Posts Tagged with 'DRF'
Django Custom Versioning Schemes: Tailoring API Control Your Way
Introduction: Why Custom Versioning in Django Matters As APIs evolve, maintaining backward compatibility while rolling out new features is a major concern. Django REST Framework (DRF) provides several built-in versioning schemes like URLPathVersioning, NamespaceVersioning, and …
Django Namespace Versioning: Organize and Scale Your APIs with Precision
Introduction: Why Namespace Versioning Matters As your Django project evolves, API changes become inevitable—new features get added, response formats are updated, and breaking changes sneak in. Without proper versioning, this can quickly turn into a …
Django URLPathVersioning: Clean, Flexible API Versioning in Your URLs
Introduction: Why API Versioning Matters In any real-world API, changes are inevitable—you’ll need to introduce improvements, fix bugs, or modify existing endpoints. But making changes to a live API can break integrations for existing users. …
Django API Documentation with drf-spectacular: Clean, OpenAPI 3-Compliant Docs for DRF
Introduction: Why Use drf-spectacular for API Documentation? Good API documentation is not a luxury—it's a necessity. Whether you're developing APIs for internal tools or exposing them to third-party consumers, your documentation: Saves time debugging API …
Django API Documentation with ReDoc & drf-yasg
Introduction: Why Use ReDoc for Django REST API Documentation? Great API documentation is non-negotiable. Whether you're building public APIs or internal microservices, good docs: Reduce bugs and misunderstandings Help frontend/mobile teams integrate faster Simplify onboarding …
Django API Documentation Using Swagger with drf-yasg
Introduction: Why Swagger API Docs Matter in Django Great code deserves great documentation—especially for APIs. When building REST APIs with Django REST Framework (DRF), clear and up-to-date documentation is critical for: Frontend developers and third-party …
Django Unit and Integration Testing: A Practical Guide to Writing Reliable Tests
Introduction: Why Testing in Django Matters In modern web development, testing is not optional—it's essential. When building Django applications, especially with Django REST Framework (DRF), you want to be sure your views, models, serializers, and …
Simulating API Requests in Django with APIClient — A Practical Guide
Introduction: Why Use APIClient in Django? When developing APIs with Django REST Framework (DRF), testing your endpoints is non-negotiable. Bugs in API logic, security vulnerabilities, or bad request handling can derail a production app. To …
Testing Django REST APIs with APITestCase: A Complete Guide
Introduction: Why API Testing with APITestCase Matters In modern web applications, APIs act as the contract between frontend and backend. Even a small change in the backend can silently break functionality—if it’s not tested. That’s …
Django REST API Documentation with drf-spectacular vs drf-yasg
Introduction: Why API Documentation Matters In modern web development, clear and interactive API documentation isn't optional—it's essential. Whether you're working with frontend teams, mobile devs, or third-party integrators, your API must be understandable and testable. …
Django Performance Optimization with Caching
Introduction: Why Caching Matters in Django Projects Django is a powerful web framework, but as traffic grows and database queries increase, your app can slow down. Caching is one of the most effective tools to …
Django Performance Optimization with prefetch_related
Introduction: Why Query Optimization in Django Matters As your Django app scales, inefficient database access can quickly degrade performance. A major culprit is the N+1 query problem, especially when dealing with: ManyToManyField relationships Reverse ForeignKey …
Django Performance Optimization with select_related
Introduction: Why Optimizing Django ORM Matters As your Django application grows, so does its database usage. One of the most common (and sneaky) performance killers is the N+1 query problem, where your code runs one …
Connecting Django REST Framework (DRF) with Django Signals
Introduction: Why Combine Django Signals with DRF? In modern web applications, many things need to happen automatically when data changes — like sending an email after user registration, logging changes, or triggering third-party APIs. If …
Using post_save in Django with Serializers and Models
Introduction: Why Use post_save in Django? In real-world Django applications, you often need to trigger additional actions immediately after saving a model instance — such as: Sending email notifications Updating related models Logging or analytics …