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Django for APIs: Build web APIs with Python and Django Paperback – 10 August 2020

by William S Vincent (Author)

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Completely updated for Django 3.1 & Django REST Framework 3.11

Django for APIs is a project-based guide to building modern APIs with Django & Django REST Framework. It is suitable for beginners who have never built an API before as well as professional programmers looking for a fast-paced introduction to Django fundamentals and best practices.

In the book you'll learn how to:

Build 3 Django backends from scratch, including a Library API, Todo API, and Blog API
Connect to a React JavaScript front-end
Integrate user authentication: basic, sessions, and tokens
Add permissions and proper documentation
Use viewsets and routers for concise code

If you're curious about Python-based APIs, Django for APIs is a best-practices guide to writing and customizing your own quickly.

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"If you're looking for a guide into the world of Django, then the three-step of Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals is ideal: get up and running, get into APIs, which are a cornerstone of modern app development, and then add the bits you need to your fledging app into production, from databases and static files, to user accounts and security. It's a long road. Will's books are an awesome companion."-CARLTON GIBSON, Django Fellow and Django REST Framework core contributor

"When readers interested in web development ask me what to read next after Python Crash Course, I refer them to Will's books: Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals. I highly recommend you check out his work."-ERIC MATTHES, author of Python Crash Course

"Will's books are a fantastic resource for web development with Django and Python. I highly recommended them."-JEFF TRIPLETT, Python Software Foundation Director, DEFNA President, and REVSYS Partner

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Language : English
Paperback : 162 pages
ISBN-10 : 1735467227
ISBN-13 : 978-1735467221

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good for toy hobby sites, will not work for anything slightly more serious

10 June 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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I bought both of the author's books, this one and Django for beginners. They are both very elementary. If you are clueless and want to get into programming with Django, these will be perfect for you. They are treating the material at the middle school level, which is good for real beginners. If you want more though, you should really look around. I have also bought "Practical Django 2 and Channels 2: Building Projects and Applications with Real-Time Capabilities"
by Federico Marani on Amazon. It is a much more serious treatment of the subject, it addresses several critical details that you would need for any beyond-toy web apps. Also you eventually end up with a serious serious application. The most unfair part of Vincent's book and the other is, they are really very expensive for what they are offering. Practical Django 2 is doing everything and more for only $30, including API development, websockets(!) etc, while Vincent charges 2x$39=$78 for two really toy books. If you are into API, that already means you'll need more and this book is probably not for you. But again, if you are a clueless beginner, that might be your book.

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Up-to-date (printed on day it is ordered)

12 October 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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Here is, yet another, 5-star review.

Summary:
* Better beginner resource than official docs and other books
* Up-to-date (mine was printed on the same day that I ordered the book)
* Quick read (went through it in just a few days)

The Full Review:
When I first started to play around w/ python I remember setting up an API by following DRF's quickstart. It worked. I set an API up but I couldn't do anything w/ it. I didn't understand what was going on or what had happened behind the scenes to get this app up and running. Going through the rest of the official documentation, I realized that it's meant for people who are comfortable w/ Python and are VERY comfortable w/ Django. But if you haven't had a chance to build several production projects where you've installed and successfully configured 3rd party apps, the official tutorial can be hard to follow.

I've since had the opp to play around w/ Django a bit. I've built a few real-life apps w/ it. About a month ago I reached a pt where I needed to implement an API for one such project. I revisited the official tutorial but while I understood a lot more this time, I still felt somewhat lost.

I decided to follow an e-book that I got a few months back as part of an e-book bundle purchase I made. Everything was going great until chapter 2 when the code presented didn't work. I found that the number one complain for that book was errors in code. No good.

Searching for a DRF-specific book, I this book. I have Vincent's "Django for Beginners" book and I've found it to be the best resource for DJango by far. Knowing that I liked his way of teaching and his way of writing, I went for this book instantly. Didn't even bother to read the reviews.

The first thing to note about this book is that it is up-to-date. How new and fresh is the information in the book? The bottom part of the very last page has the print date. Mine was printed the very same day I purchased it. EVERY piece of software referenced matched the actual latest version of said software/add-on. This alone, is reason enough to purchase this book over any other.

William takes time to explain how REST works. He provides details for how requests and tokens and codes are sent back and forth from client to server. Every piece of code works and the explanation of said code is very easy to understand.

This is a quick read. Should be doable in a weekend if you've got nothing else going on. You'll be up and running a real API in no time. Better yet, you will be at a point where you can jump over to the official DRF docs. My next steps will definitely be to get a better handle on the 3rd party software used in the book (swagger, rest_auth, allauth, etc). Again, this book sets you up so that you can use all of these packages' official docs as reference... as they were intended to be used.

Buy this book if you are new to APIs, have been developing Django apps for less than a yr, or if you've set up DRF-based APIs using the official docs but still not quite sure how/why things work.

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Should be much better

21 July 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is pretty basic and it serves you well if you need an introduction. To charge $36 ($39 for the Kindle version is absurd, more expensive than paperback???) is beyond anything reasonable. He's lucky there aren't many other options out there. At first, I gave this book 3 stars, but I intended on giving it 3.5; I'm gonna be a little bit condescendent and round it to 4 because this is a good quickstart guide; but, boy, do I hate that you can't have smaller than one-star precision on these websites: I can guarantee you the power dynamics of these reviews would shift considerably if they allowed for that.

Here is what pisses me off about this book:

- Although he does cover a lot of API essential features, he dives very superficially on endpoints and basically doesn't show any Django fundamentals for how the infinite myriad of obscure inheritances occur.
- At the beginning of the book, instead of giving the reader a quickstart guide on Django, he simply dispatches us to his other book on pure Django, an overt way of self-marketing. Very annoying. I was lucky that I did have some raw Django basics already.
- In the realpython website there are some very nice tutorials with a lot of improvements and better practices, why do we have to stick to the most basic implementations in the book? Wasn't this supposed to be THE book for Django APIs?
- Where is the API design patterns and best practices chapter? Seriously, having to look for that on Google and Youtube felt absolutely underwhelming.

In the end, I'm gonna have to be at the mercy of websites like StackOverflow and the most dry and lifeless documentation that is Django REST Framework's. I'll probably end up also buying some other book like Practical Django 2 or Channels 2: Building Projects and Applications with Real-Time Capabilities, by Federico Marani; or Django RESTful Web Services: The easiest way to build Python RESTful APIs and web services with Django, by Gaston C. Hillar; which will make my budget (and experience) for my API project kind of very disappointing.

5 people found this helpful

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