Re: Why should we use Django Rest Framework?

2015-10-03 Thread Scot Hacker
Just a quick tip: Sometimes you need a little JSON endpoint for some feature of your site or project, and a full REST framework like DRF is completely overkill. Django makes this incredibly easy, out of the box: from django.http import JsonResponse def some_view(request): my_dict =

Re: Why should we use Django Rest Framework?

2015-10-02 Thread James Schneider
> > From what ive seen when i use it its like django admin but with more > features. > Django Admin is not an API, nor can it be used that way. If you need API functionality, you would write the interface yourself, or use a package such as DRF. DRF and the Django Admin perform the same

Re: Why should we use Django Rest Framework?

2015-10-02 Thread Andreas Kuhne
Hi Robert, The main reason for using django rest framework is if you need a backend to communicate with one or more rich frontends. An example could be if you have a website running django and you want to create a mobile application for iOS or android. You can then create an API that will

Why should we use Django Rest Framework?

2015-10-02 Thread Robert librado
>From what ive seen when i use it its like django admin but with more features. I also noticed that it has the serializers are those for like using it with a machine ot translatign code? I also have question on why its needed i understand that the api is for client and users to collect data is