We **support**, **encourage** and **strongly favor** the creation of Third Party Packages to encapsulate new behavior rather than adding additional functionality directly to Django REST Framework.
We aim to make creating third party packages as easy as possible, whilst keeping a **simple** and **well maintained** core API. By promoting third party packages we ensure that the responsibility for a package remains with its author. If a package proves suitably popular it can always be considered for inclusion into the core REST framework.
If you have an idea for a new feature please consider how it may be packaged as a Third Party Package. We're always happy to discuss ideas on the [Mailing List][discussion-group].
Sometimes, in order to ensure your code works on various different versions of Django, Python or third party libraries, you'll need to run slightly different code depending on the environment. Any code that branches in this way should be isolated into a `compat.py` module, and should provide a single common interface that the rest of the codebase can use.
Check out Django REST framework's [compat.py][drf-compat] for an example.
### Once your package is available
Once your package is decently documented and available on PyPI, you might want share it with others that might find it useful.
#### Adding to the Django REST framework grid
We suggest adding your package to the [REST Framework][rest-framework-grid] grid on Django Packages.
Create a [Pull Request][drf-create-pr] or [Issue][drf-create-issue] on GitHub, and we'll add a link to it from the main REST framework documentation. You can add your package under **Third party packages** of the API Guide section that best applies, like [Authentication][authentication] or [Permissions][permissions]. You can also link your package under the [Third Party Packages][third-party-packages] section.
* [dj-rest-auth][dj-rest-auth] - Provides a set of REST API endpoints for registration, authentication (including social media authentication), password reset, retrieve and update user details, etc.
* [drf-psq][drf-psq] - An extension that gives support for having action-based **permission_classes**, **serializer_class**, and **queryset** dependent on permission-based rules.
* [django-rest-framework-mongoengine][django-rest-framework-mongoengine] - Serializer class that supports using MongoDB as the storage layer for Django REST framework.
* [djangorestframework-hstore][djangorestframework-hstore] - Serializer class to support django-hstore DictionaryField model field and its schema-mode feature.
* [djangorestframework-jsonapi][djangorestframework-jsonapi] - Provides a parser, renderer, serializers, and other tools to help build an API that is compliant with the jsonapi.org spec.
* [djangorestframework-queryfields][djangorestframework-queryfields] - Serializer mixin allowing clients to control which fields will be sent in the API response.
* [drf-action-serializer][drf-action-serializer] - Serializer providing per-action fields config for use with ViewSets to prevent having to write multiple serializers.
* [djangorestframework-dataclasses][djangorestframework-dataclasses] - Serializer providing automatic field generation for Python dataclasses, like the built-in ModelSerializer does for models.
* [django-restql][django-restql] - Turn your REST API into a GraphQL like API(It allows clients to control which fields will be sent in a response, uses GraphQL like syntax, supports read and write on both flat and nested fields).
* [graphwrap][graphwrap] - Transform your REST API into a fully compliant GraphQL API with just two lines of code. Leverages [Graphene-Django](https://docs.graphene-python.org/projects/django/en/latest/) to dynamically build, at runtime, a GraphQL ObjectType for each view in your API.
* [django-versatileimagefield][django-versatileimagefield] - Provides a drop-in replacement for Django's stock `ImageField` that makes it easy to serve images in multiple sizes/renditions from a single field. For DRF-specific implementation docs, [click here][django-versatileimagefield-drf-docs].
* [django-rest-multiple-models][django-rest-multiple-models] - Provides a generic view (and mixin) for sending multiple serialized models and/or querysets via a single API request.
* [djangorestframework-jsonapi][djangorestframework-jsonapi] - Provides a parser, renderer, serializers, and other tools to help build an API that is compliant with the jsonapi.org spec.
* [djangorestframework-jsonapi][djangorestframework-jsonapi] - Provides a parser, renderer, serializers, and other tools to help build an API that is compliant with the jsonapi.org spec.
* [django-url-filter][django-url-filter] - Allows a safe way to filter data via human-friendly URLs. It is a generic library which is not tied to DRF but it provides easy integration with DRF.
* [drf-url-filter][drf-url-filter] is a simple Django app to apply filters on drf `ModelViewSet`'s `Queryset` in a clean, simple and configurable way. It also supports validations on incoming query params and their values.
* [django-rest-framework-guardian][django-rest-framework-guardian] - Provides integration with django-guardian, including the `DjangoObjectPermissionsFilter` previously found in DRF.
* [cookiecutter-django-rest][cookiecutter-django-rest] - A cookiecutter template that takes care of the setup and configuration so you can focus on making your REST apis awesome.
* [djangorestrelationalhyperlink][djangorestrelationalhyperlink] - A hyperlinked serializer that can can be used to alter relationships via hyperlinks, but otherwise like a hyperlink model serializer.
* [django-versatileimagefield][django-versatileimagefield] - Provides a drop-in replacement for Django's stock `ImageField` that makes it easy to serve images in multiple sizes/renditions from a single field. For DRF-specific implementation docs, [click here][django-versatileimagefield-drf-docs].
* [django-rest-framework-braces][django-rest-framework-braces] - Collection of utilities for working with Django Rest Framework. The most notable ones are [FormSerializer](https://django-rest-framework-braces.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#formserializer) and [SerializerForm](https://django-rest-framework-braces.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#serializerform), which are adapters between DRF serializers and Django forms.
* [django-rest-framework-version-transforms][django-rest-framework-version-transforms] - Enables the use of delta transformations for versioning of DRF resource representations.
* [django-rest-messaging][django-rest-messaging], [django-rest-messaging-centrifugo][django-rest-messaging-centrifugo] and [django-rest-messaging-js][django-rest-messaging-js] - A real-time pluggable messaging service using DRM.
* [django-rest-witchcraft][django-rest-witchcraft] - Provides DRF integration with SQLAlchemy with SQLAlchemy model serializers/viewsets and a bunch of other goodies
* [django-api-client][django-api-client] - DRF client that groups the Endpoint response, for use in CBVs and FBV as if you were working with Django's Native Models..
