Building RESTful Python Web Services


Building RESTful Python Web Services


I'm not going to review this whole book right now.  I am only interested in the first few chapters on setting up and building a Python Django application.  Both at work and in my own personal projects, I am moving away from PHP, and towards Python.

This book is very good for a beginner.  While some Python knowledge would be helpful, it is not necessary to enjoy and understand this book.  While tradeoffs must be made when writing a book, I do think the author spends more time in showing examples of how to use the API, and less time in explaining how the various pieces work.  I have been working on a API for logging data from my garden.  (https://github.com/orionsconsulting/garden_data_django).  While I have found the book easy to follow along with, and almost everything has worked, if you don't have a working knowledge of python, and django, you will have some trouble debugging your code to find out what is going on.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and I think you will too.

Chapter 1: Developing RESTful API's with Django
Chapter 2: Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked API's in Django
Chapter 3: Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Django
Chapter 4: Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django


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