Modern REST framework for Django with types and async support!

Features

• Blazingly fast
• Fully typed and checked with mypy and pyright in strict modes
• Strict schema validation of both requests and responses
• Supports pydantic2, but not bound to it
• Supports msgspec, but not bound to it
• Strict schema validation for requests and responses
• Supports async Django without any sync_to_async calls inside
• Supports openapi 3.1+ schema generation out of the box
• Supports all your existing django primitives and packages, no custom runtimes
• Great testing tools with schemathesis, polyfactory, bundled pytest plugin, and default Django's testing primitives
• 100% test coverage
• Built by the community for the community, not a single-person project
• Great docs
• No emojis 🌚️️

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Testimonials

The one thing I really love about django-modern-rest is its pluggable serializers and validators. Frameworks that are tightly coupled with pydantic can be really painful to work with.

— Kirill Podoprigora, CPython core developer

Using django-modern-rest has been a game-changer for my productivity. The strict type safety and schema validation for both requests and responses mean I spend less time debugging and more time building.

— Josiah Kaviani, Django core developer

Installation

Works for:

• СPython 3.11+
• Django 4.2+

pip install django-modern-rest

There are several included extras:

• 'django-modern-rest[msgspec]' provides msgspec support and the fastest json parsing, recommended to be always included
• 'django-modern-rest[pydantic]' provides pydantic support

Example

The shortest example:

>>> import uuid
>>> import pydantic
>>> from django_modern_rest import Body, Controller, Headers
>>> # Or use `django_modern_rest.plugins.msgspec` or write your own!
>>> from django_modern_rest.plugins.pydantic import PydanticSerializer

>>> class UserCreateModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
...     email: str

>>> class UserModel(UserCreateModel):
...     uid: uuid.UUID

>>> class HeaderModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
...     consumer: str = pydantic.Field(alias='X-API-Consumer')

>>> class UserController(
...     Controller[PydanticSerializer],
...     Body[UserCreateModel],
...     Headers[HeaderModel],
... ):
...     def post(self) -> UserModel:  # <- can be async as well!
...         """All added props have the correct runtime and static types."""
...         assert self.parsed_headers.consumer == 'my-api'
...         return UserModel(uid=uuid.uuid4(), email=self.parsed_body.email)

And then route this controller in your urls.py:

>>> from django.urls import include, path
>>> from django_modern_rest.routing import Router

>>> router = Router([
...     path('user/', UserController.as_view(), name='users'),
... ])
>>> urlpatterns = [
...     path('api/', include((router.urls, 'your_app'), namespace='api')),
... ]

Done! Now you have your shiny API with 100% type safe validation and interactive docs.

Next steps:

• The full documentation has everything you need to get started!
• wemake-django-template can be used to jump-start your new project with django-modern-rest!

License

MIT

Credits

This project was generated with wemake-python-package. Current template version is: e1fcf312d7f715323dcff0d376a40b7e3b47f9b7. See what is updated since then.