Django REST Framework: Moving Past the Tutorial to Production
summary
Practical checklist for shipping a DRF API: how to embed related fields and three concrete options for writable nested data with tradeoffs and examples; when to use different serializers for list/detail and per-user serializers plus matching queryset choices; when to use select_related vs prefetch_related and how tests count queries to catch N+1s; using rest-framework-filters, django-rest-swagger, make docs and a cookiecutter template; django-simple-history for auditing and viewset actions for model‑scoped endpoints.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 3:20Recap: Serializers
- 12:44Creating a Separate Write-only Field
- 15:01Creating a Separate Relationship Field
- 23:02The detail argument
- 27:15Documentation Options
- 30:03Bonus: useful libraries
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