Creating powerful API's with Django Rest Framework on Heroku

What you'll learn

You will be able to develop power Restful API's with Django Rest Framework


Requirements

Basic knowledge about Django

Description

Let's do a deep diving into the Django Rest Framework with practical examples in a 100% hands on course with Python 3+, Django 2+, Django Rest Framework 3, Postman and Heroku.


We will create a full project ( Customer Base ) with all database relationships, image upload and full control on what is happening behind the scenes.

Introduction

Preparing the environment

Creating the base of the application ( Customer base app )

Setup of the Django Rest Framework

Exposing an API for the Customer Endpoint

Consuming this API with Google Chrome and Postman

Creating the Endpoint for the all entities

Personalizing the get_queryset method to provide a list of Customers with filters

Override of the behaviour for the defaults HTTP verbs (Get, Post, Put, Patch, Delete )

Creating custom actions

Using query strings

Filtering querysets with DjangoFilter backend

Enabling API search

Custom lookup field

Improving the API security with Tokens

Custom permissions per token

Nested relationships

OneToOne

ForeignKey

ManyToMany

Types of Serializers

Nested serializers

Function fields

Types of ViewSets

Enabling Pagination on your API

Deploy on Heroku

Updating versions of the application after deploy on Heroku

Who this course is for:

Students interested on development of Resfull API's