django-rest-framework/docs/api-guide/routers.md

Routers

Resource routing allows you to quickly declare all of the common routes for a given resourceful controller. Instead of declaring separate routes for your index... a resourceful route declares them in a single line of code.

— Ruby on Rails Documentation

Some Web frameworks such as Rails provide functionality for automatically determining how the URLs for an application should be mapped to the logic that deals with handling incoming requests.

REST framework adds support for automatic URL routing to Django, and provides you with a simple, quick and consistent way of wiring your view logic to a set of URLs.

Usage

Here's an example of a simple URL conf, that uses DefaultRouter.

router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'users', UserViewSet, 'user')
router.register(r'accounts', AccountViewSet, 'account')
urlpatterns = router.urls

API Guide

SimpleRouter

URL Style	HTTP Method	Action	URL Name
{prefix}/	GET	list	{basename}-list
	POST	create
{prefix}/{lookup}/	GET	retrieve	{basename}-detail
	PUT	update
	PATCH	partial_update
	DELETE	destroy
{prefix}/{lookup}/{methodname}/	GET	@link decorated method	{basename}-{methodname}
	POST	@action decorated method

DefaultRouter

URL Style	HTTP Method	Action	URL Name
[.format]	GET	automatically generated root view	api-root
{prefix}/[.format]	GET	list	{basename}-list
	POST	create
{prefix}/{lookup}/[.format]	GET	retrieve	{basename}-detail
	PUT	update
	PATCH	partial_update
	DELETE	destroy
{prefix}/{lookup}/{methodname}/[.format]	GET	@link decorated method	{basename}-{methodname}
	POST	@action decorated method

Custom Routers