Build a Python REST API with the Django Rest Framework (Udemy.com)
Connect devices, front ends, other apps, and much more by creating your own REST API. Learn how in this course.
Created by: Justin Mitchel
Last updated June 2018
What you will learn
- What is an API?
- What is a REST API?
- How to build your own REST API
- A deeper understanding of Django
- A deep understanding of the Django Rest Framework
- A deep understanding of JWT and authentication with the Django Rest Framework
- Building an REST API with Python
How it compares
Against the other 72 rated Udemy courses in Django on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 15% of them
- Reviews802#28 of 73 by number of reviews
- Length10.1 hourslonger than 52% of them
- Last updatedJune 2018earlier than 87% of them
Course Description
REST APIs Power the Internet
How does Apple Maps have Yelp listings?
How does Tinder get Facebook user profiles?
How does Amazon Alexa know the latest news?
These questions get to the core of how powerful REST APIs can be: it allows for websites to communicate with each other without any human interaction.
Building a REST API isn't just about connecting with third party services, it's also about:
- Adding Authentication, Registration, Databases, and more to your Mobile App, IOT Device, TV app, Car app, and more
- Connecting your own web apps with each other
- Creating micro-services
- Adding a backend for Angular, React, iOS Apps, Android apps, and more
- Simplifying the process of separating your backend from your frontend
- Making it easier to build additional services with new developers
This course will teach you step-by-step exactly how to build a REST API
We'll cover the concepts first, then we'll go into build a PURE DJANGO REST API, then we'll use the Django REST Framework to build a REST API.
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
802 Reviews
Justin Mitchel
It all started with an idea. I wanted freedom... badly. Freedom from work, freedom from boredom, and, most of all, the freedom to choose. This simple idea grew to define me; it made me become an entrepreneur.
As I strived to gain freedom, overtime I realized that with everything that you do you can either (1) convince someone, somehow, to do it with you or (2) figure out how to do it yourself.
Due to a lack of financial resources (and probably the ability to convince people to do high quality work for free), I decided to learn. Then learn some more. Then some more. My path of learning website design started a long time ago. And yes, it was out of need not desire. I believed I needed a website for a company that I started. So I learned how to do it. The company died, my skills lived on... and got better and better.
It took me a while after learning web design (html/css) to actually start learning programming (web application, storing "data", user logins, etc). I tinkered with Wordpress, believing it could be a "user" site, but I was mistaken. Sure there are/were hacks for that, but they were hacks/work-arounds and simply not-what-wordpress-was-indended-to-be. Wordpress is for blogs/content. Plain and simple.
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Reviews
By William Tran on 10/3/2023
Would have liked if it went through setting up and connecting to a front end. Would like to see ViewSets and Routers implemented even though it was mentioned that it is on the documentation. Should include how to optimize for performance, introduce how maybe introducing raw SQL queries, select_related or prefetch_related methods, caching, throttle and rate limiting. Overall it was a good and speedy course on how DRF works.
By Timothy Matara on 10/23/2020
The course explains the concepts and the videos are good to follow along.
By Fabio Classo on 10/17/2020
Bom curso, no entanto achei a primeira parte(Pure Django API) um pouco confusa, a partir da seo 4 (Django Rest Framework) ficou maus claro.
By Dylan Alexander on 9/25/2020
In depth and right to the point.
By Shreyas H A on 9/22/2020
Need little more detailed explaination.. Just typing very quickly wont help us to learn..
By Susan Kraft-Yorke on 9/6/2020
Great energy. Good clear graphics to support lecture.
By Xavier Deleval on 9/6/2020
Very clear and easy to understand for a beginner as well as clarifying ideas for those who know already a little bit on the subject
By SST1 FINEKSUS on 9/2/2020
It could be better if there were exams and homework. sometimes the subject is passed very quickly.
By kritika goyal on 8/23/2020
very confusing, lots of things are left unexplained. The instructor just keeps on doing things without explaining the reason for doing that.
By Sudiksha Agrawal on 8/12/2020
Not understanding clearly
By Enrique Arauz on 8/11/2020
Very complete course, the instructor has the knowledge. I would have liked to see how publications are made in productive environments.
By Srinivas Ponnaboyena on 8/8/2020
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