Does anybody have any recommendations on how to integrate AngularJS with a current Django project? I have no experience with AngularJS but I like the asynchronous loading and update of objects, so it seems time to learn. There seem to be a lot of django and AngularJS pypi apps, but is that the best way to integrate?
Any advice on AngularJS integration with Django would be great.
Thanks
you could develop REST api, which returns responses in rest format, you could use tastypie for example.
Related topic how to return in json is here Django-tastypie. Output in JSON to the browser by default
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I'm not sure what might go wrong when I have to integrate a django API (built using JsonResponse and without extra frameworks) with a frontend, in this case, Next.js.
I built a django API using JsonResponse (void of DRF). I want to build a frontend client with Next.js that would make API calls to my django API. My questions are:
Will I have to run both django and next.js servers at the same time to execute the full project?
I think I would face some challenge with csrf token, what other challenges may I face having built my API without an API framework as Django Rest Framework?
It is almost always a better approach to treat these two as separated as possible. I'd go with completely separate repos, hosting etc...
I think the biggest advantage of using DRF is the validation. DRF has nice ways to handle request data validation. Your views will look much leaner, because it will save you the trouble of writing much boilerplate code.
I've made a project using Django and Bootstrap (I plan to use React for the frontend). Then I started building REST API with DRF and it seems that my DRF views are pretty similar (if not duplicative) to my original Django views such as DetailView, UpdateView and etc.Now I wonder if I can keep my old views or should I completely replace them with DRF ones? Or should I use DRF views for CRUD and keep particular Django views?
And another qusetion: am I right that when working with Django and DRF Django becomes just an ORM provider also responsible for business logic, authentication and some other features?
Thanks.
Django is a fullstack web development framework. Here you can progress in different ways. You can use Django and ReactJS without having to develop any RestAPI. It depends on how you approach it with ReactJs.
Do you want to develop the frontend entirely with ReactJS? If so, you can develop your backend directly using DRF and consume APIs on the frontend only with React.
While developing a full stack with Core Django, if you want to make the Frontend dynamic, you can use Django and DRF together, or you can develop APIs without using DRF.
You can use DRF and Core Django together for different scenarios, or you may only need one of them. It depends on you and your project.
Edit for second question:
Django Rest Framework requires Django. Also, with Django you can do everything DRF does. By writing more code of course. This process provides many conveniences with DRF; like authentication modules, json serializers..
Trying to implement wrapper for existing REST APIS using Django graphQL.
Found similar one in JS but not in Django.
https://graphql.org/blog/rest-api-graphql-wrapper/
Could anyone please suggest if there is a GraphQL Django wrapper for REST calls. Haven't found in documentation either
Are you talking about a rest API using DRF? I'd suggest you look at graphene-django-cud to help you with mutations. Graphene-django is required for this, and will help with your queries. Unfortunately it's not a wrapper that will convert all your DRF code into graphql, however you should be able to basically copy paste a lot of the content in your serializers/views.
I'm just wondering since Jquery is used less and less and instead of classic use with Ajax, if it is possible to let for example React or Vue handle all of the functionality where Javascript would be needed with DRF in one hand , and consider all of it as statics.
And in the other hand, keep working with Django and regular templates.
i'm just asking about the possiblity to do so.
Yes. There are many tutorials available for using Django, some with Wagtail as a CMS, with DRF as the backend. You can use a single template, and Vue or ReactJS for the front-end.
Here's a workshop video that might help get you started from the folks at Learn Wagtail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUWd3o6z2bk
(I chose Wagtail, because it is a popular Django CMS with DRF API endpoints out-of-the box.)
Django rest framework is a great tool to expose data in restful protocol, but does it have a built in client that does the heavy lifting at the back to enable easy implementation in SOA architecture between different django projects?
So far I haven't found much from the django rest framework documentation, hopefully someone can shed some light on this one.
There is no "official" client for DRF, since REST-APIs mostly don't have much "heavy-lifting" as you perhaps know it from SOAP or similar techniques.
For most REST-APIs slumber is the easiest way to connect to these. It handles url-building, authentication and json-dump/load.
I recently created a package that mimics the django queryset over DRF.
django-rest-framework-queryset