Building & Consuming Rest Apis In Python With Django

Build professional REST APIs with Django and integrate it with React

What you'll learn

Set up your own application project in Django

Organize your Django project development and production environment

Write Django views and use routes to handle incoming requests

Create your own Django templates for your Python web API and learn to use template filters and tags

Work with RESTful APIs in Django

Quickly build clean APIs with the Django REST Framework

Design the user interface of your application using React components

Integrate Django APIs with your React frontend to build a bookmarking application

Requirements

Working knowledge of Python is required.

Description

One of the best things about Python is that it fits well into any web developer skill set. With the help of Django, Python’s high-end web framework, you can rapidly develop your own websites and build web APIs that are clean and easy to maintain, all while allowing you to integrate your Python code with powerful JavaScript frameworks. If you are a web developer who wants to build full-stack Python apps by creating APIs in Django and then integrating it with React, a frontend JavaScript framework, then go for this course.This comprehensive 2-in-1 course is a step-by-step tutorial which is a perfect course to create and learn the use of Django REST APIs to make fully-functioning Python applications. You will first set up the development environment for your application. You will then build the backend of your application by creating RESTful APIs in Django. Next, you will learn to build and use React components for designing the UI of your application, and work with React code’s data and state to determine the behavior of it. Finally, you will learn to integrate your Django RESTful APIs with the React frontend to build a complete bookmarking application.Contents and OverviewThis training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.In the first course, Building REST APIs with Python, you will delve into key aspects such as code reusability, deployment, and maintaining your application. You will learn production server configuration and bundle technologies with Python along with React to provide an end-to-end web development solution. You will learn to create REST APIs in Django.In the second course, Consuming Python APIs with React, you will start by quickly setting up your JavaScript tools and Node.js, as well as React.js for building a bookmarking application project. You will then put together your basic frontend code for interacting with your Django backend. You will also learn to build and use React components for your application's UI, and work with your React code's data and state to determine how your application behaves. Next, you will explore routing and event handling for your application. You will delve into backend interaction details, such as authentication for login. Finally, you will learn to consume your Django resources and also create, update, and delete item data. Alongwith, you will  also learn specific tasks such as managing your bookmarks and counting and collecting likes and comments on your bookmarks. By the end of this course, you will be able to build your RESTful APIs using Django and integrate it into your projects with ease. About the Authors : Wayne Merry: CPA Work Experience: - Financial Controller HOPE worldwide Australia (Development and benevolence charity) 2013-2017 and consultant to HOPE worldwide Papua New Guinea - Investment manager Mimas Lapetus Trust 2005-2012 - General Manager Merry's Specialties 2003-2004 - Trading Systems project lead Bourse Data 1998-2003 - Industrial Systems manager United Weighing Australia 1995-1998 Education: - BA App Sci (Computer Technology) 1991-1994 - Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Hnrs) 2004-2008 - Masters of Professional Accounting and Masters of International Finance (2010-2012) Interests: - Bush Search and Rescue 2009 (developed GPS field training software using Django—first used 2011, and still in use) - Third-world charity program implementation, reporting, and management - He works too hard to listen to much music, but he loves listening to techno while programming in Django!

Overview

Section 1: Building REST APIs with Python

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 The Bigger Picture

Lecture 3 Your Development Environment

Lecture 4 Installing PostgreSQL

Lecture 5 Django Projects and Apps

Lecture 6 Using the Django Development Environment

Lecture 7 MVC and MVT Framework

Lecture 8 Creating and Working with Models

Lecture 9 Migrations and Database Queries

Lecture 10 Writing Our First View

Lecture 11 Routing and HTTP Methods

Lecture 12 Using Templates

Lecture 13 Testing

Lecture 14 Exploring RESTful APIs

Lecture 15 Writing a Simple Hello World API

Lecture 16 Exploring the DRF

Lecture 17 Serializing Models

Lecture 18 Refactoring Our API with the DRF

Lecture 19 Generic Django REST Framework Views

Lecture 20 Extra Viewset Actions and Routers

Lecture 21 Testing the API

Section 2: Consuming Python APIs with React

Lecture 22 The Course Overview

Lecture 23 The Big Picture

Lecture 24 Single-Page Applications and Frontend Frameworks

Lecture 25 JavaScript Tooling and NodeJS

Lecture 26 Setting Up React

Lecture 27 Employing Components for Building Your UI

Lecture 28 Data and State

Lecture 29 Routing

Lecture 30 Testing

Lecture 31 Handling Authentication

Lecture 32 Create and Read Operations

Lecture 33 Routing and User Bookmarks

Lecture 34 Updating Bookmarks and Notes

Lecture 35 Bookmark Comments and Delete Operations

Lecture 36 Custom REST Operations

Lecture 37 Deployment Considerations

This course is for Django developers who want to have a taste of real-world full-stack development, integrating a Python backend with a React frontend.