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Django Rest Framework Curriculum

Emmanuel Jolaiya, Geospatial Software Engineer, Founder, Spatialnode.

Training Duration: 3

Day 1

Prerequisites
- Django/GeoDjango
Why learn Django Rest Framework(DRF)?
- Job Opportunities, build your ideas, logical next step, fun!
Who uses Django/DRF?
- Spatialnode, Instagram, Reddit, Spotify, Eventbrite, Pinterest, Disqus, Sentry etc
What is an API?
- Application Programming Interface
Some Backend concepts
- URLs/Endpoints/API Routes
- CRUD - Create Update Delete
- HTTP & HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) Verbs
  - Waiter can you GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH me a jollof rice
  - GET: fetch/collect/request
  - POST: giving/paying
  - DELETE: cancel my order/delete request
  - PATCH: edit my order/partial change of order
  - PUT: complete change of order
- Statelessness
- Status codes
  - 200 : OK
  - 400 : Bad Request
  - 404 : Not Found
  - 500 : Server Error
  - 201 : HTTP Created
  - 422 : ....
- client server architecture
- Microservices
- Representative State Transfer (REST)
  - www.myendpoint.com/blogs
- WebHooks
  - Listen to request and process
  - business logic ->
- Servers
- Staging environment - test your features/API
- Production environment - what the user interacts with
- CI/CD - Continuous Integration/ Continuous Development - DevOps
  - Circle CI
  - GitHub Action ...
- Logging/Monitoring
What is DRF
Main Function of DRF
What is Javascript Object Notation (JSON)
Setting up a Django/GeoDjango project with DRF
- Installing DRF
Creating our first API - Todo app API
DRF Browsable Interface

Register app in settings
Setup postgres/sqlite
- migrate & makemigrations
- create superuser
- install psycopg2-binary ( incase you want to use postgres)
Todo app creation continuation
create models
create views
create urls
create serializer
create superadmin
API Documentation - Swagger, redoc
- install drf-yasg
CORS
- django cors
Security considerations
- Bleach
Pagination
Viewsets and Routers
Authentication
- Djoser, djrest-auth
API Deployment
- Code cleanup and bug fixes
- environment variables
- logging
- Disabling DRF browsable interface
- API profiling - django debug toolbar, django silk
- Heroku -> PAAS - Platform As A Service. AWS - Amazon Web Service. Elastic BeanStalk., DO- Digital Ocean. PythonAnywhere, Google CLoud, Azure, Your Server, IBM etc
- Setup Procfile
- Serving API with Gunicorn, and static files with whitenoise
- Dockerizing
- WSGI - Web Server Gateway Interface
- Gunicorn => Nginx (Reverse Proxy) https://www.x.com <=> http://www.x.come :80 => :8000 | :443 |301
Resources to learn more:
- Django for APIs Build web APIs with Python and Django by William S Vincent
- Youtube Channel : Dennis Ivy and others...
- Official docs