(DRF) Django Rest Framework

I personally use and recommend you for use the bellow tools while developing Django Projects:

• Git Bash Command Line Interface for Windows

• Visual Studio Code IDE for writing code

• Django LTS Version

• Postman for Checking API’s

Step 1: Create a Virtual Environment

# On Windows
python -m venv venv

# On macOS/Linux
python3 -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment:

# On Windows
venv\Scripts\activate

# On macOS/Linux
source venv/bin/activate

Step 2: Install Django and Django Rest Framework

pip install django
pip install djangorestframework

Step 3: Create the Django Project

django-admin startproject mydrfproject .

Step 4: Create a Django App

python manage.py startapp myapp

Step 5: Configure the Project Settings

# mydrfproject/settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'rest_framework',
    'myapp',
    # ...
]

Step 6: Create a Simple API View

# myapp/views.py

from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response

class HelloWorldAPIView(APIView):
    def get(self, request):
        return Response({"message": "Hello, world!"})

Step 7: Define URL Patterns

# myapp/urls.py

from django.urls import path
from .views import HelloWorldAPIView

urlpatterns = [
    path('hello/', HelloWorldAPIView.as_view(), name='hello_world'),
]

Step 8: Configure the Project URLs

# mydrfproject/urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('api/', include('myapp.urls')),
]

Step 9: Run the Development Server

python manage.py runserver

Visit http://localhost:8000/api/hello/ in your web browser or use tools like curl or Postman to send GET requests to the API endpoint. You should receive a JSON response: {"message": "Hello, world!"}.