William S. Vincent. Django for APIs. , , 2020.

The internet is powered by RESTful APIs. Behind the scenes even the simplest online task involves multiple computers interacting with one another. An API (Application Programming Interface) is a formal way to describe two computers communicating directly with one another. And while there are multiple ways to build an API, web APIs - which allow for the transfer of data over the world wide web—are overwhelmingly structured in a RESTful (REpresentational State Transfer) pattern. In this book you will learn how to build multiple RESTful web APIs of increasing complexity from scratch using Django1 and Django REST Framework2, one of the most popular and customizable ways to build web APIs, used by many of the largest tech companies in the world including Instagram, Mozilla, Pinterest, and Bitbucket. This approach is also uniquely well-suited to beginners because Django’s “batteries-included” approach masks much of the underlying complexity and security risks involved in creating any web API.