Why, in 2025, do we still need a 3rd party app to write a REST API with Django? A question the predident of the DSF was asked at FOSDEM after his talk. emma.has-a.blog/articles/why... #django - ThreadSky

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emma.has-a.blog • 28 days ago

Why, in 2025, do we still need a 3rd party app to write a REST API with Django?

A question the predident of the DSF was asked at FOSDEM after his talk.

https://emma.has-a.blog/articles/why-do-we-need-an-external-app-for-rest.html

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lewoudar.bsky.social•28 days ago

When I see the amount of code you wrote to get something right. The answer is clearly yes for me 😄
I use Django Ninja, which is simple enough for this task.
And it would be nice if Django would get up to speed and offer a default solution for this task.

emma.has-a.blog•27 days ago

You r answer made me curious so I took the limits mentioned in the article and added a bit of guidance regarding inheritance and the mixin. It turns out you don't have to write the code, Claude's first answer is pretty acceptable: https://claude.site/artifacts/d7dbebf1-245d-4c88-9f83-1eb126d9e15e

emma.has-a.blog•27 days ago

By pretty acceptable I mean that, at first glance, listing records will throw an error because it is trying to render a json list (JsonResponse needs to be set as unsafe) and it is redefining get_form_class in the mixin while it shouldn't.

lewoudar.bsky.social•22 days ago

Interesting, but still not appealing to me 😄
Writing basic REST API views in 2025 should be easy enough not to depend on LLM to write one.

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