. Youll also use the Django REST frameworks built-in web UI and the curl command-line utility to send POST requests to submit data to the server and use it to create model instances. Moving on youll briefly examine the use of HEAD and OPTION requests before wrapping up with a short exploration of PUT and DELETE requests.