Django REST Framework Course – Build Web APIs with Python

I had a lot of fun putting this course together. I hope everyone likes it.

For those having issue with getting into virtual env, use command prompt terminal instead of powershell one.

WARNING: If you are a beginner, this tutorial is not for you. The guy kept cutting and pasting code, which is hard to follow and understand, except you have some foundation in Django and how REST web APIs work.

Your voice reminds me of Peaky Blinders.

Instead of Copying and Pasting you should tell us what is the purpose of a certain thing.

pls stop calling an example a 'course'. this was a nice video but not a course which teaches the fundamental working structure of rest_framework.

please can you build an e-commerce angular integrated with Django rest framework project?

Amazing,
Thank you :)

This is an amazing and powerful tutorial, kinda advanced and do not recommend it at all if you're learning Django or DRF

I really wish people would get over their fascination with docker. I don't want or need to learn docker, I came to learn Django Rest.

I think this is a great course. I've used django for a couple of years and this helped put things in a broader perspective. I got much more out of using Docker/Docker CLI. Great job.

It's nice to have structured steps to follow but felt like all he's doing is copying and pasting.

Just a heads up and for anyone experiencing the same issues I had, in module 3 I was getting errors when running docker-compose stating that "Package 'netcat' has no installation candidate" and that was halting the whole process. Apparently you need to change "apt-get -y install netcat" to "apt-get -y install netcat-traditional" in both of the files Dockerfile and Dockerfile_app (found in the /backend/docker/docker_files folder), this allowed the docker-compose process to complete. Not sure if it will have any reprecussions later on in the course but if it does I'll edit this comment.

Great tutorial and very informative as well KUDOS but looking at things from a beginner’s perspective, it absolutely not beginners friendly at all. I can bet the individual will practically struggle through the whole thing. Meanwhile this is exceptional. Keep up the good work.

Anyone having difficulty with this tutorial should first read the following books in the same order: Django for beginners -> Django for APIs -> Django for Professionals. You can start working on APIs with Django rest framework after reading the first 2 books. Peace!

Thank u so much.

Thank you so much for this course!

never seen a teacher worse than him

Summary:

Lets copy this code and paste it.
This is not a deep dive in to drf

i get the following error when I use 'python'. ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'. when I use 'python3' instead get no errors. should I concern about it? -> never mind. an alias for another python was in effect in venv.

Does it cover swagger docs implementation?

Good course, but it's really unfortunate you skipped over so many essential core fundamentals. It makes it harder to follow if you're new, and expects you to know a lot of about Django if you want more than a basic understanding.

I'm getting "ERROR: No matching distribution found for Django==4.1.3 (from -r backend/requirements.txt (line 2))" When I install from the requirements document. when I pip install django, I receive version 3.2.18. I hope this suffices?

Yet another course that promises to teach you stuff but only goes into its very specific area without offering more general methods

You are mapping title and description fields in the Serialzer to the name and message. But we don't have title and description fields in the Contact model. How its working?

Too much copy and pasting here and there and not enough explanation of the code ...

the clone stuff is actualy worse causing a lot of errors, just show us what to install with pip and dont complicate it ...

hello , i'm a beginner but i hade to ask ! is this the right way to implement jwt-auth in django ?
as i know a jwt token is not something you put in database ! it's a long string that is create each time a user matches the records in database . so a jwt-token will change in evry authentification . if i inderstand correctly, the jwt-token is static for each user in this exemple .
thank you :)

very helpful and instructful video! thx

So overall i like the course. Im having some major issues though. I am new to django and am getting stuck in various areas. Usually I would be able to deduce and work backwards to figure out the issues but the virtual environment/docker/massive amount of copy/paste is making it basically impossible for me to follow where my error could be. I'm sure it makes things easier and more convenient but I can't troubleshoot this at all :/

Incredible! I enjoyed the course a lot. Everything worked as expected and I managed to also start a project I wanted to do using Django APIs.

Why don't we create the signals file in the core application, if it receives signals when a record of the User table is updated or created, it wouldn't make more sense to put it in the application where the Contact model is located.

I am excited about learning this. I completed module 1 but there were two things that did not happen as shown on video.
First, after activating the virtual environment using "venv\Scripts\activate.bat" I did not see the terminal display "(venv)" leading the path. I don't know how to find out if the virtual environment was activated.
Second, after installing the packages & requirements the pip installation reported a succesful install, but the packages are not shown under the venv>>Lib\site-packages directory as shown in video.
I perform a git checkout and pull origin and results displayed 'Already up to date.'
Did I do this right?

in module one my Django, the Rest framework, and a few other things did not install. Is there anyone else having this issue?

I got a perfect tutorial. Thanks bobby!

Cool

Somehow you've managed to provide useful content in such a short period of time. Great Content, You've got a subscriber.

at the end of module 3>> my docker container "drf_course-api-1 seems to be stuck on restarting. I've pulled the exact replica files from git to make sure it wasn't my error. still the same issue. great course

thank you bobby for putting this together. I had a ton of fun building my first api ^^

Thank you so much for this course.

Can we connect to a virtual server to fetch data through django

In module 3 while running command 'docker-compose up -d --build' it shows me an error saying 'docker-compose is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program and so on.......'. What should I do in order to get rid of this error. I have tried reinstalling docker.

The beard is back!

you just messed up all the stuff with docker, you would have better explained it also, l mean the configuration.

ALLOWED_HOSTS = os.environ.get("DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS").split(" ")
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split
Module -2 while I am trying to make migrations I am getting this error. Can anybody help me this ?

Great Course really. Btw, which extension did you use for this arrows pointing towards code? It looks good :)

This video is not for beginners, u should mention that