Django for APIs
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Completed on 2020-05-25
About the Book
Learn how to build web APIs with Python and Django 2.2.
Take a modern API-first approach to creating 3 different Django back-ends: a Library API, Todo API, and a Blog API with user authentication, permissions, proper documentation, and more. You'll even learn how to connect them to a React front-end for a truly full-stack web application.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Web APIs
- Chapter 2: Library website and API
- Chapter 3: Todo API
- Chapter 4: Todo React Front-end
- Chapter 5: Blog API
- Chapter 6: Permissions
- Chapter 7: User Authentication
- Chapter 8: Viewsets and Routers
- Chapter 9: Schemas and Documentation
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Prerequisites
- Why APIs
- Django REST Framework
- Why this book
- Conclusion
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Chapter 1: Web APIs
- World Wide Web
- URLs
- Internet Protocol Suite
- HTTP Verbs
- Endpoints
- HTTP
- Status Codes
- Statelessness
- REST
- Conclusion
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Chapter 2: Library Website and API
- Traditional Django
- First app
- Models
- Admin
- Views
- URLs
- Webpage
- Django REST Framework
- URLs
- Views
- Serializers
- cURL
- Browsable API
- Conclusion
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Chapter 3: Todo API
- Initial Set Up
- Models
- Django REST Framework
- URLs
- Serializers
- Views
- Consuming the API
- Browsable API
- CORS
- Tests
- Conclusion
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Chapter 4: Todo React Front-end
- Install Node
- Install React
- Mock data
- Django REST Framework + React
- Conclusion
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Chapter 5: Blog API
- Initial Set Up
- Model
- Tests
- Django REST Framework
- URLs
- Serializers
- Views
- Browsable API
- Conclusion
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Chapter 6: Permissions
- Create a new user
- Add log in to the browsable API
- AllowAny
- View-Level Permissions
- Project-Level Permissions
- Custom permissions
- Conclusion
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Chapter 7: User Authentication
- Basic Authentication
- Session Authentication
- Token Authentication
- Default Authentication
- Implementing token authentication
- Endpoints
- dj-rest-auth
- User Registration
- Tokens
- Conclusion
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Chapter 8: Viewsets and Routers
- User endpoints
- Viewsets
- Routers
- Conclusion
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Chapter 9: Schemas and Documentation
- Schemas
- Documentation
- Conclusion
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Conclusion
- Next Steps
- Giving Thanks
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