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Alternative frameworks & Why Django REST framework
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Alternative frameworks
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There are a number of alternative REST frameworks for Django:
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* `django-piston <https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home>`_ is very mature, and has a large community behind it. This project was originally based on piston code in parts.
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* `django-tasypie <https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie>`_ is also very good, and has a very active and helpful developer community and maintainers.
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* Other interesting projects include `dagny <https://github.com/zacharyvoase/dagny>`_ and `dj-webmachine <http://benoitc.github.com/dj-webmachine/>`_
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Why use Django REST framework?
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The big benefits of using Django REST framework come down to:
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1. It's based on Django's class based views, which makes it simple, modular, and future-proof.
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2. It stays as close as possible to Django idioms and language throughout.
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3. The browse-able API makes working with the APIs extremely quick and easy.
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Why was this project created?
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For me the browse-able API is the most important aspect of Django REST framework.
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I wanted to show that Web APIs could easily be made Web browse-able,
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and demonstrate how much better browse-able Web APIs are to work with.
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Being able to navigate and use a Web API directly in the browser is a huge win over only having command line and programmatic
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access to the API. It enables the API to be properly self-describing, and it makes it much much quicker and easier to work with.
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There's no fundamental reason why the Web APIs we're creating shouldn't be able to render to HTML as well as JSON/XML/whatever,
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and I really think that more Web API frameworks *in whatever language* ought to be taking a similar approach.
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