Brief overview of topics to be addressed to setup RESTful APIs using 'django rest framework'

1. Creating RESTful APIs using DRF
Dharmit Shah

2. Who am I?
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3. Agenda
➔ What is Python, Django and django-rest-framework?
➔ Why create REST APIs?
➔ Show me the code!
➔ Hands-on

4. What is Python, Django and Django-Rest-Framework?
➔ Python
◆ Interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic
semantics
◆ Simple and easy to learn!
◆ Used for website backend, scientific computing, big data analysis, scripting,
etc.
➔ Django
◆ A web-framework built using python
◆ Relied upon by giants like Instagram, New York Times, Disqus to name a few!
◆ An MTV (MVC) framework

5. What is Python, Django and Django-Rest-Framework?
➔ Django-Rest-Framework
◆ A framework built as a django application
◆ Simply install using pip and configure in settings.pyunder
INSTALLED_APPS
◆ Enables developer to quickly start developing RESTful APIs

6. ➔ How do you separate your UI from Business Layer?
➔ What if your idea got really large?
➔ What if others are interested in creating applications on your platform?
➔ How do app providers interact with your service?
➔ APIs are the answer!
➔ Examples: third party applications developed on top of Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Why create REST APIs?

7. Talk is Cheap, Show Me the Code
(Linus Torvalds)

8. Topics to be covered under hands-on
➔ Creating a Django Project
➔ Install required packages through pip
➔ Setting up the database
➔ Setting up the URLs and Views
➔ Principles of RESTful API design
➔ Creating APIs
➔ Adding authentication to APIs

9. ➔ Python : http://python.org
➔ Django : https://www.djangoproject.com
➔ Django-Rest-Framework : http://django-rest-framework.org
Useful Links

10. Questions?