Django REST with React tutorial

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Valentino Gagliardi published on his blog tutorial how to do REST with Django framework 2 and React. If you need quick API prototype quickly and is build for development speed.

Django is ideal web framework for rapid prototyping: it lets developer write less code, ship a MVP as soon as possible, provides a solid foundation for extending the project.

Tutorial focuses (among others) on:

  • Setting up a Python virtual environment, and the project
  • Bulding a Django application
  • Creating a Django model
  • Basic understanding what to test with TDD and coverage
  • Django REST serializers
  • Seeding the database

… and much more. This is lengthy tutorial with code examples provided and explained, links to further reading and Q&A from users following this tutorial. Good job!

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