Django for APIs: Build web APIs with Python and Django

Table of Contents....4 Introduction....9 Why APIs....9 Django REST Framework....10 Prerequisites....11 Why this book....11 Conclusion....12 Chapter 1: Initial Set Up....13 The Command Line....13 Shell Commands....15 Install Python 3 on Windows....18 Install Python 3 on Mac....19 Python Interactive Mode....20 Virtual Environments....21 Install Django and Django REST Framework....23 Text Editors....25 Install Git....26 Conclusion....28 Chapter 2: Web APIs....29 World Wide Web....29 URLs....30 Internet Protocol Suite....31 HTTP Verbs....32 Endpoints....32 HTTP....33 Status Codes....35 Statelessness....36 REST....36 Conclusion....37 Chapter 3: Library Website....38 Traditional Django....38 First app....41 Models....43 Admin....44 Views....47 URLs....48 Templates....49 Tests....51 Git....53 Conclusion....54 Chapter 4: Library API....55 Django REST Framework....55 URLs....57 Views....58 Serializers....59 Browsable API....60 Tests....62 Deployment....64 Static Files....66 Deployment Checklist....68 GitHub....70 Heroku....70 Conclusion....72 Chapter 5: Todo API....74 Single Page Apps (SPAs)....74 Initial Set Up....75 .gitignore....76 Models....77 Tests....80 Django REST Framework....82 URLs....83 Serializers....84 Views....86 Browsable API....87 API Tests....88 CORS....90 CSRF....92 Back-End API Deployment....92 Conclusion....97 Chapter 6: Blog API....98 Initial Set Up....98 .gitignore....99 Custom User Model....100 Posts App....105 Post Model....106 Tests....109 Django REST Framework....111 URLs....112 Serializers....114 Views....115 Browsable API....116 CORS....120 Conclusion....122 Chapter 7: Permissions....123 Project-Level Permissions....123 Create New Users....125 Add Log In and Log Out....128 View-Level Permissions....131 Custom Permissions....133 Conclusion....138 Chapter 8: User Authentication....139 Basic Authentication....139 Session Authentication....141 Token Authentication....142 Default Authentication....144 Implementing token authentication....145 Endpoints....148 dj-rest-auth....148 User Registration....154 Tokens....157 Conclusion....163 Chapter 9: Viewsets and Routers....164 User endpoints....164 Viewsets....169 Routers....170 Permissions....172 Conclusion....174 Chapter 10: Schemas and Documentation....176 Schema....177 Dynamic Schema....179 Documentation....180 Conclusion....183 Chapter 11: Production Deployment....185 Environment Variables....185 DEBUG & SECRET_KEY....187 ALLOWED HOSTS....189 DATABASES....190 Static Files....191 Pyscopg and Gunicorn....192 requirements.txt....193 Procfile and runtime.txt....194 Deployment Checklist....195 Heroku Deployment....195 Conclusion....199 Advanced Topics....199 Next Steps....200 Giving Thanks....200